{"id":9091,"date":"2012-10-20T13:02:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-20T12:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/?p=9091"},"modified":"2012-10-20T13:08:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T12:08:25","slug":"ophelias-shadow-happy-21st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/ophelias-shadow-happy-21st\/","title":{"rendered":"Ophelia&#8217;s Shadow: Happy 21st!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When this album was released in 1991 I bought it immediately of course &#8211; it had been three long years since &#8216;Prostitute&#8217; &#8211; but my music tastes had changed radically through the mid-80s to the early-90s: Mudhoney, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, Fugazi, Big Black, Ministry, Ride, The Smiths, The Wedding Present were just some of my favourite bands, but I still had a real soft spot for Toyah,\u00a0being a loyal fan since\u00a01980,\u00a0and always bought everything she released and still\u00a0followed her eclectic career&#8230; &#8216;Ophelia&#8217;s Shadow&#8217; was an album that took a while to grow on me &#8211; something like 10 years! I didn&#8217;t really appreciate it&#8217;s brilliance\u00a0immediately, it took until around 2000 for that to happen\u00a0&#8211; Over the last few years it&#8217;s become one of my favourite Toyah albums and over the last year I&#8217;ve listened to it more than ever. Happy 21st birthday!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9092\" title=\"ophelia12b\" src=\"https:\/\/www.toyah.net\/fallingtoearth\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ophelia12b.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ophelia12b.jpg 600w, https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ophelia12b-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When this album was released in 1991 I bought it immediately of course &#8211; it had been three long years since &#8216;Prostitute&#8217; &#8211; but my music tastes had changed radically through the mid-80s to the early-90s: Mudhoney, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, Fugazi, Big Black, Ministry, Ride, The Smiths, The Wedding Present were just some of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,163],"tags":[413],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091"}],"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=9091"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9094,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9091\/revisions\/9094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toyah.net\/ds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}