{"id":98757,"date":"2024-08-11T03:15:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T01:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%b3%d0%b0-%d1%82%d0%b8-%d0%b5-%d0%bd%d0%b0%d1%98%d1%82%d0%b5%d1%88%d0%ba%d0%be\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T21:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T20:42:08","slug":"when-times-are-hardest","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/when-times-are-hardest\/","title":{"rendered":"When Times Are Hardest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1>\n\t\t\tWhen Times Are Hardest\t<\/h1>\n\tWhen times are hardest for you, when it seems<br \/>\nthat your voice is a scream, your eyes, an appeal,<br \/>\ngaze into, dive into, waters of blue-<br \/>\noh, into this freshness, this whispering.\nBreathe deep and you will feel<br \/>\nstrength and stillness growing.<br \/>\nYour eyes will light up, alive,<br \/>\nalive with youth renewing. \n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/display-case\/\">Aco \u0160opov<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/reading-room\/poetry-shelf\/merge-with-the-silence-content\/\">Merge with the Silence<\/a>, 1955<br \/>\nTranslated from the Macedonian by Christina E. Kramer and Rawley Grau, <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\t<p>Listen to the poem in Macedonian<\/p>\n\t\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u0410\u0446\u043e \u0428\u043e\u043f\u043e\u0432: &quot;\u041a\u043e\u0433\u0430 \u0442\u0438 \u0435 \u043d\u0430\u0458\u0442\u0435\u0448\u043a\u043e&quot; \/\/ Aco \u0160opov: &quot;Koga ti e najte\u0161ko&quot;\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J1e5UjYi1s8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\t\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Times Are Hardest When times are hardest for you, when it seems that your voice is a scream, your eyes, an appeal, gaze into, dive into, waters of blue- oh, into this freshness, this whispering. Breathe deep and you will feel strength and stillness growing. Your eyes will light up, alive, alive with youth&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-98757","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98757","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=98757"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98757\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102467,"href":"https:\/\/www.acosopov.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/98757\/revisions\/102467"}],"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=98757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}