{"id":4703,"date":"2025-10-09T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T19:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2025-10-09T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T18:55:30","slug":"the-bartering-economy-is-thriving-on-this-greek-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/the-bartering-economy-is-thriving-on-this-greek-island\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Bartering Economy&#8217; is Thriving on this Greek Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ikaria, an island in the Aegean\u00a0Sea\u00a0about seven hours east of Athens,\u00a0operates\u00a0on a barter economy, but\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0not just about\u00a0avoiding\u00a0money. \u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0about resisting the kind of detachment that money can create.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What It\u2019s Like to Trade for Food and Lodging on Greece\u2019s Bartering Island<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/travel\/nation\/ikaria-greece-barter-island\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/travel\/nation\/ikaria-greece-barter-island\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9798991413459\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ikaria, an island in the Aegean\u00a0Sea\u00a0about seven hours east of Athens,\u00a0operates\u00a0on a barter economy, but\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0not just about\u00a0avoiding\u00a0money. \u00a0It\u2019s\u00a0about resisting the kind of detachment that money can create. What It\u2019s Like to Trade for Food and Lodging on Greece\u2019s Bartering Island https:\/\/www.thrillist.com\/travel\/nation\/ikaria-greece-barter-island\u00a0\u00a0 Related Reading<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,53,63,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-lifestyle","category-global","category-social-justice","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4794,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/4794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}