{"id":1632,"date":"2026-05-12T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T08:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:28:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:28:27","slug":"times-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1632","title":{"rendered":"Time&#8217;s Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">I find so little time for me<br>I\u2019d set aside a scant hour <br>from five to six, that's it,<br>for penning poetry.<br><br>Yet here I am <br>one ibuprofen and, <br>a bottle of ambient-temp water in,<br>and still:<br>this migraine lingers <br>on my front temple.<br><br>A cruel reminder <br>that I can\u2019t bet on <br>high performance <br>cast under a time <br>\u2014 and head \u2014 <br><em>crunch<\/em>.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTime&#8217;s Up,\u201d a short accounting of creativity under pressure, written Tuesday, May 12, poem 132 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. &#8220;Pants on the Line,&#8221; Photo by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1139,583,1142,1144,865,1138,1140,784,840,1143,1141,361,164,1137],"class_list":["post-1632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems","tag-ambient-temp","tag-creativity","tag-cruel","tag-ibuprofen","tag-may","tag-migraine","tag-penning","tag-performance","tag-poetry","tag-reminder","tag-scant","tag-spring","tag-stress","tag-time-crunch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632","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=1632"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1632\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}