{"id":202,"date":"2006-10-31T23:49:01","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T04:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2006\/10\/31\/hell-live-in-a-grotto\/"},"modified":"2010-11-22T23:06:25","modified_gmt":"2010-11-23T04:06:25","slug":"hell-live-in-a-grotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/oddplanet\/2006\/10\/31\/hell-live-in-a-grotto\/","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;ll live in a Grotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Get this story &#8211; An Italian sociologist hopes to spend up to three years hunkered in a small, chilly underground cave in central Italy to better understand the body&#8217;s natural cycles, the daily newspaper La Repubblicareported.<\/p>\n<div class=\"b1291d92551e5c93995fce7897ccfc30\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* square 250x Oddplanet_inpost *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"7033143591\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Maurizio Montalbini, 53, moved into his new grotto home this week. 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