{"id":4638,"date":"2012-09-03T14:48:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T18:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4638"},"modified":"2018-08-03T21:39:54","modified_gmt":"2018-08-04T01:39:54","slug":"4638","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4638","title":{"rendered":"Monday, September 3, 2012 \u2014 Farmers and Fishermen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-09-03-BLOG-Coast-road.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4686\" title=\"12-09-03 BLOG Coast road\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-09-03-BLOG-Coast-road.jpg\" alt width=\"648\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-09-03-BLOG-Coast-road.jpg 648w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-09-03-BLOG-Coast-road-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Da\u00f0i J\u00f3han\u00adnes\u00adson, the Dis\u00adtrict Com\u00admis\u00adsion\u00ader for Sn\u00e6fell\u00adsnes og Hnap\u00adpadalss\u00fds\u00adla drove me across a great part of the dis\u00adtrict. He stopped at a soli\u00adtary farm\u00adhouse to deliv\u00ader advance bal\u00adlots for the upcom\u00ading con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion\u00adal ref\u00ader\u00aden\u00addum, which will be held in Octo\u00adber.&nbsp;Along the way, we dis\u00adcussed the dis\u00adtric\u00adt\u2019s social prob\u00adlems, which con\u00adsist\u00aded, for the most part, of noth\u00ading more dra\u00admat\u00adic than a few bar fights.<!--more--> Few of the peo\u00adple in this qui\u00adet dis\u00adtrict of farm\u00aders and fish\u00ader\u00admen had cho\u00adsen to involve them\u00adselves in the cur\u00adren\u00adcy spec\u00adu\u00adla\u00adtion and bor\u00adrow\u00ading that char\u00adac\u00adter\u00adized the Cap\u00adi\u00adtal in the boom years, so not many have suf\u00adfered sig\u00adnif\u00adi\u00adcant\u00adly from the crash. Over the course of the day, I spoke with two farm\u00aders and fish\u00ader\u00adman. The fish\u00ader\u00adman start\u00aded work\u00ading at the age of thir\u00adteen, and now owns a 50-ton ship.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4688\" style=\"width: 658px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-09-03-BLOG-Stykkish\u00f3lmur1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4688\" class=\" wp-image-4688\" title=\"12-09-03 BLOG Stykkish\u00f3lmur\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-09-03-BLOG-Stykkish\u00f3lmur1.jpg\" alt width=\"648\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-09-03-BLOG-Stykkish\u00f3lmur1.jpg 648w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-09-03-BLOG-Stykkish\u00f3lmur1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4688\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stykk\u00adish\u00f3l\u00admur is a typ\u00adi\u00adcal Ice\u00adlandic fish\u00ading village.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The sheep farm\u00aders here don\u2019t use dogs.&nbsp;The sheep are tagged on the ears, then left to wan\u00adder over the mars-like land\u00adscape how\u00adev\u00ader they please.&nbsp;Come shear\u00ading time, a sort of <em>posse comi\u00adta\u00adtus<\/em> of 30\u201335 men and boys combs the moun\u00adtains, brings them in, and sorts them. I asked how many would be lost in the process: no more than two or three, usu\u00adal\u00adly from falling over cliffs, as there are no predators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-09-03-BLOG-Sn\u00e6fellsnes-Peninsula.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4691\" title=\"12-09-03 BLOG Sn\u00e6fellsnes Peninsula\" src=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-09-03-BLOG-Sn\u00e6fellsnes-Peninsula.jpg\" alt width=\"648\" height=\"486\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-09-03-BLOG-Sn\u00e6fellsnes-Peninsula.jpg 648w, http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/12-09-03-BLOG-Sn\u00e6fellsnes-Peninsula-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Da\u00f0i J\u00f3han\u00adnes\u00adson, the Dis\u00adtrict Com\u00admis\u00adsion\u00ader for Sn\u00e6fell\u00adsnes og Hnap\u00adpadalss\u00fds\u00adla drove me across a great part of the dis\u00adtrict. He stopped at a soli\u00adtary farm\u00adhouse to deliv\u00ader advance bal\u00adlots for the upcom\u00ading con\u00adsti\u00adtu\u00adtion\u00adal ref\u00ader\u00aden\u00addum, which will be held in Octo\u00adber.&nbsp;Along the&nbsp;\u2026<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/?p=4638\">Read more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,932],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-blog","category-ao-blog-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4638"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7580,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4638\/revisions\/7580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.philpaine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}