{"id":2233,"date":"2025-07-23T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/?p=2233"},"modified":"2025-07-23T15:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:51:47","slug":"the-cry-of-bats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/the-cry-of-bats\/","title":{"rendered":"THE CRY OF BATS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"806\" height=\"1524\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/He-_-could-hear-the-cry-of-bats._-Jen-Jabaily-Blackburn.png\" alt=\"This image shows a blackout poetry piece. The original page of text has been mostly collaged over by a silver-dotted blue paper. At the bottom of the page, a small collage has been made of torn images of a flower, a face, windows, and red rectangles. Some of the blue and silver paper has been cut out to reveal select words and phrases from the original page underneath it, creating a new poetic message against the collage.\" class=\"wp-image-2234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/He-_-could-hear-the-cry-of-bats._-Jen-Jabaily-Blackburn.png 806w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/He-_-could-hear-the-cry-of-bats._-Jen-Jabaily-Blackburn-159x300.png 159w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/He-_-could-hear-the-cry-of-bats._-Jen-Jabaily-Blackburn-542x1024.png 542w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/He-_-could-hear-the-cry-of-bats._-Jen-Jabaily-Blackburn-768x1452.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/He-_-could-hear-the-cry-of-bats._-Jen-Jabaily-Blackburn-400x756.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 806px) 100vw, 806px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Jen Jabaily-Blackburn<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>THE CRY OF BATS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>could hear the cry of bats.<br>the cry of bats?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Where there were no bats\u2026<br>he<br>is really a mine of information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as<br>such<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jen Jabaily-Blackburn THE CRY OF BATS He could hear the cry of bats.the cry of bats? Where there were no bats\u2026heis really a mine of information. assuch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8216,"featured_media":2234,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2233","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\/2233","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\/8216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2364,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2233\/revisions\/2364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}