{"id":2439,"date":"2025-08-14T12:31:39","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T16:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/?p=2439"},"modified":"2025-08-14T14:26:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:26:19","slug":"to-the-unidentified-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/to-the-unidentified-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"To the Unidentified Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"692\" height=\"1086\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/08\/22To-the-Unidentified-Guest22-Unknown.png\" alt=\"This image shows an art piece made on a page of T.S. Eliot's poetry. The header identifies it as page 298. The majority of the page's words have been drawn over by black marker, with some the text left uncovered to reveal a new poetic message.\" class=\"wp-image-2440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/08\/22To-the-Unidentified-Guest22-Unknown.png 692w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/08\/22To-the-Unidentified-Guest22-Unknown-191x300.png 191w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/08\/22To-the-Unidentified-Guest22-Unknown-652x1024.png 652w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/08\/22To-the-Unidentified-Guest22-Unknown-400x628.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 692px) 100vw, 692px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Unknown<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>TO THE UNIDENTIFIED GUEST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[To <em>the<\/em> Unidentified Guest] <br>You don&#8217;t know it, do you?<br>Here&#8217;s<br><br>the only person to tell it.<br><br>You never<br><br>thought<br>I<br>belonged<br><br>With<br><br>You. But<br><br>Did <em>you<\/em> know<br>I met<br>the story<br>my story.<br><br>I<br>was there when it happened.<br><br>Do <em>you<\/em> know?<br>No.<br><br>I think.<\/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 Unknown TO THE UNIDENTIFIED GUEST [To the Unidentified Guest] You don&#8217;t know it, do you?Here&#8217;s the only person to tell it. You never thoughtIbelonged With You. But Did you knowI metthe storymy story. Iwas there when it happened. Do you know?No. I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8216,"featured_media":2440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2439","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\/2439","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=2439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2439\/revisions\/2447"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}