{"id":310,"date":"2026-01-27T14:33:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2026-01-27T14:33:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T14:33:54","slug":"these-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"These Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">This is not our country and never was!<br>I cannot believe this \u2014<br>How could this happen now?<br>It's the first time we've seen this horror! <br>No, these things I will not say.<br><br>I'm shocked! Never did I think \u2014  <br>I mean, we are better than this!<br>This is not who we are!<br>No, these things I will not say.<br><br>You have to obey in all circumstances<br>What did they expect would happen?<br>You'd have reacted the same<br>Your rights have 'certain exceptions'<br>They deserved it <br>No, these things I will not say.<br><br>Let's go girls! Center joy.<br>Let's all buy pink coats and<br>launch an Etsy to peddle<br>#GirlBoss outrage merch.<br>Make money out of mayhem!<br>No, these things I will not say.<br><br>It was really just a small mistake<br>A split second decision<br>No one could have predicted<br>It's only now just gone a little too far<br>Please make it go back to Normal<br>Can we get back to fun memes?<br><em><strong>No, these things I will not say.<\/strong><\/em><br><br><br><br><br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese Things,\u201d a round-up of time-frayed phrases and reactions, poem 027 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo, American Flag with frayed edges at dusk, by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[20,19,22,23,28,21,29,26,25,27,24],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems","tag-america","tag-american-flag","tag-etsy","tag-girlboss","tag-history","tag-memes","tag-memory","tag-opinion","tag-outrage","tag-platitudes","tag-there-we-go-again"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","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=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}