{"id":2860,"date":"2011-06-22T00:31:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T00:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2016-06-22T00:36:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T00:36:48","slug":"all-gone-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/all-gone-home\/","title":{"rendered":"All Gone… Home?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While on holiday in Serbia, in Banat our car drove through village, and we were told it was once a totally German village, and now home to 26 nations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Monastry
Monastry at Mesic in Serbia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Those who held the land
\nWho built a Reich proud and true
\nAre like their great state..<\/p>\n

Where are those today
\nWho here lived before the war?
\nAll gone… home… they say.<\/p>\n

There is no German now
\nHeard spoken on the street:
\nEchoing the air<\/p>\n

On leaving the village of the twenty six nationalities, by its complexity being the exact opposite of what it was, it stayed in my brain that the monoethnicity of its origions was reinforced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While on holiday in Serbia, in Banat our car drove through village, and we were told it was once a totally German village, and now home to 26 nations. Those who held the land Who built a Reich proud and true Are like their great state.. Where are those today …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,2981,205,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-balkan-odyssey","category-haibun-2","category-serbia","category-travel-poems","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-K8","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1839,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-fall-of-the-germans-of-vrsac\/","url_meta":{"origin":2860,"position":0},"title":"The Fall of the Germans of Vrsac","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"7th June 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2RENHWS1diY The Banat Germans dispapperaered after WWII. 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