{"id":1993,"date":"2026-07-04T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1993"},"modified":"2026-07-05T14:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T14:08:12","slug":"rockets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=1993","title":{"rendered":"Rockets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Happy Birthday, <br>Imperfect Union,<br>two hundred-fifty <br>years young.<br><br>The red rockets<br>trail the sky<br>over the harbor <br>above the rooflines<br>ahead of the thunder<br>and the lightning<br>moving up the coast.<br><br>We escaped the city<br>in search of calm coves<br>and fishing towns<br>and primordial berries<br>and grilled weiners<br>and zesty tomatoes<br>and loving family.<br><br>And we know, <br>we really do,<br>that we are swimming <br>in a pocket of privilege<br>that not many can feel<br>even for a day<br>but we are grateful<br>and we are bellies full<br>and stretched legs<br>and panting dogs<br>and clammy <br>hand-in-hand<br>strolling in pairs<br>down<br>a quiet rural road<br>in the dark<br>punctuated <br>by fire in the sky<br>and we are happy<br>and we are free<br>if we can keep it.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cRockets,\u201d an homage to this wild place, written Saturday, July 4, poem 185 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo, &#8220;The Rockets Red Glare,&#8221; by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1573,290,1574,1438,1572,2,666,776],"tags":[1560,1561,1774,132,1771,1591,177,1779,1576,28,220,1558,1775,1416,1780,1781,1770,134,1776,1772,1778,1559,1773,1777],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-generational-of-place","category-homage","category-lineage","category-nostalgia","category-of-place","category-poems","category-reminiscing","category-short-form-musings","tag-1560","tag-250th-anniversary","tag-coast","tag-family","tag-fishing-towns","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-generations","tag-hands","tag-happy-birthday","tag-history","tag-homage","tag-july","tag-lightning","tag-living","tag-perfection","tag-privilege","tag-rural","tag-summer","tag-thunder","tag-tomatoes","tag-union","tag-united-states","tag-weiners","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993","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=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2071,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/2071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}