{"id":557,"date":"2004-05-15T16:54:23","date_gmt":"2004-05-15T19:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=557"},"modified":"2004-05-15T16:54:23","modified_gmt":"2004-05-15T19:54:23","slug":"eurovision-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=557","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=dropcap>I<\/span>n a couple of hours (I think) the yearly Eurovision Song Festival will kick off, which brought me to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio2\/eurovision\/2004\/\">BBC&#8217;s Eurovision pages<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>I noticed something silly when going over the contestants list, singers and songtitles: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio2\/eurovision\/2004\/contestants\/\">Most titles are in English<\/a>, meaning, sung in English. Which is weird, and clearly shows that the contestants aim for international recognition (I mean, they want to be a popstar). Right away, I can tell you that I do not like the song (and singers) the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio2\/realmedia\/eurovision\/video\/netherlands.ram\">Dutch came up with<\/a>. A shame.\n<\/p>\n<p><em>7:15PM<\/em> It ended up being the Eurovision Dance Contest (says Terry Wogan): Ukraine won.\n<\/p>\n<p><em>6:53PM<\/em> Live feed over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsa\/n5ctrl\/live\/now1.ram\">BBC is jolly fun<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a couple of hours (I think) the yearly Eurovision Song Festival will kick off, which brought me to the BBC&#8217;s Eurovision pages. I noticed something silly when going over the contestants list, singers and songtitles: Most titles are in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=557\">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":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"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=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}