{"id":328,"date":"2006-05-08T16:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=328"},"modified":"2010-01-11T00:18:06","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T00:18:06","slug":"countdown-to-eurovision-oh-my-god-dont-stop-the-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2006\/05\/countdown-to-eurovision-oh-my-god-dont-stop-the-voting.html","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Eurovision: &#8220;Oh my god, keep the voting!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you&#8217;re anything like me, then you know the biggest music event of the year is drawing near: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/english\/index.htm\">The Eurovision Song Contest!<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The official site has full previews of the competing songs, the singers, and the multitalented hosts, but I prefer to take my Eurovision as a surprise.  Even so, over the next week or so in the lead-up to the final, there&#8217;ll be a small preview of some of the least-promising entrants, a review of last year&#8217;s big night in the Ukraine, and most importantly, a revised version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2005\/05\/le-royaume-uni-nul-points.html\">Eurovision Drinking Game<\/a>.  This last is essential to enduring an entire evening of the finest entertainment Europe has to offer.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking of Ukraine: why didn&#8217;t anyone tell me that 2004 winner and <a href=\"http:\/\/voffka.com\/archives\/ruslana.jpg\">upskirt champion<\/a> (link not safe for work) Ruslana is now <a href=\"http:\/\/en.for-ua.com\/news\/2006\/03\/29\/114013.html\">a member of parliament<\/a>?  It doesn&#8217;t seem that sparkling Ukrainian co-hosts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.klitschko.com\/\">the Klitschko brothers<\/a>, or best-ever Eurovision loser <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alfpoier.at\/\">Alf Poier<\/a> have run for public office.  Yet.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re anything like me, then you know the biggest music event of the year is drawing near: The Eurovision Song Contest! The official site has full previews of the competing songs, the singers, and the multitalented hosts, but I prefer to take my Eurovision as a surprise. Even so, over the next week or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3780,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}