{"id":2673,"date":"2026-07-08T13:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/?p=2673"},"modified":"2026-07-08T14:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:01:05","slug":"chapter-viii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/chapter-viii\/","title":{"rendered":"CHAPTER VIII"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1491\" height=\"2416\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22CHAPTER-VIII22-1.jpg\" alt=\"CHAPTER VIII\n\n\nA FEW sad hours, until the trial\nfamily to attend\nas witnesses, to the\nmockery of justice\n\n\na smiling babe,\ndreadfully murdered,\na girl of merit,\nobliterated\nand I the cause! I have confessed\na declaration\nthe ravings of a madman.\" class=\"wp-image-2674\" style=\"width:687px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22CHAPTER-VIII22-1.jpg 1491w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22CHAPTER-VIII22-1-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22CHAPTER-VIII22-1-632x1024.jpg 632w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22CHAPTER-VIII22-1-768x1244.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22CHAPTER-VIII22-1-948x1536.jpg 948w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22CHAPTER-VIII22-1-1264x2048.jpg 1264w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22CHAPTER-VIII22-1-940x1523.jpg 940w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/22CHAPTER-VIII22-1-400x648.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1491px) 100vw, 1491px\" \/><\/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\">CHAPTER VIII<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A FEW sad hours, until the trial<br>family to attend<br>as witnesses, to the<br>mockery of justice<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">a smiling babe,<br>dreadfully murdered,<br>a girl of merit,<br>obliterated<br>and I the cause! I have confessed<br>a declaration<br>the ravings of a madman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anonymous CHAPTER VIII A FEW sad hours, until the trialfamily to attendas witnesses, to themockery of justice a smiling babe,dreadfully murdered,a girl of merit,obliteratedand I the cause! I have confesseda declarationthe ravings of a madman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8216,"featured_media":2672,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","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\/2673","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=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}