{"id":77,"date":"2026-05-07T18:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/?p=77"},"modified":"2026-05-07T18:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:46:57","slug":"in-the-land-of-brocolli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/2026\/05\/07\/in-the-land-of-brocolli\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Land of Brocolli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-soundcloud wp-block-embed-soundcloud\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"In the Land of Brocolli by Lobster Optimus Ltd\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F2251576160&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In our flurry of coming up with children&#8217;s songs, we came up with this gem. The inspiration came from my son. Unlike most kids, he loves broccoli. I thought we should write a song titled &#8220;I Love My Broccoli&#8221;. Rather than go with the obvious, John decided to make it &#8220;In the Land of Broccoli.&#8221; The music for it is very unique. Since I play guitar and bass most of our music is based upon that. Not so here. This song is completely different. I don&#8217;t even know how to classify it. It has only four instruments; drums, tuba, clarinet and glockenspiel. It kind of sounds New Orleans and slightly &#8220;Hymn-like&#8221;. Care to classify it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lyrics by John Lister<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the land of broccoli, the sweet land of broccoli<br>The land of those giant broccoli trees<br>In the land of broccoli, the sweet land of broccoli<br>A land in winter that\u2019s covered all in cheese<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the All the farmers grow this type of vegetable<br>In the There\u2019s always room for it on your table<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At night the beautiful broccoli skies, play a silly trick upon your tiring eyes, in fact they even may hypnotize and you will fall asleep<br>The skies you see are a deep rich green and all in fact is what it seems, I think you may even have broccoli dreams when counting sheep<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the land of broccoli, the sweet land of broccoli<br>Land of which our fathers take pride<br>In the<br>You an eat your broccoli steamed or fried<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the Broccoli tastes real good with potatoes or rice<br>In the Although one day without broccoli would be nice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our flurry of coming up with children&#8217;s songs, we came up with this gem. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pickme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lobsteroptimus.com\/ltd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}