{"id":2890,"date":"2026-07-08T17:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/?p=2890"},"modified":"2026-07-08T18:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T22:01:36","slug":"i-begin-to-love-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/i-begin-to-love-him\/","title":{"rendered":"I begin \/ to love him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1520\" height=\"2383\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/I-begin-to-love-him-1.jpg\" alt=\"I begin\nto love him\nHe must have been a noble creature\nin his better days,\n\nI should find\nI should have been happy\n\nHow can I\nsee\nmost poignant grief? He is so gentle, yet so wise\n\nhow gladly I would\nsacrifice my fortune, my existence, my every hope, to\nOne man&apos;s life. death were but a small\nprice to pay\" class=\"wp-image-2891\" style=\"width:687px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/I-begin-to-love-him-1.jpg 1520w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/I-begin-to-love-him-1-191x300.jpg 191w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/I-begin-to-love-him-1-653x1024.jpg 653w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/I-begin-to-love-him-1-768x1204.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/I-begin-to-love-him-1-980x1536.jpg 980w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/I-begin-to-love-him-1-1306x2048.jpg 1306w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/I-begin-to-love-him-1-940x1474.jpg 940w, https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1055\/2026\/07\/I-begin-to-love-him-1-400x627.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1520px) 100vw, 1520px\" \/><\/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 begin<br>to love him<br>He must have been a noble creature<br>in his better days,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I should find<br>I should have been happy<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How can I<br>see<br>most poignant grief? He is so gentle, yet so wise<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">how gladly I would<br>sacrifice my fortune, my existence, my every hope, to<br>One man&#8217;s life. death were but a small<br>price to pay<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anonymous I beginto love himHe must have been a noble creaturein his better days, I should findI should have been happy How can Iseemost poignant grief? He is so gentle, yet so wise how gladly I wouldsacrifice my fortune, my existence, my every hope, toOne man&#8217;s life. death were but a smallprice to pay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8216,"featured_media":2889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2890","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\/2890","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=2890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2892,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2890\/revisions\/2892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/bdpcblackoutproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}