{"id":40726,"date":"2023-12-22T21:09:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-22T21:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=40726"},"modified":"2023-12-23T12:29:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-23T12:29:30","slug":"christmas-countdown-2023-day-18-a-card-from-toyah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-countdown-2023-day-18-a-card-from-toyah\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Countdown 2023: Day 18: A Card From Toyah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2023\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2023\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-20869 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/christmas14b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"84\" \/><\/a>Christmas 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984<\/strong><span style=\"color: #339966;\">. In the early eighties Toyah&#8217;s Official Fanclub &#8211; Intergalactic Ranch House &#8211; sent out Christmas cards to subscribing members each December, with <\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #339966;\">Toyah taking the time to sign each and every card, which numbered around 6,000 at the height of the fanclub&#8217;s popularity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">This tradition was carried on for an extra year, in 1984, when the Intergalactic Ranch House became simply the Toyah Fanclub following Toyah leaving Safari Records after five years and signing to CBS\/Portrait Records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">All four cards featured photos of Toyah, showcasing great early eighties imagery and creating a unique set of fanclub memorabilia that became collector&#8217;s items. Here&#8217;s a snapshot of a feature on the Christmas cards from an issue of Dreamscape&#8217;s fanzine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #339966;\">\u2022 NB: Lovely to see Official Toyah sharing the 1984 card in festive posts at Toyah&#8217;s Official <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=943110953842160&amp;set=a.251258556360740\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Facebook<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C1K3uqxt9Bg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Instagram<\/strong><\/span><\/strong><\/a> yesterday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2022\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/tag\/christmas-countdown-2022\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30234\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/xmascards18a.jpg\" alt=\"xmascards18a\" width=\"600\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/xmascards18a.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/xmascards18a-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984. In the early eighties Toyah&#8217;s Official Fanclub &#8211; Intergalactic Ranch House &#8211; sent out Christmas cards to subscribing members each December, with Toyah taking the time to sign each and every card, which numbered around 6,000 at the height of the fanclub&#8217;s popularity. This tradition was carried on for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3162],"tags":[3185,3172,3037],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40726"}],"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=40726"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40758,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40726\/revisions\/40758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}