{"id":2472,"date":"2025-11-13T14:52:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/?p=2472"},"modified":"2025-11-13T14:55:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T19:55:16","slug":"i-am-an-old-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/i-am-an-old-man\/","title":{"rendered":"I am an old man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"2048\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/11\/I-am-an-old-man.jpeg\" alt=\"This is a blackout poem using TS Eliot's work as base text. The image is of alarge iron gate with a flame at its top. A figure kneels at the lower right of the gate.\" class=\"wp-image-2473\" style=\"width:687px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/11\/I-am-an-old-man.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/11\/I-am-an-old-man-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/11\/I-am-an-old-man-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/11\/I-am-an-old-man-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/11\/I-am-an-old-man-940x1253.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2025\/11\/I-am-an-old-man-400x533.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>By Campbell Linker<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am an old man<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>a boy, waiting<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>at the<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>gates<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>heaving<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>decayed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>head<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For wonders<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>unable to speak<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>darkness&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the juvescence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Came Christ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>flowering<\/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 Campbell Linker I am an old man a boy, waiting at the gates heaving decayed I head For wonders unable to speak darkness&nbsp; the juvescence Came Christ flowering<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5568,"featured_media":2473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2472","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\/2472","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\/5568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2474,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2472\/revisions\/2474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}