{"id":1989,"date":"2026-07-02T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1989"},"modified":"2026-07-04T13:40:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T13:40:23","slug":"m-s-g","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1989","title":{"rendered":"M.S.G."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">MSG used to mean:<br>\"monosodium glutamate\"<br>and it carried with it<br>a stigma.<br><br>And now it\u2019s code for<br>TAYLOR!!!!<br>And it's just as polarizing.<br><br>Is she?<br>                 She couldn\u2019t!<br>But is she?<br>                    It\u2019s a ruse!<br>What if she does?<br>                    Tacky!<br>Security!<br>                    Savvy!<br><br>But there\u2019s so many <br><em>Very Very Many<\/em><br>stars orbiting <br>the Burroughs<br>surely that means<br>s o m e t h i n g.<br><br>Meanwhile, I\u2019m stuck <br>in bumper to bumper<br>somewhere <br>between Stamford <br>and Bridgeport.<br><br>And the breathy <br>side-eye-slash-yearning <br>social media reports, <br>on the street POVs,<br>and Op Eds<br>on all things MSG<br>flow onto my screen<br>obliterating everything<br>like autumn leaves<br>on a windy October morn.<br><br>Madison<br>Square<br>Garden party?<br><br>Baby we can <br>shake <br>shake <br>shake it up.<br><br>Whether Umami<br>Or celebrity tsunami<br>However it shakes out<br>MSG packs a punch.<br><br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cM.S.G.,\u201d written Thursday, July 2, poem 183 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: Taylor Allison Swift, in golden frame, photo and photo composition by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,811,1573,200,1572,2,551],"tags":[1617,1609,1608,1558,1605,1607,1606,1621,1616,1615,1611,1618,1610,1613,1619,394,1612,134,1614,1604,1134,716,1620],"class_list":["post-1989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-current-events","category-generational-of-place","category-humor","category-of-place","category-poems","category-unserious","tag-autumn-leaves","tag-coy","tag-garden-party","tag-july","tag-m-s-g","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-monosodium-glutamate","tag-msg","tag-october","tag-op-eds","tag-polarizing","tag-povs","tag-ruse","tag-savvy","tag-shake-it-up","tag-side-eye","tag-stigma","tag-summer","tag-tacky","tag-taylor-allison-swift","tag-taylor-swift","tag-tsunami","tag-umami"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989","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=1989"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2011,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1989\/revisions\/2011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}