{"id":11517,"date":"2013-02-17T14:42:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T14:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=11517"},"modified":"2013-02-17T14:42:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T14:42:24","slug":"belfast-telegraph-toyah-willcoxs-sleepless-nights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/belfast-telegraph-toyah-willcoxs-sleepless-nights\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast Telegraph: Toyah Willcox&#8217;s Sleepless Nights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/entertainment\/news\/toyah-willcoxs-sleepless-nights-29076404.html\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/entertainment\/news\/toyah-willcoxs-sleepless-nights-29076404.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11518\" style=\"border: white 6px solid;\" title=\"beltel13a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/beltel13a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new\u00a0syndicated\u00a0Toyah article, published by numerous online news resources, including\u00a0the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ukpress\/article\/ALeqM5h3XcoQ53BAmRWMmG1VekU-i6JnOg?docId=N0267571360844895049A\" target=\"_blank\">Press Association<\/a><\/strong> and the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/entertainment\/news\/toyah-willcoxs-sleepless-nights-29076404.html\" target=\"_blank\">Belfast Telegraph<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Toyah Willcox has revealed she suffered from chronic insomnia for 40 years, until she tried acupuncture.<\/p>\n<p>The singer, songwriter and actress, who&#8217;s released more than 20 albums, took sleeping pills for a time in her twenties but disliked feeling sluggish and drowsy.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;I was trying to be creative and write and perform, which was impossible when I was on those. I gave them up very quickly,&#8221; she said.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLast year, Toyah, who will star in a three-month tour of the sketch show Hormonal Housewives, became anxious about the potential health risks arising from her insomnia and so tried acupuncture.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/entertainment\/news\/toyah-willcoxs-sleepless-nights-29076404.html\" target=\"_blank\">Belfast Telegraph<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new\u00a0syndicated\u00a0Toyah article, published by numerous online news resources, including\u00a0the Press Association and the\u00a0Belfast Telegraph. Toyah Willcox has revealed she suffered from chronic insomnia for 40 years, until she tried acupuncture. The singer, songwriter and actress, who&#8217;s released more than 20 albums, took sleeping pills for a time in her twenties but disliked feeling sluggish [&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":[606,607],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517"}],"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=11517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11524,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11517\/revisions\/11524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}