{"id":685,"date":"2026-03-12T23:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T23:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=685"},"modified":"2026-03-14T16:04:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T16:04:21","slug":"freak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=685","title":{"rendered":"Freak"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">It's March twelfth and<br>yesterday it was mid-80s.<br><br>Today had other plans.<br>I drove to my meeting<br>through slushy grey rain<br>and came home to snow.<br><br>Mother Nature has pulled<br>a fast one on us all.<br><br>Back indoors, I opted<br>to steal a quiet moment<br>and absorb this freak storm,<br>this last bit of winter.<br><br>I watched as big clumps <br>of velvet flakes cascaded<br>onto verdant spruce limbs,<br>tucking into spring with a chill.<br><br>I stare out my windows steeped<br>in a private snow globe moment.<br>I know this fuzzy white blanket<br>will be gone by dinner.<br> <br>And by six,<br>it feels a dream,<br>the forest once again<br>moist and green.<br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cFreak,\u201d a note on winter&#8217;s last snow, written March 12, poem 071 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo, &#8220;Mid-day Winterland&#8221; by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2,1],"tags":[316,232,315,14,267,43],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems","category-uncategorized","tag-earnest","tag-march","tag-nature","tag-snow","tag-weather","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","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=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}