{"id":2637,"date":"2026-09-10T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2026-09-14T00:45:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T00:45:50","slug":"harry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=2637","title":{"rendered":"Harry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">The evening crowd feels friendlier, <br>more welcoming than last night's crush in Times Square.<br>Daytime pigeon feathers strewn on concrete<br>now find their place taken by flamingo pink down, <br>drifting by a subway grate, Forrest Gump in drag.<br><br>My daughter is on the hunt, <br>tracking loose sequins to their owner.<br>I observe an unusual amount of glitter <br>and shimmer in the crowds, something's up.<br><br>Young women in neckties and cut-off button-downs.<br>Young men in platforms strewn with rhinestones.<br>And enough \"Respect Your Mother!\" <br>tees and totes to be more than a coincidence.<br><br>As I watch a circle of women<br>in leopard and black and ties<br>bounce on their heels, <br>emotions joyful.<br>Body language soft, unguarded; <br>these friends feel safe in the city.<br><br>I clock, at last, <br>the blinking-so-bright-how-did-I-miss-it <br>pixelated sign: <br><strong>\"Harry Styles, Together Together<br>\"Live at Madison Square Garden<br>\"Sold Out!<br>\"Sold Out!\"<\/strong><br><br>I may lack tickets inside,<br>but my temporary peripheral access<br>to the festivities and step-and-repeats,<br>the cheerful banter percolating from long, colorful queues <br>and the camaraderie of shared passion<br>renders me front row seat to Harry's fans. <br> <br><br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHarry,\u201d an observiation of Harry Styles fans en route to MSG for a live concert, written Thursday, September 10, 2026 poem 253 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: &#8220;Leopard spots and neck ties,&#8221; by Diana Ludwick \u00a9 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1573,1572,2,776,2353],"tags":[2855,2847,2844,2848,2846,2845,2762,2620,2851,1607,91,2852,2849,2850,2853,2856,2621,961,134,2854],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-generational-of-place","category-of-place","category-poems","category-short-form-musings","category-travel","tag-circle-of-women","tag-drag","tag-fans","tag-flamingo","tag-forrest-gump","tag-glitter","tag-harry-styles","tag-late-summer","tag-leopard","tag-madison-square-garden","tag-music","tag-neckties","tag-pink","tag-platforms","tag-respect-your-mother-2","tag-rhinestones","tag-september","tag-sequins","tag-summer","tag-together-together"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","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=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2754,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions\/2754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}