{"id":174,"date":"2026-01-16T15:33:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T15:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=174"},"modified":"2026-03-24T15:26:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T15:26:26","slug":"coat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Coat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Thirty degrees Fahrenheit<br>under freezing \u2014and falling.<br>Dress accordingly,<br>I counsel.<br><br>Mom, <em>Ugh!<\/em> That only means they<br>won\u2019t let us out at lunch<br>So I don\u2019t need a coat!<br>She counters.<br><br>Seventh grade and<br>facts are farce.<br>Fashion over<br>function, forever.<br><br>In lieu of loathsome outerwear<br>she slips on an indignant eye roll<br>drapes herself in a chill of blue skin and<br>ventures out on foot.<br><br>Bare ankles glow as they <br>bob up and down in the dark, away from me.<br>An exposed shoulder shines like a beacon<br>though it fades to grey as distance grows.<br><br>Summoning greater forces <br>from peach-flushed forest horizon<br>Under breath<br>I invoke skyward:<br><br>May her righteousness keep her warm<br>Might her indignation be a hearth.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCoat\u201d a wintertime mudroom standoff, Poem 016 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,311,200,271,2,5],"tags":[392,9,163,40,393,10,394,391,43],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-generational","category-humor","category-petty","category-poems","category-rants","tag-clothes","tag-humor","tag-january","tag-kids","tag-morning-mayhem","tag-parenting","tag-side-eye","tag-tweens","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","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=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}