{"id":439,"date":"2026-02-09T21:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:04:28","slug":"buffering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"Buffering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Our country and its cultures,<br>we are Buffering.<br><br>We are caught between<br>loading our future<br>and letting go of the past.<br><br>We sit, stare and wait<br>willing the clarity to come<br>and yet the picture<br>is pixelated, scrambled.<br><br>We should know that<br>a half-ready video link<br>observed with impatient eyes<br>will never load.<br><br>We could stay <br>motionless<br>and watch the <br>Loading <br>Loading <br>Loading<br>symbol spin<br>indefinitely.<br><br>Or, we could<br>push out of the chair<br>and find the path forward<br>ourselves.<br><br>The answer is out there<br>not in our screens.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBuffering,\u201d a question of next steps and outcomes. Written February 9, poem 040 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo by SB Ducey; edited by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","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\/439","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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}