{"id":1506,"date":"2007-05-12T20:33:25","date_gmt":"2007-05-12T23:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2007-10-06T09:39:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T12:39:42","slug":"bring-the-buzz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1506","title":{"rendered":"Bring the Buzz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span> found <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1507' rel='attachment wp-att-1507' title='UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Scooch'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/uk_s_entry_di_dn_t_fly_too_well.thumbnail.jpg' alt='UK\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Scooch' \/><\/a>out that today it&#8217;s Eurovision Songfestival day (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?s=Eurovision&#038;searchsubmit=Go\">all related items at xsamplex<\/a>). Actually, <em>was<\/em>: the winner is a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/6650599.stm\">Serbian ballad singer<\/a>, who apparently beat a Ukranian drag queen. The final results can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/content\/view\/880\/262\/\">here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>The BBC has some pictures (<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_pictures\/6650523.stm\">here<\/a>) and the one with the British band Scooch had me laughing. I don&#8217;t know why: I guess the Brits<sup>1<\/sup> ended up at the bottom 5 at the list but for some kind of reason I think their act might be a great fit for the KLM&#8217;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/in_pictures\/6650523.stm\">Frequent Flyer commercials<\/a>. &#8220;Did the right song win?&#8221;, the BBC is asking their <a href=\"http:\/\/newsforums.bbc.co.uk\/nol\/thread.jspa?threadID=6314&#038;&#038;edition=2&#038;ttl=20070513002813\">readers<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">We do not deserve points for entering a song that sounds like it was written by BA (editor: British Airways).\n<\/p>\n<p>The last time I flew BA, I&#8217;m pretty sure the flight attendants didn&#8217;t have light-blue suits. You&#8217;ve got your facts wrong, bud.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><sup>1<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scooch.co.uk\/\">Scooch&#8217;s (official) website<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found out that today it&#8217;s Eurovision Songfestival day (all related items at xsamplex). Actually, was: the winner is a Serbian ballad singer, who apparently beat a Ukranian drag queen. The final results can be viewed here. The BBC has &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1506\">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":[11],"tags":[157,156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506"}],"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=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}