{"id":1983,"date":"2025-02-27T18:39:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T23:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/?p=1983"},"modified":"2025-02-27T18:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-27T23:52:05","slug":"invent-my-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/invent-my-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"invent my absence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-5-1-650x1024.jpg\" alt=\"This image shows a blackout poetry piece with a header indicating it is page 234 of a T.S. Eliot work. Most of the words on the page are crossed out in straight black lines, with certain words remaining and with a square drawn around them. These words reveal a new poetic message. The squared words have many circles of blue, purple, and pink drawn around each of them. These circles connect and bump into each other, creating a multi-colored, bumpy shape on the page. On the bottom left of the page, there is a old black and white photograph that has been cut and pasted to feature only a woman in a sophisticated dress with gloves and a purse, holding hands with a female child who is also wearing a formal dress. There are black lines that have been drawn across both of their eyes.\" class=\"wp-image-1984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-5-1-650x1024.jpg 650w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-5-1-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-5-1-768x1209.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-5-1-976x1536.jpg 976w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-5-1-1301x2048.jpg 1301w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-5-1-940x1480.jpg 940w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-5-1-400x630.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-5-1-scaled.jpg 1626w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Unknown<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>invent my absence<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>invent <br>my absence<br>not what has happened<br>the unimportance<br>can&#8217;t<br>start<br>pretty<br>a continual<br>nightmare<br>wide awake<br>unspoken voice of sorrow<br>I am not speaking<br>I am the old house<br>and the sorrow<br>tell us as you can:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Unknown invent my absence invent my absencenot what has happenedthe unimportancecan&#8217;tstartprettya continualnightmarewide awakeunspoken voice of sorrowI am not speakingI am the old houseand the sorrowtell us as you can:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5696,"featured_media":1979,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-erasedland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5696"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1985,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1983\/revisions\/1985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}