{"id":27095,"date":"2016-12-24T19:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-24T19:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=27095"},"modified":"2016-12-24T19:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T19:59:00","slug":"blast-from-a-christmas-past-once-upon-a-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/blast-from-a-christmas-past-once-upon-a-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast From A Christmas Past: 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=\"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><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Christmas 1996, Toyah contributed a thoughtful recollection of childhood Christmasses to the charity publication \u2018Once Upon A Christmas\u2019. This book is now out of print.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><em>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\u2026 Once Upon A Christmas will help to put \u2013 and keep \u2013 you in the Christmas spirit.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Toyah Willcox: Broadcaster and Singer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Childhood Christmasses were the most magical &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">It was the appearance of the Christmas tree that cued two weeks of sheer all-encompassing joy. I\u2019m 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\u2026\u00a0My family home, although modest, was a castle to me and everything in it was rare and precious. But the Christmas tree was proof that Narnia, fairies, hobgoblins and fauns truly did exist. For the tree miraculously appeared overnight and it shed such light and a divine perfume. Being small, I could sit under it all evening with the glass baubles dangling in my face.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\">\u2022 Continue reading at Dreamscape\u2019s <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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 1996, Toyah contributed a thoughtful recollection of childhood Christmasses to the charity publication \u2018Once Upon A Christmas\u2019. 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":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1685],"tags":[992],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27095"}],"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=27095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27097,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27095\/revisions\/27097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}