{"id":513,"date":"2026-02-19T13:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=513"},"modified":"2026-02-19T15:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T15:04:52","slug":"cookie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"Cookie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">One hundred nine years ago<br>the first Girl Scout cookie was sold<br>by an enterprising Scout troop<br>in an Oklahoma school lunch room.<br><br>By 1928 eager girls went in pairs<br>selling on foot in sashes and beanies<br>spreading cheer and sugar while<br>accruing sales and confidence.<br><br>Echoing my elders, I rolled my<br>Radio Flyer wagon down streets<br>hawking Samoas and Trefoils, <br>Golden Nut Clusters and Snaps. <br><br>A generation later, now a Leader,<br>I'm still behind the booth rallying<br>with calls of \"Cookies for Sale!\" and<br>\"Support female entrepreneurs!\" <br><br>As I stomp my chilled feet, warm<br>my numb hands and focus the girls<br>on tactics, I summon eleven decades<br>of girls baking into business leaders.<br><br>How many impactful corporations<br>and organizations were founded by<br>these girls who learned negotiations<br>on local streets pushing cookies?<br><br>As my eager Scouts break a twenty<br>for a shy elder, I smile at the sweetness<br>of leaders earning dough from dough;<br>future CEOs forged from cookie cred.<br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCookie,\u201d written February 19, poem 050 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo, &#8220;Cookie Booth: a Generational Inheritance of Entrepreneurship,&#8221; by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[38,170,172,57,177,174,171,28,178,173,179,175,180,43,70],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems","tag-community","tag-cookies","tag-entrepeneurship","tag-february","tag-generations","tag-girl-scouts","tag-girls","tag-history","tag-nostalgia","tag-sales","tag-skills","tag-traditions","tag-usa","tag-winter","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","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=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}