{"id":11464,"date":"2013-02-14T10:14:59","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T10:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=11464"},"modified":"2013-02-14T10:14:59","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T10:14:59","slug":"birmingham-mail-toyah-my-40-year-battle-with-insomnia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/birmingham-mail-toyah-my-40-year-battle-with-insomnia\/","title":{"rendered":"Birmingham Mail: Toyah: My 40-year Battle With Insomnia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/tv\/toyah-willcox-40-year-battle-insomnia-1316165\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/tv\/toyah-willcox-40-year-battle-insomnia-1316165\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11465\" style=\"border: white 6px solid;\" title=\"bmail13b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bmail13b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Kings Heath star reveals how acupuncture finally relieved sleeplessness torment<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Birmingham singer Toyah Willcox is sleeping soundly for the first time in decades \u2013 after revealing her 40-year battle with insomnia.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe star, who was born in Kings Heath, said she had tried everything from sleeping pills to herbal remedies in a bid to overcome the condition. But she only saw an improvement after turning to acupuncture, she said.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cWhen I was young I just regarded not sleeping as a fantastic way to pack more into my days. I always reasoned that life\u2019s so short, it seemed crazy to waste it sleeping,\u201d Willcox said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghammail.co.uk\/whats-on\/tv\/toyah-willcox-40-year-battle-insomnia-1316165\" target=\"_blank\">Birmingham Mail<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings Heath star reveals how acupuncture finally relieved sleeplessness torment Birmingham singer Toyah Willcox is sleeping soundly for the first time in decades \u2013 after revealing her 40-year battle with insomnia. \u00a0 The star, who was born in Kings Heath, said she had tried everything from sleeping pills to herbal remedies in a bid to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,27],"tags":[376],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11469,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11464\/revisions\/11469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}