{"id":21293,"date":"2015-01-28T17:14:12","date_gmt":"2015-01-28T17:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=21293"},"modified":"2015-01-28T17:14:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-28T17:14:12","slug":"evening-standard-who-said-punk-was-all-about-being-a-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/evening-standard-who-said-punk-was-all-about-being-a-rebel\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Standard: Who Said Punk Was All About Being A Rebel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/comment\/comment\/sam-leith-beware-of-ukips-glittering-gifts-prime-minister-10003088.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/comment\/comment\/sam-leith-beware-of-ukips-glittering-gifts-prime-minister-10003088.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21294 alignleft\" style=\"border: 6px solid white;\" alt=\"les15a\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/les15a.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"95\" \/><\/a>The Eighties singer Toyah Willcox has spoken up about how things were in the record industry in her day. \u201cWe were on \u00a330 a week,\u201d she says. \u201cI was weighed once a week and if I went over, even by an ounce, seven stone three pounds, I wasn\u2019t allowed to eat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s rotten. When I was seven, watching the video for Thunder In The Mountains, I don\u2019t think I\u2019d seen such an empowered-looking woman. The hair! The sneer! The chariotty thing she was sort-of-piloting! And all along she was an exploited minion of The Man.<\/p>\n<p>Will my daughter, one day, discover that Peppa Pig isn\u2019t as punk rock as she thinks? This rabbit hole goes all the way down.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/comment\/comment\/sam-leith-beware-of-ukips-glittering-gifts-prime-minister-10003088.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>London Evening Standard<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eighties singer Toyah Willcox has spoken up about how things were in the record industry in her day. \u201cWe were on \u00a330 a week,\u201d she says. \u201cI was weighed once a week and if I went over, even by an ounce, seven stone three pounds, I wasn\u2019t allowed to eat.\u201d That\u2019s rotten. When I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[680],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21293"}],"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=21293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21295,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21293\/revisions\/21295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}