{"id":3344,"date":"2005-05-19T13:34:27","date_gmt":"2005-05-19T17:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3344"},"modified":"2005-05-19T13:34:27","modified_gmt":"2005-05-19T17:34:27","slug":"i_miss_eurovision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/i_miss_eurovision\/","title":{"rendered":"i miss eurovision"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>The undying popularity of godless things like Celine Dion or Riverdance can be attributed to the Eurovision Song Contest. And yet despite that, it&#8217;s safe to say that most Americans probably never knew such a thing existed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pitchfork&#8217;s David Raposa does a great job of explaining <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitchforkmedia.com\/features\/screen\/eurovision-05\/\">the brilliant shining madness that is Eurovision<\/a>. Make sure you read all the way down to where he describes this year&#8217;s entries. I know they will sound totally insane and fictional, right out of The Onion or McSweeney&#8217;s, but let me assure you that a) they are real and that b) the competition is equally bizarre every single year.<br \/>\nEurovision is so awesome I can&#8217;t believe it still isn&#8217;t broadcast in the US; in Manila I used to stay up late just to watch it live on obscure European channels. I&#8217;d love to go to a bar here in New York and watch it along with my fellow pop lovin&#8217; freaks but since I don&#8217;t know anywhere to do that, I guess I&#8217;ll just have to try and watch it online, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/radio2\/eurovision\/2005\/\">thanks to the BBC<\/a>.<br \/>\n[ via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doyoufeelloved.com\/blog\/archives\/2005_05.html#001070\">Do You Feel Loved?<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The undying popularity of godless things like Celine Dion or Riverdance can be attributed to the Eurovision Song Contest. And yet despite that, it&#8217;s safe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheesedip","category-movable-type"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}