{"id":414,"date":"2019-11-05T10:57:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T10:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/?p=414"},"modified":"2021-06-01T16:36:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:36:27","slug":"amalia-esposito-102-years-old-the-time-of-the-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/amalia-esposito-102-years-old-the-time-of-the-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Amalia Esposito,  102 years old<br>The time of the Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Amalia Esposito - Il tempo della terra\" width=\"1104\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VUpsjuL4r4c?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amalia Esposito was born in\nCentola on January 5, 1917. Daughter of a seamstress and midwife and a father working\nthe land, for much of her life she was a peasant. She remembers how they spent\ntheir days digging, raising animals and singing. In her account she always uses\nthe plural &#8220;we worked the land, sang, cared for animals&#8221;, as if to\nunderline that community in the rural world wins over individuality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rural lunch consisted of bread\nand cheese, while at night they often ate pasta or soup. Sometimes pasta and\nbeans. Meat &#8211; red meat &#8211; was only consumed if they had enough money to buy it;\nalternatively, they killed one of the hens that most of the rural population of\nCilento in the first half of the twentieth century possessed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mother of five children, the life\nof Amalia was made of working outside and inside her home. But she never forgot,\ndespite a busy life, to help others, especially when misery struck\nindiscriminately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The husband of Amalia had a\nvineyard to make country red wine, which was consumed daily. Amalia is the\nclearest proof that good habits last, as she is 102 and still drinks a glass a\nday!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<font size=\"2px\">Interview by: Antonio Puzzi and Rossella Galletti\n<br>Video by: Rossella Galletti and Antonio Puzzi. Editing by: Annalisa Rascato\n<br>Subtitles by: Antonio Puzzi and Rossella Galletti\n<br>Document by: Rossella Galletti \n<br>Translate by: Francesca Magnani and Rossella Galletti\n<br>MedEatResarch &#8211; Center of Social Research on the Mediterranean Diet of the University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa, head by Marino Niola and Elisabetta Moro\n<br>Created: 13-07-2019\n<\/font>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amalia Esposito was born in Centola on January 5, 1917. Daughter of a seamstress and midwife and a father working the land, for much of her life she was a peasant. She remembers how they spent their days digging, raising animals and singing. In her account she always uses the plural &#8220;we worked the land, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[347,7,159,9,416,417,360,356,395],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-living-libraries","tag-bread","tag-cilento","tag-food","tag-longevita","tag-mediterranenan-diet","tag-memory","tag-tradition","tag-war","tag-wine","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediterraneandietvm.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}