{"id":1913,"date":"2026-06-15T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2026-07-03T21:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T21:07:26","slug":"end-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1913","title":{"rendered":"End Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">To what end<br>Do you win<br>When you crush<br>When you vanquish<br>When you destroy<br>When you erase<br><br>To what end<br>Do you prosper<br>When you belittle<br>When you carve through flesh<br>Tear down trust<br>Deter and damage<br>Rip away at dignity<br><br>To what end<br>Do you prosper<br>When you inject yourself<br>With such bitter fruits?<br><br>I hope you find<br>the healing you need<br>Because beating me up<br>Is not the elixir you seek.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEnd Game,\u201d an observation of the self-defeating outcomes of hatred towards others. Written Monday, June 15, poem 166 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo, &#8220;All Fun And Games&#8221; an assortment of vintage toys, by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1941,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,290,2,5,666],"tags":[1529,1519,1518,1526,1522,1520,1521,1524,1523,1517,1250,1527,1516,1525,1288,1154,1528,575],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-homage","category-poems","category-rants","category-reminiscing","tag-are-you-ok","tag-belittle","tag-bitter-fruits","tag-carve","tag-crush","tag-damage","tag-destroy","tag-dignity","tag-elixir","tag-end-game","tag-erase","tag-flesh","tag-game","tag-help","tag-june","tag-monday","tag-questions","tag-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","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=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1948,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/1948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}