{"id":642,"date":"2026-03-08T19:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=642"},"modified":"2026-03-14T16:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:03:19","slug":"women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">We owe our creation to women.<br>Women are why we are here.<br>Women architect our bodies; <br>build and nurture and deliver us<br>to outstretched arms<br>in a waiting world. <br><br>We owe our creation to women.<br>Women hold our ancestral wisdom<br>and carry the torch for the future.<br>Our communities are forged<br>from elders who blazed paths for us.<br><br>We owe our creation to women <br>\u2014 even those who bear<br>no children of their own \u2014 <br>those who provide the infrastructure<br>for our progress, for our purpose<br>weaving communities and holding<br>the ancient song of humanity.<br><br>We owe our creation to women<br>and yet modern society routinely,<br>pervasively, regards women <br>with abhorrence and contempt.<br><br>We owe our creation to women<br>and so we should uphold<br>and protect and cherish<br>and listen and believe<br>and amplify and elevate<br>the women of our world.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWomen,\u201d an homage to the life force of our civilization, written on International Women\u2019s Day, March 8, 2026, poem 067 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo, \u201cGoddess at the Met,\u201d by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,290,2],"tags":[218,292,177,296,294,295,293,291,70],"class_list":["post-642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-homage","category-poems","tag-creation","tag-culture","tag-generations","tag-international-womens-day","tag-matriarchy","tag-patriarchy","tag-societal-standards","tag-society","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642","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=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":717,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}