{"id":9263,"date":"2023-04-13T01:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newspaperhistory.com\/?p=9263"},"modified":"2023-04-13T01:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T05:00:00","slug":"the-road-to-homeland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/the-road-to-homeland\/","title":{"rendered":"The Road to Homeland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>From <a href=\"https:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038485\/1915-04-13\/ed-1\/seq-4\/\">The Birmingham Age Herald, April 13, 1915<\/a>. By George V. Hobart.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a big road in the city<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That they call the Great White Way,<br\/>Where the bright lights\u2014staring white lights\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Turn the night time into day;<br\/>But you\u2019re lonely when you walk it,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For you want once more to find<br\/>In the shadows, in the darkness,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That old road you left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s the old road back to Homeland,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s the outcast\u2019s only goal,<br\/>Where the ever-cruel white lights<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Throw no shadows on your soul.<br\/>It\u2019s the old road back to childhood,<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s the road you want to roam,<br\/>With the stars above to guide you\u2014<br\/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It\u2019s the road to Home Sweet Home!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Birmingham Age Herald, April 13, 1915. By George V. Hobart. There\u2019s a big road in the city&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That they call the Great White Way,Where the bright lights\u2014staring white lights\u2014&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Turn the night time into day;But you\u2019re lonely when you walk it,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;For you want once more to findIn the shadows, in the darkness,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;That old road you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-9263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-the-birmingham-age-herald","tag-george-v-hobart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desperaudio.com\/newspaperpoetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}