{"id":280,"date":"2026-01-23T19:31:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=280"},"modified":"2026-01-23T19:31:51","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T19:31:51","slug":"common-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"Common Ground"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Today I will teach a gaggle of tweens<br>How to \u201cFind Common Ground.\u201d<br><br>I will explain the concept of <br>Collaborative mediation.<br><br>I will demonstrate the elements<br>Of a respectful debate.<br><br>I will delineate between <br>Facts and opinions.<br><br>I will distinguish<br>Personhood from belief.<br><br>We will practice <br>Coming to consensus.<br><br>We will learn about <br>Majority rules and compromise.<br><br>We will make promises<br>About how to act as citizens.<br><br>We will set intentions<br>For being stewards of the world.<br><br>And through all of this<br>On the streets of our cities<br><br>A vastly different reality<br>Unravels and defies. <br><br>I can teach Common Ground<br>But can we all live it? <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Common Ground,&#8221; a question on teaching versus living our values. Poem 023 in a series of 365 written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","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=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}