{"id":561,"date":"2026-02-26T14:41:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T14:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=561"},"modified":"2026-03-14T15:57:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T15:57:55","slug":"muse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=561","title":{"rendered":"Muse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">This pale bust <br>of a child thinker<br>accompanies me<br>in my office<br>they linger <br>over my shoulder<br>as I lead Zoom <br>and Team meetings<br>and take calls<br>craft and process prose <br>and edit deliverables.<br>This silent Muse <br>has been with me<br>since the early aughts<br>when I inherited<br>the statue from my<br>maternal grandma.<br>She loved this piece<br>she had it in her library<br>she had often said <br>it gave her clarity<br>strength and joy<br>so I keep this child<br>with me, near me<br>in hopes that <br>I too can feel<br>inspiration from my<br>inherited and insightful<br>creative companion.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMuse,\u201d written February 26, ode to my grandma&#8217;s bust that gave her joy and direction, and the hopes that those powers will accompany me, too. Poem 057 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":313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[221,218,57,217,220,219,124,222,216,215,223,99],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems","tag-connections","tag-creation","tag-february","tag-grandmas","tag-homage","tag-honor","tag-hope","tag-inspiration","tag-lineage","tag-muse","tag-rainbows","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561","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=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}