{"id":176,"date":"2025-01-31T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2025-03-20T17:16:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T17:16:04","slug":"the-land-of-milk-and-honey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/the-land-of-milk-and-honey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Land of Milk and Honey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"223\" src=\"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/land-of-milk-and-honey2-1024x223.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-177\" srcset=\"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/land-of-milk-and-honey2-1024x223.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/land-of-milk-and-honey2-300x65.jpg 300w, http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/land-of-milk-and-honey2-768x167.jpg 768w, http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/land-of-milk-and-honey2-1536x334.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/land-of-milk-and-honey2-2048x446.jpg 2048w, http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/land-of-milk-and-honey2-600x131.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Vogues&#8217; hit 1966 hit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZL3GFeFaqMQ\">The Land of Milk and Honey<\/a> reached no. 29 in the charts.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JEujRoTXAZk\">Eddie Fisher<\/a> and other artists sang The Land of Milk and Honey from Jerry Herman&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milk_and_Honey_(musical)\">Broadway Musical Milk and Honey<\/a> which opened at The Martin Beck Theater in 1961 and ran for almost two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The Land of Milk and Honey&#8221; is a metaphor because in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bible.com\/bible\/1\/EXO.3.8,17.KJV\">third chapter of Exodus<\/a>, God called Moses to lead the slaves out of Egypt, and lead them to a land that will flow with milk and honey. The phrase &#8220;milk and honey&#8221; is often used to describe God&#8217;s generosity and provision. In the Bible, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forthillumc.com\/what-is-the-meaning-of-honey-in-the-bible\/#:~:text=In%20the%20Bible%2C%20honey%20is,flow%20with%20milk%20and%20honey.\">honey is mentioned 61 times<\/a> and is associated with abundance, health and prosperity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vogues&#8217; hit 1966 hit The Land of Milk and Honey reached no. 29 in the charts. Eddie Fisher and other artists sang The Land of Milk and Honey from Jerry Herman&#8217;s Broadway Musical Milk and Honey which opened at The Martin Beck Theater in 1961 and ran for almost two years. &#8220;The Land of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,145,147],"tags":[149,153,154,151,148,152,150],"class_list":["post-176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-honey-in-bible","category-land-of-milk-and-honey","category-songs-about-honey","tag-eddie-fisher","tag-exodus-chapter-3","tag-honey-in-the-bible","tag-jerry-herman","tag-milk-and-honey-broadway-musical","tag-the-land-of-milk-and-honey","tag-the-vogues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beeshoneyandbeeswax.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}