{"id":90498,"date":"2019-05-09T12:05:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-09T19:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/a-pathogen-is-destroying-italys-olive-trees"},"modified":"2019-05-09T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-09T19:05:16","slug":"a-pathogen-is-destroying-italys-olive-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/a-pathogen-is-destroying-italys-olive-trees","title":{"rendered":"A pathogen is destroying Italy\u2019s olive trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-pathogen-is-destroying-italys-olive-trees2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Olive trees don\u2019t just dot the landscape in Puglia, Italy; they define it. They are so important here, in the heel of Italy\u2019s boot, that locals use words like \u201cpatrimony\u201d and \u201ccultural heritage\u201d when describing them. But what is worrying olive growers here is a disease that\u2019s killing olive trees by the millions.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Cappelli, who\u2019d been an advertising executive in New York City until a few years ago, left his job and moved to a home on the ancient Appian Way surrounded by olive trees, and entered the oil business. \u201cNot the Texas oil business; I\u2019m in the <em>real<\/em> oil business!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Today, Villa Cappelli produces about 10,000 liters of olive oil, 95 percent of it sold in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/amp\/news\/pathogen-destroying-olive-trees-in-italy-xylella-fastidiosa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olive trees don\u2019t just dot the landscape in Puglia, Italy; they define it. They are so important here, in the heel of Italy\u2019s boot, that locals use words like \u201cpatrimony\u201d and \u201ccultural heritage\u201d when describing them. But what is worrying olive growers here is a disease that\u2019s killing olive trees by the millions. Paul Cappelli, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}