{"id":1523,"date":"2024-11-25T15:26:44","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T13:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoesproject.gr\/?p=1523"},"modified":"2025-04-11T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T12:30:15","slug":"postcards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoesproject.gr\/en\/postcards\/","title":{"rendered":"Postcards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postcards were a popular means of communication in the late 19th and throughout most of the 20th century. However, they still retain their artistic, historical, and collector&#8217;s value, as they document stories and evoke memories. Cards depicting landscapes, architectural features, or monuments were extremely popular, often promoting the beauty of a place in a formal way. Yet, there are moments when human desires emerge from these landscapes and monuments, like playful little sprites, infusing the scene with a sense of vitality. These silent figures become bridges to the ephemeral, transforming the postcard into a material imprint of the human experience. One such moment is captured in a postcard depicting a citizen of Xanthi, trying to catch our attention by waving his flatcap in the foreground of the city\u2019s panorama taken from the south, somewhere around 1900.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Creator: N.C.P., Wightman &amp; Co. Ltd, London<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Source: Manolis Choumas Archive<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Postcards were a popular means of communication in the late 19th and throughout most of the 20th century. However, they still retain their artistic, historical, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-old-xanthi"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesproject.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesproject.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesproject.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesproject.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesproject.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1523"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echoesproject.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/echoesproject.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1523\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesproject.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesproject.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesproject.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesproject.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}