{"id":204,"date":"2010-10-05T01:02:23","date_gmt":"2010-10-05T08:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/?p=204"},"modified":"2015-11-03T14:02:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T21:02:58","slug":"you-cant-go-back-to-rockville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/you-cant-go-back-to-rockville\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Go Back to Rockville"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>You Can&#8217;t Go Back To Rockville<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From foreign soil,<br \/>\nYou&#8217;re flying home today.<br \/>\nTears stream from your Mother&#8217;s eyes,<br \/>\nAs she waits for your return,<br \/>\nAlone at the station of Rockville.<\/p>\n<p>Her mind savors long, lost memories.<br \/>\nHow could they all have forgotten<br \/>\nThe medals, the scholarships, the trophies?<br \/>\nAll of them, he has won<br \/>\nFor the honor of Rockville.<\/p>\n<p>The crowds are gathering.<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ve taken your resting place<br \/>\nFor another more worthy, they say.<br \/>\nYou don&#8217;t belong here, they cry.<br \/>\nYour place is outside of Rockville.<\/p>\n<p>They don&#8217;t care who you were<br \/>\nOr how far you had gone.<br \/>\nThe only thing they can see<br \/>\nIs the color before their face.<br \/>\nIt just can&#8217;t be so, but it is.<br \/>\nYou&#8217;ve fought and died for their right<br \/>\nTo keep you out of Rockville.<\/p>\n<p>copyrighted 1989, Roger Gibby<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>The title of this poem was inspired by the REM song entitled (Don&#8217;t Go Back to) Rockville. The subject matter of the poem was inspired by a movie, which I have now forgotten the title. The movie was about a black soldier (WWII I believe) &nbsp;in the south, who was a decorated war hero and died in combat. His body was being shipped back home and the townspeople would not let him be buried within the city limits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You Can&#8217;t Go Back To Rockville From foreign soil, You&#8217;re flying home today. Tears stream from your Mother&#8217;s eyes, As she waits for your return, Alone at the station of Rockville. Her mind savors long, lost memories. How could they all have forgotten The medals, the scholarships, the trophies? All of them, he has won [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[74],"class_list":["post-204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scriblings","tag-racism","count-0","even alt","author-spacecowboy","last"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2UALx-3i","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2063,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204\/revisions\/2063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dreambardo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}