{"id":2577,"date":"2026-07-07T15:40:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/?p=2577"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:29:46","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:29:46","slug":"i-felt-i-had","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/i-felt-i-had\/","title":{"rendered":"I felt I had"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1586\" height=\"2503\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22I-felt-I-had.22-1.jpg\" alt=\"This image shows a blackout poetry piece created on page 43 of Mary Shelley\u2019s \u201cFrankenstein\u201d. The background is predominantly collaged over with beige, brown, black, and blue papers and images. Select words and phrases have been scratched out with black pen, while others have left visible and circled for emphasis, creating a new poetic message against the collaged background.\" class=\"wp-image-2578\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.6336451022496361;width:687px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22I-felt-I-had.22-1.jpg 1586w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22I-felt-I-had.22-1-190x300.jpg 190w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22I-felt-I-had.22-1-649x1024.jpg 649w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22I-felt-I-had.22-1-768x1212.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22I-felt-I-had.22-1-973x1536.jpg 973w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22I-felt-I-had.22-1-1298x2048.jpg 1298w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22I-felt-I-had.22-1-940x1483.jpg 940w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22I-felt-I-had.22-1-400x631.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1586px) 100vw, 1586px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Anonymous<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I felt I had<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a natural talent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">for<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">scarcely ever<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">letting escape<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">my peculiar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">branch<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anonymous I felt I had a natural talent. for scarcely ever letting escape my peculiar branch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8216,"featured_media":2576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monstermash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577","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=2577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3108,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2577\/revisions\/3108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}