{"id":2741,"date":"2025-07-21T11:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T11:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.grcarrying-stones-and-water-for-construction\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:13:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:13:56","slug":"carrying-stones-and-water-for-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/carrying-stones-and-water-for-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"CARRYING STONES AND WATER FOR CONSTRUCTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">They would \u201clock\u201d the hands behind the back and load the stones onto him. <br\/>A small wooden board was secured with ropes, and they\u2019d pile the stones on top. <br\/>The large stones were carried on the \u201cn\u00f3mos\u201d (shoulder). <br\/>Animals were also used to transport stones.<br\/>They would fasten planks to the lower part of the pack saddle with ropes, then load the stones on top.  <br\/>The very large stones were rolled into place on the wall, using beams leaning diagonally against it.<\/p>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.grwp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/&#x39C;&#x395;&#x3A4;&#x391;&#x3A6;&#x395;&#x3A1;&#x39F;&#x3A5;&#x39D;&#x395;-&#x3A0;&#x395;&#x3A4;&#x3A1;&#x395;&#x3A3;-&#x39A;&#x391;&#x399;-&#x39D;&#x395;&#x3A1;&#x39F;-&#x393;&#x399;&#x391;-&#x3A4;&#x397;&#x39D;-&#x39F;&#x399;&#x39A;&#x39F;&#x394;&#x39F;&#x39C;&#x397;-1067x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2643\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They would \u201clock\u201d the hands behind the back and load the stones onto him.<br \/>\nA small wooden board was secured with ropes, and they\u2019d pile the stones on top.<br \/>\nThe large stones were carried on the \u201cn\u00f3mos\u201d (shoulder). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2644,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paintings","category-various-tasks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","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=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2742,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions\/2742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kanakisgeronymakis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}