{"id":739,"date":"2026-03-16T18:43:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:43:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=739"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:43:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T18:43:43","slug":"oz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=739","title":{"rendered":"Oz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">It's another<br>unhinged day <br>in Maryland \u2014<br>this time it's tornadoes.<br><br>We've had a string of oddities:<br>Friday the 13th<br>Pi Day<br>Ides of March.<br>And now: Twister Day.<br><br>Because, honestly.<br>Why not? Add it on.<br>This has been a most <br>surreal year.<br>In an uncanny decade.<br>In a strange century.<br><br>So the kids were released<br>from school three hours early<br>\u2014 another not-full-day \u2014<br>to escape the coming vortex.<br><br>I'm curious: <br>when this cyclone <br>hits our Oz, <br>who will prevail? <br><br>Will I be the airborne house? <br>Or the squished witch? <br>I don't look great in <br>black and white stripes;<br>too much contrast.<br><br>I feel I served my bad luck<br>penance yesterday, <br>so really, there's <br>no bandwidth<br>for drama today.<br><br>So come on, storm.<br>Try your best. <br>Marylanders are ready.<br>And I'm not tolerating <br>further disruptions.<br>You're dismissed.<br><br><br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOz,\u201d a musing on another unhinged day in Maryland, written March 16, poem 075 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":740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[336,337,9,40,232,228,335,267],"class_list":["post-739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems","tag-drama","tag-early-release-day","tag-humor","tag-kids","tag-march","tag-school","tag-tornado","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739","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=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}