{"id":2868,"date":"2026-07-08T17:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/?p=2868"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:59:23","slug":"justine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/justine\/","title":{"rendered":"Justine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1362\" height=\"2379\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/Justine-1.jpg\" alt=\"This image shows a blackout poetry piece with a header reading &quot;Justine&quot;, created on page 58 of Mary Shelley\u2019s \u201cFrankenstein\u201d.  The background is predominantly drawn over in a blue swirly, crosshatched pattern. Select words and phrases have been left uncovered, creating a new poetic message against the patterned background.\" class=\"wp-image-2872\" style=\"width:687px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/Justine-1.jpg 1362w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/Justine-1-172x300.jpg 172w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/Justine-1-586x1024.jpg 586w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/Justine-1-768x1341.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/Justine-1-879x1536.jpg 879w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/Justine-1-1172x2048.jpg 1172w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/Justine-1-940x1642.jpg 940w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/Justine-1-400x699.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1362px) 100vw, 1362px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By Dustin Shear<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madame Moritz,<br>a widow with four children, Justine was the third<br>the favorite of her father,<br>a strange perversity, her mother could not endure her, and<br>treated her very ill. My aunt observed this<br>Justine &#8211; twelve years of age, prevailed on her mother to live at our house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Justine,<br>received in our family learned the duties of a servant; a condition<br>which does not include the idea of ig-<br>norance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">if in an ill-<br>humor, one glance from Justine could dissipate it, for<br>she<br>looked so frank-hearted and happy. My aunt conceived a great at-<br>tachment for her,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">but you could see by her eyes<br>her disposition was gay<br>yet she paid the greatest attention to<br>every gesture of my aunt. She thought her the model<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dustin Shear Madame Moritz,a widow with four children, Justine was the thirdthe favorite of her father,a strange perversity, her mother could not endure her, andtreated her very ill. My aunt observed thisJustine &#8211; twelve years of age, prevailed on her mother to live at our house. Justine,received in our family learned the duties of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8216,"featured_media":2871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2868","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\/2868","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=2868"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2868\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}