{"id":1978,"date":"2026-06-27T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2026-07-05T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:41:08","slug":"flames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1978","title":{"rendered":"Flames"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong><em>Flames<\/em><\/strong>.<br><em><strong>Fla<\/strong><\/em><strong><em>mes <\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>on the side <\/em><\/strong><br><strong><em>of my face<\/em>.<\/strong><br><br>- Mrs. White <br>a\/k\/a <br>actress Madeline Kahn.<br><br>= = = <br>I am convinced<br>that Madeline Kahn<br>was a perimenopausal mother<br>wrangling a teen daughter<br>when she improvised <br>this epic <br>iconic <br>vivid <br>one-liner.<br><br>I won't be <br>explaining further,<br>nor will I be<br>taking questions.<br><br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFlames,\u201d written Saturday, June 27, poem 178 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: &#8220;Flames,&#8221; by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2056,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,311,290,200,1717,1438,1244,271,2,5,776,263,551],"tags":[1453,1743,1747,1742,1746,220,9,1749,1748,1751,1288,1744,1755,1745,1753,1750,1756,134,1752,1754],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-generational","category-homage","category-humor","category-loosely-hinged-2","category-nostalgia","category-perimenopause","category-petty","category-poems","category-rants","category-short-form-musings","category-snarky","category-unserious","tag-1980s","tag-clue","tag-epic","tag-flames","tag-flames-on-the-side-of-my-face","tag-homage","tag-humor","tag-i-wont-be-explaining-further","tag-iconic","tag-improvised","tag-june","tag-madeline-kahn","tag-movie-quote","tag-mrs-white","tag-one-liner","tag-perimenopausal","tag-reference","tag-summer","tag-teen-daughter","tag-very-funny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","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=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2077,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/2077"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}