{"id":1290,"date":"2026-04-26T07:32:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T07:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1290"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:37:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T02:37:12","slug":"pension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1290","title":{"rendered":"Pension"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I'm sorry my loves<br>for I am spending<br>my petite pension<br>at the pump.<br><br>Nothing will be left<br>to cruise to the Caribbean<br>in my elder years, because<br>I am paying for gas today.<br><br><em>Just skip one latte a month<\/em><br>NPR suggests, <br>during their Pledge Drive.<br>Well sorry to you all, too. <br><br>Because just driving <br>around town has me short<br>eleven Starbucks bevvies,<br>dumped in the tank in one go.<br><br>My wages, rended. <br>My savings, upended.<br>My plans? Rear-ended.<br>All by mens' toil over oil.<br><br>At this rate, I need to reset<br>my expectations like my fuel gauge.<br>Maybe I'll end up retiring<br>to the 'Strait of Vermouth.'<br><br><br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cPension,\u201d written April 26, poem 116 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo, &#8220;Pension in the Pump,&#8221; by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,811,200,2,776,263],"tags":[441,813,814,818,9,816,815,817,819],"class_list":["post-1290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-current-events","category-humor","category-poems","category-short-form-musings","category-snarky","tag-april","tag-current-events","tag-gas","tag-highway-robbery","tag-humor","tag-pension","tag-pump","tag-savings","tag-snarky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}