{"id":103595,"date":"2024-08-19T09:38:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T07:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/%d0%b4%d0%be%d0%bc%d0%be%d1%82-%d0%bda-%d1%81%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%82\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T12:04:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:04:24","slug":"%d0%b4%d0%be%d0%bc%d0%be%d1%82-%d0%bda-%d1%81%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%82","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/%d0%b4%d0%be%d0%bc%d0%be%d1%82-%d0%bda-%d1%81%d0%be%d0%bd%d0%be%d1%82\/","title":{"rendered":"The Home of the Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tThe Home of the Dream\t<\/h1>\n\tYou have condemned me to sit at home, my good friends,<br \/>\nlocked in my dark misfortune,<br \/>\nto not go out in the morning light, when dawns are exploding like red roses<br \/>\nand the whole sky is washed in the glow of flaming embers.<br \/>\nSo be it. You have condemned me to sit at home and I will sit here as long as I can;<br \/>\nI will call on those red roses, on those embers,<br \/>\nto inflame all whose bowels are cold, all who hunger for red dreams.\nYou have condemned me to sit at home and I will sit here peacefully.<br \/>\nBut where is home for the dream? Who will forbid the dream<br \/>\nto ascend higher than the morning light,<br \/>\nmore nimbly than the soft spring breezes?<br \/>\nAnd when it wears itself out, who will forbid it to sleep<br \/>\nwith the reddest, the dearest<br \/>\nof roses?\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/display-case\/\">Aco \u0160opov<\/a>, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-tree-on-the-hill-content\/\">The Tree on the Hill<\/a><\/i>, 1980<br \/>\nTranslated from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer and Rawley Grau,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/the-long-coming-of-the-fire-content\/\"><em>The Long Coming of the Fire<\/em><\/a>, Dallas, Deep Vellum, 2023.\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Home of the Dream You have condemned me to sit at home, my good friends, locked in my dark misfortune, to not go out in the morning light, when dawns are exploding like red roses and the whole sky is washed in the glow of flaming embers. So be it. You have condemned me&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":98423,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-103595","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103613,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/103595\/revisions\/103613"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}