{"id":2292,"date":"2025-07-23T14:45:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2025-07-23T14:51:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:51:18","slug":"214-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/214-2\/","title":{"rendered":"214"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"1114\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/214_-Nancy-Zigler.png\" alt=\"This image shows a collage poem created from T.S. Eliot's writing. The background is a black-and-white image of light flooding in from semicircular windows. Parts of Eliot's poems have been cut and pasted together to form a new poetic message.\" class=\"wp-image-2293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/214_-Nancy-Zigler.png 794w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/214_-Nancy-Zigler-214x300.png 214w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/214_-Nancy-Zigler-730x1024.png 730w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/214_-Nancy-Zigler-768x1078.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/07\/214_-Nancy-Zigler-400x561.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Nancy Zigler<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>214<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O far far far far in the past; I wander in a land of barren <br>boughs: I wander in a land of\u00a0<br>dry stones<br><br>How can I ever return, to the soft quiet seasons?<br>Night stay with us, stop sun, hold season, let the day not come<br>let the spring not come.<br>Can I look again at the day and its common things<br><br>We did not wish anything to happen.<br>We understood the private catastrophe,<br><br>Living and partly living;<br>The terror by night<br>The terror by day.<br><br>These acts marked a limit to our suffering.<br>Every horror had its definition,<br>every sorrow had a kind of end:<br>In life there is not time to grieve long.<br>But this, this is out of life, this is out of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is not we alone<\/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\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\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nancy Zigler 214 O far far far far in the past; I wander in a land of barren boughs: I wander in a land of\u00a0dry stones How can I ever return, to the soft quiet seasons?Night stay with us, stop sun, hold season, let the day not comelet the spring not come.Can I look&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8216,"featured_media":2293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2292","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\/2292","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=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}