{"id":296,"date":"2026-01-25T19:05:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:05:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:05:35","slug":"vigilance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"Vigil(ance)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Yes, I\u2019m up, again<br>At twenty past three<br>Hyper-vigilant, ever-anxious.<br><br>Is my body stuck in this<br>state due to hormones?<br>I try box breathing,<br>visualizing calm tides, to no relief.<br><br>An hour ago when I first stirred <br>I had crept to the window to assess the status<br>of the incoming snow storm.<br><br>I glanced, deflated, at what seemed<br>yet but a thick dusting;<br>Last morning\u2019s beignets had more powder<br>than do the bushes that line our drive.<br><br>But it\u2019s not precipitation<br>from the mega storm<br>sweeping the states <br>that has me awake and on-alert.<br><br>My mind turns and churns<br>grasping for any sense in<br>what is unfolding.<br><br>How many will never <br>have their stories told?<br>My heart hurts.<br><br>My primordial nervous system tells me:<br>Stand at attention<br>Scan the periphery <br>Don\u2019t lose focus<br>Beware of bears\u2014in battalions.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Vigil(ance),&#8221; poem 025 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","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\/296","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=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}