{"id":123,"date":"2005-05-22T15:26:56","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T18:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=123"},"modified":"2005-05-23T18:21:40","modified_gmt":"2005-05-23T21:21:40","slug":"i-won","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=123","title":{"rendered":"I won!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><a href=\".\/wp-content\/euro1.jpg\"><img src='.\/wp-content\/thumb-euro1.jpg' alt='How did she get that dress on?'  title='How Did She Get In That Dress' style=\"float:right;margin:2px;\"\/><\/a>n the mother of all bets, a couple of previous entries down below, I said that the Eurovision Songcontest winner was going to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=120\">&#8216;female with a song about nothing&#8217;<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>I <a href=\".\/wp-content\/euro2.jpg\"><img src='.\/wp-content\/thumb-euro2.jpg' alt='Spain is giving 3 points to?' title='...Spain is giving points...'  style=\"float:right;margin:2px;\" \/><\/a>was right! And this time I didn&#8217;t even have to cheat!\n<\/p>\n<p>Not that I actually saw the winning tune, but if you&#8217;re interested who she was, it was Helena Paparizou, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/4566149.stm\">with the song<\/a>, &#8216;My Number One&#8217;. <a href=\".\/wp-content\/euro3.jpg\"><img src='.\/wp-content\/thumb-euro3.jpg' title='ROMENIA! Oh They So Happy!'  alt='Romenia gets 12 points!!! WOW! Uh.' style=\"float:right;margin:5px;\" \/><\/a>One can only guess what the song is all about.\n<\/p>\n<p>I was able to tune in after the songs and watch the points section, which was both hilarious and predictable: &#8216;block voting&#8217; should be added to Merriam Webster, in the context of &#8216;I block voted!&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mother of all bets, a couple of previous entries down below, I said that the Eurovision Songcontest winner was going to be &#8216;female with a song about nothing&#8217;. I was right! And this time I didn&#8217;t even have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=123\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}