{"id":223,"date":"2026-01-20T23:17:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T23:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2026-04-23T02:09:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T02:09:41","slug":"brisket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"Brisket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Faith is a brisket<br>You do your best to select the most suitable cut you can find<br>You summon its power through a recipe passed down from your ancestors<br>Put on the lid and cast it into darkness, and the unknown.<br><br>Faith is a brisket<br>It will test your patience, your will, your trust<br>It will feel like something is not working, that things are not progressing<br>There will be a point where you wonder if it will ever come through for you.<br><br>Faith is a brisket<br>You feel like maybe you have cast your deepest hopes on the wrong star<br>You worry if you will need to alter or even call off your plans<br>And then there it is, ready when it is ready, and not a moment before.<br><br>Faith is a brisket<br>Trust the process<br>Check in often<br>And it will come through for you.<br><br>Faith is a brisket<br>It will get us through the dark times<br>The heated moments and uncertainty of what awaits us.<br>We are not done yet.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Brisket,&#8221; a study of faith in meat form. Poem 020 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,776],"tags":[462,777,187,780,163,488,763,781,12,778,779,43],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems","category-short-form-musings","tag-ancestors","tag-brisket","tag-faith","tag-hopes","tag-january","tag-patience","tag-power","tag-process","tag-recipe","tag-trust-the-process","tag-uncertainty","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","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=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}