{"id":2270,"date":"2025-02-06T14:41:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T14:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.grweighing-with-the-xilogaidara-wooden-furniture\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T09:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T09:18:11","slug":"weighing-with-the-xilogaidara-wooden-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/weighing-with-the-xilogaidara-wooden-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"WEIGHING WITH THE &#8220;XILOGAIDARA&#8221; (WOODEN FURNITURE)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Some things that today seem simple and outdated, just a few decades ago were inaccessible to those with meager means. For example, the scale wasn\u2019t affordable, not even for the grocers. They used the balance scales (\u201ckantaria\u201d), which had a hook at the top and hung from a wooden beam carried on the shoulders of two men. Below, there was a shorter hook for hanging the item to be weighed, along with two branched chains ending in hooks to secure and hold the object tightly during weighing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/P1030553-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1198\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/P1030553-1198x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1912\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/P1030553-1198x800.jpg 1198w, https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/P1030553-599x400.jpg 599w, https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/P1030553-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/P1030553-1536x1026.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/P1030553-2048x1368.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1198px) 100vw, 1198px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some things that today seem simple and outdated, just a few decades ago were inaccessible to those with meager means. For example, the scale wasn\u2019t affordable, not even for the grocers. They used the balance scales (\u201ckantaria\u201d), which had a hook at the top and hung from a wooden beam carried on the shoulders of [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[115,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-livestock-farming","category-paintings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2270"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3876,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2270\/revisions\/3876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}