{"id":15504,"date":"2013-07-20T17:16:46","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T16:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=15504"},"modified":"2013-07-20T17:17:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T16:17:28","slug":"bbc-news-birmingham-my-kinda-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/bbc-news-birmingham-my-kinda-town\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC News: &#8216;My Kinda Town&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Birmingham&#8217;s well known landmarks<\/strong>: But for a city so linked to heavy metal, many sounds have left its clubs to find fans aroud the globe. In the 1980s in particular, Birmingham bands were among the biggest around. While Toyah found fame in post-punk pop, UB40 were at the forefront of British reggae and Duran Duran became the biggest band on the planet.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-23346131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-birmingham-23346131\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15505\" alt=\"bbcnews13b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bbcnews13b.jpg\" width=\"620\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bbcnews13b.jpg 620w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bbcnews13b-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bbcnews13b-70x50.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Birmingham&#8217;s well known landmarks: But for a city so linked to heavy metal, many sounds have left its clubs to find fans aroud the globe. In the 1980s in particular, Birmingham bands were among the biggest around. While Toyah found fame in post-punk pop, UB40 were at the forefront of British reggae and Duran Duran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[863,27],"tags":[903,546,211,904],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504"}],"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=15504"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15515,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15504\/revisions\/15515"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}