{"id":1804,"date":"2026-05-26T12:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1804"},"modified":"2026-06-02T00:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:59:13","slug":"parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1804","title":{"rendered":"Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Sometimes if you let it, <br>then the parade will come to you.<br>If you loosen your gaze, <br>drop your shoulders, <br>unclench your jaw, <br>then the magic of the world will appear.<br><br>One brisk morning, <br>in a manufactured citylet, <br>a strange sight: <br>three dogs joyriding in a convertible<br>a husky at the wheel, <br>another's elbow out the passenger side,<br>a blonde in the back, along for the escapades. <br><br>Are there humans in the midst? <br>No, yes, maybe.<br>A straw hat, a flash of shades.<br>Perhaps a person, perhaps not.<br>In any case, it's Dogs on Parade.<br>Let the revelry continue;<br>stop questioning the details.<br><br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cParade,\u201d written May 26, a moment on magic in a manufactured citylet, poem 146 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo, &#8220;Dogs on Parade,&#8221; a photo taken by Liz Ducey and re-envisioned by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,200,887,2,776,551],"tags":[1269,1271,1263,1266,1270,77,1264,865,48,1262,1265,361,1155,1267],"class_list":["post-1804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-humor","category-loosely-hinged","category-poems","category-short-form-musings","category-unserious","tag-blonde","tag-convertible","tag-dogs","tag-jaw","tag-joyride","tag-magic","tag-manufactured-citylet","tag-may","tag-morning","tag-parade","tag-shoulders","tag-spring","tag-tuesday","tag-unclench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804","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=1804"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1821,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1804\/revisions\/1821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}