{"id":681,"date":"2008-05-13T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/wordpress\/?p=681"},"modified":"2010-01-11T23:24:44","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T23:24:44","slug":"countdown-to-eurovision-could-be-worse-could-be-des-mangan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2008\/05\/countdown-to-eurovision-could-be-worse-could-be-des-mangan.html","title":{"rendered":"Countdown to Eurovision: Could be worse, could be Des Mangan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Director of the Eurovision Song Contest, Bjorn Erichsen, came <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">this close<\/span> to catching a clue when he complained to the BBC this week that their choice of host is a &#8220;problem&#8221; which is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.esctoday.com\/news\/read\/11356\">undermining the contest&#8217;s reputation<\/a>:<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<blockquote><p>Terry Wogan is a problem because he makes it ridiculous. I know he is very popular, and maybe that is the reason why a lot of people watch&#8230; The BBC gets a very large audience but it chooses to represent the Contest in a certain way. They take it far more seriously in Sweden. They have a genuine love and respect for it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ah yes, it&#8217;s all Wogan&#8217;s fault that people think <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;rls=GGGL,GGGL:2006-31,GGGL:en&amp;q=eurovision&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wi\">Eurovision is ridiculous<\/a>.  Apparently viewers in Sweden will be taking <a href=\"http:\/\/cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/2008\/03\/countdown-to-eurovision-first-battle-is.html\">that singing Irish turkey puppet<\/a> very seriously this year.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">How dare Wogan make Eurovision a popular, high-rating show, and retain a huge viewing audience in Britain while ratings across the rest of western Europe have nosedived?  What we really need is sober, introspective chin-stroking over &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UTFec_mrD-c\">Diggi-Loo Diggi-Ley<\/a>&#8220;.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of the Eurovision Song Contest, Bjorn Erichsen, came this close to catching a clue when he complained to the BBC this week that their choice of host is a &#8220;problem&#8221; which is undermining the contest&#8217;s reputation: Terry Wogan is a problem because he makes it ridiculous. I know he is very popular, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681"}],"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=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3904,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681\/revisions\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cookylamoo.com\/boringlikeadrill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}