{"id":144,"date":"2025-12-02T12:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=144"},"modified":"2025-12-02T12:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T12:47:07","slug":"he-was-eventually-forced-to-leave-his-isolated-home-by-the-government-%f0%9f%92%94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"He was eventually forced to leave his isolated home by the government \ud83d\udc94"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Many of us might enjoy some quiet time on occasion, but one man took it to an extreme.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mauro Morandi was nicknamed Robinson Crusoe after spending some 32 years living on an island all by himself.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent.fpnh11-1.fna.fbcdn.net\/v\/t39.30808-6\/594067940_1283119353855717_2678288084406675477_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s640x640_tt6&amp;_nc_cat=1&amp;ccb=1-7&amp;_nc_sid=127cfc&amp;_nc_ohc=Atiu9-7UdAIQ7kNvwFh3lTp&amp;_nc_oc=Adn3XOGwZPIJIfUXuYo4vbuQqDCPAbqiovSi4HYQ-Zgxz5liauatof8rRkKO8d5toCU&amp;_nc_zt=23&amp;_nc_ht=scontent.fpnh11-1.fna&amp;_nc_gid=frnmoKyb_Dmb4P3MjsjglA&amp;oh=00_AfkdkhobYmnHxhAlolTG5ZurDurS_fbmzuOu3rY4YoCInA&amp;oe=6934AF2C\" alt=\"May be an image of one or more people, beard and text that says &quot;I l M d 0 a b he f W to a 0&quot;\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">In 1989, Morandi had been sailing his catamaran to the South Pacific when he broke down and stumbled upon the tiny island of Budelli, just off Sardinia in the Mediterranean.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">After discovering that the island\u2019s caretaker was retiring, Morandi sold his boat and took over the role.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">He would live on the island for 32 years, before being evicted by Italian authorities in 2021, and died in 2025, aged 85.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">In an interview with The Guardian, he said: \u201cI became so used to the silence. Now it\u2019s continuous noise.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us might enjoy some quiet time on occasion, but one man took it to an extreme. Mauro Morandi was nicknamed Robinson Crusoe after spending some 32 years living &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}