{"id":17988,"date":"2013-12-19T15:02:53","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T15:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=17988"},"modified":"2013-12-19T15:04:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T15:04:46","slug":"christmas-countdown-once-upon-a-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-countdown-once-upon-a-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Countdown: Once Upon A Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/libp336.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/libp336.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17989 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"ouac11a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/ouac11a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Christmas 1996, Toyah contributed a thoughtful recollection of childhood Christmasses to the charity publication &#8216;Once Upon A Christmas&#8217;. This book is now out of print.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\">In this delightful Christmas book, a host of our most popular and well-known celebrities from all walks of life have contributed stories, memories, recipes and thoughts about Christmas to make this the most irresistible festive anthology there is&#8230; Once Upon A Christmas will help to put &#8211; and keep &#8211; you in the Christmas spirit.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Toyah Willcox: Broadcaster and Singer<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Childhood Christmasses were the most magical.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">It was the appearance of the Christmas tree that cued two weeks of sheer all-encompassing joy. I&#8217;m talking about being four years old. Just able to talk but unable to comprehend the hidden meanings of the words of wisdom from the giants, the adults&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u2022 Continue reading at Dreamscape&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/libp336.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Press Archive<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 1996, Toyah contributed a thoughtful recollection of childhood Christmasses to the charity publication &#8216;Once Upon A Christmas&#8217;. This book is now out of print. In this delightful Christmas book, a host of our most popular and well-known celebrities from all walks of life have contributed stories, memories, recipes and thoughts about Christmas to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[981,863],"tags":[987,992],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17988"}],"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=17988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17995,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17988\/revisions\/17995"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}