{"id":849,"date":"2026-03-27T14:07:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=849"},"modified":"2026-03-27T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T14:07:20","slug":"champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=849","title":{"rendered":"Champions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Michael and Jalen,<br>Serena and Simone.<br>With deepest respect, <br>you can keep your Wheaties.<br><br>For me, there is only one true<br><em>Breakfast of Champions<\/em>:<br>Homemade cake, thickly frosted,<br>awaiting me patiently in the fridge.<br><br><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChampions,\u201d an ode to cake for breakfast, written March 27. Poem 086 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. Photo: &#8220;A Small Triumph: Coconut Four-Layer Cake,&#8221; by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,262,2],"tags":[409,273,405,9,232,410,361,408],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-dry-humor","category-poems","tag-athletes","tag-breakfast","tag-cake","tag-humor","tag-march","tag-short-poems","tag-spring","tag-wheaties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","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=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":851,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}