{"id":648,"date":"2026-03-09T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T13:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=648"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:40:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:40:24","slug":"garlic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=648","title":{"rendered":"Garlic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">During orientation week<br>of each college semester<br>my mother the professor<br>offers as life advice to<br>the young adult students<br>in her Nutrition classes <br>a sole tip on dating:<br><br>Find someone <br>who loves you<br>who also loves <br>to eat garlic;<br>Then, eat<br>a lot of garlic<br>together.<br><br>Because, she says:<br>You will both<br>build healthy hearts<br>and strong <br>immune systems<br>and perhaps <br>prevent cancer<br>\u2014 you'll definitely stink \u2014<br>and you'll live<br>happily ever after.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cGarlic,\u201d bio-functionally-informed dating advice from a College Professor of Nutrition. written March 9, poem 068 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: &#8220;Garlic and Flowers in Aix-en-Provence,&#8221; by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,262,2],"tags":[298,299,288,297,301,300,232,69],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-dry-humor","category-poems","tag-advice","tag-college","tag-dating","tag-garlic","tag-happy","tag-health","tag-march","tag-mothers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","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=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}