{"id":1992,"date":"2025-02-27T18:52:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T23:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/?p=1992"},"modified":"2025-02-27T19:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T00:01:22","slug":"gerontion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/gerontion\/","title":{"rendered":"GERONTION"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"669\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-6-669x1024.jpg\" alt=\"This is a blackout poetry piece on a page with a header that says &quot;Poems 1920,&quot; and a footer that indicates it is page 21 of the work. There is a border of washi tape on the page. The tape is green and black, and features triangular shapes like hills, with small doodles of flowers and leaves between the triangular shapes. There are straight black lines that go over words on the page, with the remaining words revealing a poetic message.\" class=\"wp-image-1993\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-6-669x1024.jpg 669w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-6-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-6-768x1176.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-6-1003x1536.jpg 1003w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-6-1338x2048.jpg 1338w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-6-940x1439.jpg 940w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-6-400x612.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/02\/Erased-Land-BDPC-6-scaled.jpg 1672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Unknown<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>GERONTION<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Thou hast nor youth nor age<\/em><br><em>But as it were an after dinner sleep<br>Dreaming of both.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am, <br>waiting for rain.<br>I was hot<br>in the warm<br>deep in the salt<br>My house is a<br>house,<br>the window sill,<br>patched and peeled<br>in the field<br>Rocks, moss,<br>iron,<br>the kitchen,<br>tea,<br>Sneezes at evening, poking the peevish gutter.<br>wonders.<br>a word,<br>Swaddled with darkness.<br>In May, dogwood and chestnut, flowering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Unknown GERONTION Thou hast nor youth nor ageBut as it were an after dinner sleepDreaming of both. I am, waiting for rain.I was hotin the warmdeep in the saltMy house is ahouse,the window sill,patched and peeledin the fieldRocks, moss,iron,the kitchen,tea,Sneezes at evening, poking the peevish gutter.wonders.a word,Swaddled with darkness.In May, dogwood and chestnut, flowering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5696,"featured_media":1993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1992","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\/1992","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=1992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1994,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1992\/revisions\/1994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}