{"id":859,"date":"2026-03-29T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2026-04-14T00:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T00:43:07","slug":"high-low","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/?p=859","title":{"rendered":"High-Low"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">Recently a speaker urged:<br>Don't judge a person by<br>their best and worst story.<br>Humans are complicated and<br>worthy of deeper consideration.<br><br>I think about my personal<br>High-Low, and I get it. <br>Those two tales, when<br>stood baldly on their own,<br>aren't 'Me,' really. <br><br>We all contain our <br>own High-Lows.<br>Our biggest shame.<br>Our highest pride.<br><br>And we also carry inside<br>all frequencies, <br>spectrums<br>and nuance in between.<br><br>May we all recall that<br>we are more than <br>our stupidest moments,<br>our pettiest thoughts,<br>and our most stubborn streaks.<br><br>May we all bask ourselves<br>in the light of curiosity<br>while we remove the halo,<br>file down the horns,<br>and hold the human <br>beneath the noise.<br><br><br><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHigh-Low,\u201d written March 29, poem 088 in a series of 365 poems written by Diana Ludwick in 2026. &#8220;Our Better Angels,&#8221; a photo  by Diana Ludwick (c) 2026 of the painting, &#8220;Coronation of the Virgin, Saints and Angels,&#8221; by Lorenzo Monaco, hanging in the Ufizzi Gallery in Florence, Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[38,419,421,418,232,420,11],"class_list":["post-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-poetry-challenge","category-poems","tag-community","tag-consideration","tag-differences","tag-judgement","tag-march","tag-opinions","tag-relationships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":879,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions\/879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dianaludwick.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}