{"id":196,"date":"2020-09-09T12:55:43","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T12:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/?page_id=196"},"modified":"2020-09-09T12:55:43","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T12:55:43","slug":"song-of-the-prisoner","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/literary-personality\/selected-poems\/song-of-the-prisoner\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of the Prisoner"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How fearful it is to think of a bird<br>Flying to its heart\u2019s content.<br>Is this the meaning of human life?<br>To be on a mountain top where no one ever set foot, no voice ever echoed,<br>To descend like a god into a wish-stone,<br>To bang the mountains in me one against the other;<br>To step aside like a heartless god;<br>To be longed for but not gone after,<br>To be gone after but not found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>O\u011fuz Tansel<\/strong><br><em>Translated by Ays\u0131t Tansel<br>World of Tales, Elips Kitap, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How fearful it is to think of a birdFlying to its heart\u2019s content.Is this the meaning of human life?To be on a mountain top where no one ever set foot, no voice ever echoed,To descend like a god into a wish-stone,To bang the mountains in me one against the other;To [\u2026] <\/p>\n<div class=\"clear\"><\/div>\n<p><a class=\"more_link clearfix\" href=\"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/literary-personality\/selected-poems\/song-of-the-prisoner\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":14,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-full-width.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/196\/revisions\/197"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oguztansel.bilkent.edu.tr\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}