{"id":2587,"date":"2026-07-07T15:48:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T19:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/?p=2587"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T20:35:50","slug":"the-young-man-who-understood-very-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/the-young-man-who-understood-very-little\/","title":{"rendered":"the young man who understood very little"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1846\" height=\"2560\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22the-young-man-who-understood-very-little22-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"This image shows a blackout poetry piece created from a page of Mary Shelley\u2019s \u201cFrankenstein\u201d. Select words and phrases have been cut from the page, reordered into a new poetic message, and pasted onto a patterned background. Images of planets and plants decorate the page.\" class=\"wp-image-2588\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.7210942368878538;width:687px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22the-young-man-who-understood-very-little22-1-scaled.jpg 1846w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22the-young-man-who-understood-very-little22-1-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22the-young-man-who-understood-very-little22-1-738x1024.jpg 738w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22the-young-man-who-understood-very-little22-1-768x1065.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22the-young-man-who-understood-very-little22-1-1107x1536.jpg 1107w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22the-young-man-who-understood-very-little22-1-1476x2048.jpg 1476w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22the-young-man-who-understood-very-little22-1-940x1304.jpg 940w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22the-young-man-who-understood-very-little22-1-400x555.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1846px) 100vw, 1846px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Natasha Butler-Rahman<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">the young man who understood very little<br>went into the garden and conversed in broken accents,<br>The girl met him<br>Soon after this<br>helped to relieve him of sadness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meanwhile<br>The days passed<br>bestowed on him<br>her affection and embrace<br>and opened before the stranger<br>a wide field for<br>tears of sorrow and delight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Natasha Butler-Rahman the young man who understood very littlewent into the garden and conversed in broken accents,The girl met himSoon after thishelped to relieve him of sadness. In the meanwhileThe days passedbestowed on himher affection and embraceand opened before the strangera wide field fortears of sorrow and delight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8216,"featured_media":2586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2587","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\/2587","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=2587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3113,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2587\/revisions\/3113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}