{"id":1625,"date":"2026-05-14T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T05:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2026-05-18T11:12:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:12:45","slug":"macaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1625","title":{"rendered":"Macaw"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The Scarlet Macaw sways above me<br>its dramatic shadow catches my eye.<br>Eyes, in turn, are all on this festive bird,<br>mine, and larger-than-life ones <br>that stare out, unblinkingly.<br><br>I'm not quite sure what I stumbled into<br>off the streets of Washington, D.C., <br>but I know that the scents wafting <br>from the tables that surround me <br>are making me hungry.<br><br>\"We can't seat you until 8:30 \u2014<br>Unless you sit on the Patio.\"<br>It's just past six, so we nod, <br>\"Yes, yes, please,\" <br>and wait for our server to <br>guide us through the busy venue.<br><br>The restaurant is a riot <br>of colors, shapes, textures, as if <br>Main Character Energy was a place.<br>Suede-covered menus, <br>velvet swivel stools, <br>brass bands, <br>checker-striped wicker benches.<br><br>We take our seats, <br>already lost in the wilderness <br>of this restaurateur's creation.<br>They had us at the scarlet macaws.<br>Anything yet to come <br>will be the Chamoy on top.<br><br> <\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMacaw,\u201d a short poem on a diorama, written Thursday, May 14, poem 134 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: &#8220;All Eyes on the Scarlet Macaw&#8221; by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,262,2,776,551],"tags":[327,726,1149,1152,1148,1146,865,1153,1150,1147,361,1151,867],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-dry-humor","category-poems","category-short-form-musings","category-unserious","tag-art","tag-d-c","tag-diorama","tag-el-presidente","tag-eyes","tag-macaw","tag-may","tag-patio","tag-restaurant","tag-scarlet-macaw","tag-spring","tag-stranger-than-fiction","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","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=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}