{"id":1835,"date":"2026-06-01T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2026-06-02T11:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T11:52:10","slug":"meteorological","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1835","title":{"rendered":"Meteorological"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">It is the first day of <br>Meteorological Summer<br>and that sounds important<br>so I take a midday stroll<br>through sun-dappled,<br>leafy-green-shadowed streets.<br><br>I have eleven minutes of unscripted time<br>as I wait for my lunch order at the local grill.<br><br>Basking on a splinter-free picnic bench<br>watching commerce and leisure <br>bustle around me, <br>I soak in the sunshine like a <br>maple manufacturing chlorophyll.<br><br>My phone blinks with notification;<br>meal is ready. <br>Time to return to reality.<br>I collect my take-away and turn on my heel.<br><br>While I ascend the elevator <br>up, up, up, and darkness folds in<br>my sun-warmed cheeks remind me<br>I was once wild, and it is now summer.<br><br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMeteorological\u201d written June 01, poem 152 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo, &#8220;Meteorological Summer&#8221; by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1837,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[1288,1300,134,267],"class_list":["post-1835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems","tag-june","tag-next-chapter","tag-summer","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835","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=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1839,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions\/1839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}