{"id":6170,"date":"2014-11-26T19:50:32","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T01:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6170"},"modified":"2014-11-26T19:50:32","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T01:50:32","slug":"the-looming-olive-oil-apocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6170","title":{"rendered":"The Looming Olive Oil Apocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/m.motherjones.com\/tom-philpott\/2014\/11\/looming-olive-oil-apocalypse\">Tom Philpott<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The world&#8217;s most celebrated olive oil comes from sun-drenched groves of Italy. But Italy is also a hotbed of olive oil subterfuge, counterfeit, and adulteration\u2014and has been since Roman times, as Tom Muellar showed in an eye-opening 2007 New Yorker piece (which grew into a book called Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil.)  Next year, getting real olive oil from Italy is going to be even harder than usual. Here&#8217;s the LA Times&#8217; Russ Parsons:<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;As a result of what the Italian newspaper La Repubblica is calling \u201cThe Black Year of Italian Olive Oil,\u201d the olive harvest through much of Italy has been devastated\u2014down 35% from last year. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;The reason is a kind of perfect storm (so to speak) of rotten weather through the nation:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Philpott: The world&#8217;s most celebrated olive oil comes from sun-drenched groves of Italy. But Italy is also a hotbed of olive oil subterfuge, counterfeit, and adulteration\u2014and has been since Roman times, as Tom Muellar showed in an eye-opening 2007 New Yorker piece (which grew into a book called Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6171,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6170\/revisions\/6171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}