{"id":366,"date":"2026-02-02T01:49:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T01:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=366"},"modified":"2026-02-04T14:20:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T14:20:44","slug":"lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=366","title":{"rendered":"Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Another Snow Day<br>I\u2019ll be kind, make a hot meal.<br>Saw through day-old baguette<br>Pain perdu. <br><br>Whisk eggs cream vanilla spice salt <br>Soak holey oblongs <br>Heat pan<br>Skate butter<br>Ferry saturated slices over to pan<br>Sizzle to satisfaction.<br><br>Child arrives<br>I sense her beside me.<br>I\u2019m making French toast!<br>I say.<br><br>No response<br>except<br>I hear<br>dry cereal hit ramekin.<br><br>For you <br>I clarify.<br>I see that<br>she parries.<br><br><em>Fickle<\/em>.<br><br>I have an abundance<br>I guess I\u2019ll meal prep.<br><br>Shuttle golden <br>crisped slabs to plate<br>Make scrambled custard <br>from remaining soaking batter.<br> <br>Sit<br>by<br>my<br>self.<br><br>Hear a rustle in the kitchen<br>See a form hover by the counter<br>Noisy mastication fills the air<br>Mmmm! She says.<br><br>Without prodding <br>she joins me at the table<br>with a plate heaped with toast and egg.<br>Thanks Mom this is great!<br><br><em>Trust the process<\/em><br><br>This morning<br>neither bread<br>nor love<br>is lost.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lost,&#8221; another snow day and morning plans temporarily gone astray. Poem 033, written February 2nd, 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":369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[54,50,40,55,51,56,52,10,53],"class_list":["post-366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems","tag-cooking","tag-french-toast","tag-kids","tag-kitchen","tag-lost","tag-mother-daughter-dynamics","tag-pain-perdu","tag-parenting","tag-snow-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366","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=366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}