{"id":1620,"date":"2026-05-17T03:17:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1620"},"modified":"2026-05-17T16:36:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T16:36:25","slug":"chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1620","title":{"rendered":"Chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">\"I only just learned how to fry chicken <br>a few years ago.\" She says, <br>while lowering a plump, freshly-breaded tenderloin into <br>a hissing cast iron skillet roiling with oil.<br><br>\"My mother never cooked it at home;<br>My grandma fried chicken all the time, <br>but she never wrote down recipes.<br>Now every time I make a batch, <br>I feel compelled to take a photo\u2014<br>and share my success.\"<br><br>She says this last bit,<br>as if her triumph at the stovetop<br>won't last, that it might be <br>as fleeting as the whims of time<br>and passed-down teachings.<br><br>Her children walk in and out, <br>assessing the status <br>of waffles steaming in the iron <br>and crispy browned chicken <br>nestled next to golden rounds of waffles<br>in the warming oven.<br>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<br>I look on, silently. <br>I nod.<br>I am not concerned for her kids.<br><br>I already know this is no game of Chicken.<br>Her reclaimed culinary skill <br>and the worldly wonder of fried meat <br>atop buttery rounds dripping with local hot honey<br>won\u2019t <br>--<br>skip<br>--<br>any <br>--<br>further <br>--<br>generations.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChicken,\u201d a short scene capturing four generations in a skillet, written Sunday, May 17, poem 137 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo, &#8220;Chicken and Waffles,&#8221; by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[865,361],"class_list":["post-1620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems","tag-may","tag-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620","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=1620"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1620\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}