{"id":43405,"date":"2025-12-23T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/?p=43405"},"modified":"2025-12-24T02:42:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:42:20","slug":"christmas-2025-day-23-a-christmas-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/christmas-2025-day-23-a-christmas-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas 2025: Day 23: A Christmas Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/christmas-countdown-2025\/\" rel=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/category\/christmas-countdown-2025\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-43254 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/christmas25c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/span>Christmas 1996<\/strong>, <span style=\"color: #008000;\">Toyah contributed a thoughtful festive recollection of Christmas Times past to the charity publication <em>Once Upon A Christmas<\/em> (Memories and Recipes From Your Favourite Celebrities). This book is now long out of print and unavailable.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/libp336.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/libp336.html noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-32385 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/ouac19a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a>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><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 Toyah&#8217;s <em>Once Upon A Christmas<\/em> contribution at Dreamscape&#8217;s <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/libp336.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Press Archive<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #008000;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas 1996, Toyah contributed a thoughtful festive recollection of Christmas Times past to the charity publication Once Upon A Christmas (Memories and Recipes From Your Favourite Celebrities). This book is now long out of print and unavailable. In this delightful Christmas book, a host of our most popular and well-known celebrities from all walks of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3428,3430],"tags":[3450,992],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43405"}],"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=43405"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43408,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43405\/revisions\/43408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}