{"id":32060,"date":"2019-10-29T16:47:40","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T16:47:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/?p=32060"},"modified":"2019-10-29T16:51:02","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T16:51:02","slug":"post-punk-monk-record-review-sheep-farming-in-barnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/post-punk-monk-record-review-sheep-farming-in-barnet\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Punk Monk: Record Review &#8211; Sheep Farming in Barnet UK 7&#8243;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/postpunkmonk.com\/2019\/10\/22\/record-review-toyah-sheep-farming-in-barnet-uk-7-ep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/postpunkmonk.com\/2019\/10\/22\/record-review-toyah-sheep-farming-in-barnet-uk-7-ep\/ noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-32061 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sfibep19a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sfibep19a.jpg 220w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/sfibep19a-144x144.jpg 144w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>I was barely familiar with Toyah from seeing a review of \u201cAnthem\u201d in the pages of \u201cDogfood,\u201d our local New Wave newspaper that was published by Record Mart chain in Orlando in the late 70s\/early 80s. The positive review piqued by interest as it was written by Robin Shurtz; a guy I knew from teaching English at my junior high school. Robin had interesting music tastes.<\/p>\n<p>Then, in 1981, I bought an issue of Flexipop that had an ad for Toyah\u2019s \u201cThunder In The Mountains\u201d single. The extreme styling and pose of the photo was sort of like a femme take on \u201cAladdin Sane\u201d but the eerie calmness of the singer\u2019s pose looked interesting.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Continue reading at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/postpunkmonk.com\/2019\/10\/22\/record-review-toyah-sheep-farming-in-barnet-uk-7-ep\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Post Punk Monk<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was barely familiar with Toyah from seeing a review of \u201cAnthem\u201d in the pages of \u201cDogfood,\u201d our local New Wave newspaper that was published by Record Mart chain in Orlando in the late 70s\/early 80s. The positive review piqued by interest as it was written by Robin Shurtz; a guy I knew from teaching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[110,12],"tags":[2244],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060"}],"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=32060"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32070,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32060\/revisions\/32070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}