{"id":51557,"date":"2026-07-12T18:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/?p=51557"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:43:15","slug":"in-my-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.westbendnews.net\/autonews\/in-my-era\/","title":{"rendered":"IN MY ERA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Penny for Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLong ago and far away, In a land that time forgot, <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBefore the days of Dylan, Or the dawn of Camelot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere lived a race of innocents, And they were you and me, Long ago and far away<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the Land That Made Me, Me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOh, there was truth and goodness In that land where we were born<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhere navels were for oranges, And Peyton Place was porn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor Ike was in the White House, And Hoss was on TV, and God was in His heaven n the Land That Made Me, Me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe learned to gut a muffler, We washed our hair at dawn, We spread our crinolines to dry In circles on the lawn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd they could hear us coming<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll the way to Tennessee, All starched and sprayed and rumbling In the Land That Made Me, Me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe longed for love and romance, And waited for the prince, And Eddie Fisher married Liz, And no one’s seen him since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe danced to \u201cLittle Darlin\u201d, And Sang to \u201cStagger Lee\u201d And cried for Buddy Holly In the Land That Made Me, Me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnly girls wore earrings then, And three was one too many, And only boys wore flat-top cuts, Except for Jean McKinney.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd only in our wildest dreams<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDid we expect to see?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA boy named George with Lipstick, In the Land That Made Me, Me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe fell for Frankie Avalon, Annette was oh, so nice, and when they made a movie they never made it twice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t have a Star Trek Five, Or Psycho Two and Three, Or Rocky-Rambo Twenty In the Land That Made Me, Me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMiss Kitty had a heart of gold, And Chester had a limp, And Reagan was a Democrat Whose co-star was a chimp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had a Mr. Wizard, But not a Mr. T, And Oprah couldn’t talk, yet In the Land That Made Me, Me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had our share of heroes, We never thought they’d go, At least not Bobby Darin, Or Marilyn Monroe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor youth was still eternal, And life was yet to be, And Elvis was forever,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the Land That Made Me, Me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019d never seen the rock band That was Grateful to be Dead,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd Airplanes weren\u2019t named Jefferson, And Zeppelins weren\u2019t Led.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAnd Beatles lived in gardens then, And Monkees in a tree, Madonna was a virgin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIn the Land That Made Me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I ran into this poem and really liked it. There will be a Part 2 next week. Enjoy this poem and I will give you a Penny For Your Thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Penny for Your Thoughts By: Nancy Whitaker \u201cLong ago and far away, In a land that time forgot,  \u201cBefore the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":48900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[25,12771],"tags":[29391,29392,12838,12839],"class_list":["post-51557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-pennies-for-your-thoughts","tag-in-my-era","tag-in-the-land-that-made-me-me","tag-nancy-whitaker","tag-penny-for-your-thoughts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t