{
    "byline": "Bret Devereaux",
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    "excerpt": "This is the first part of the third part of our series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb, IVc, IVd,IVe, V) discussing the patterns of life of the pre-modern peasants who made up the great majority of all humans who lived in our agrarian past and indeed a majority of all humans who have ever lived.1 Last week, we looked at death, examining the brutal mortality regime of pre-modern societies, typified by extremely high (c. 50%) infant and child mortality, very high maternal mortality and often high male military mortality, which kept life expectancy at birth as low as the mid twenties, while life expectancy at adulthood was better \u2013 around 50 \u2013 but still very low by modern standards.",
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    "length": 40665,
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    "title": ""
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