{"id":2207,"date":"2009-05-14T17:18:27","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T17:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/14\/my-five-to-watch-in-tonights-eurovision-semi-final\/"},"modified":"2023-02-24T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T11:43:19","slug":"my-five-to-watch-in-tonights-eurovision-semi-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/my-five-to-watch-in-tonights-eurovision-semi-final\/","title":{"rendered":"My &ldquo;Five To Watch&rdquo; in Tonight&rsquo;s Eurovision Semi-Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take note, not the five that are the best and likely to qualify, but the five that have the entertainment factor. The short list is:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ireland, Serbia, Greece, Ukraine and the Netherlands<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>For the full reasons why, and the preview videos, head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thestage.co.uk\/tvtoday\/2009\/05\/eurovision-watchers-guide-semi-final-2\/\">my article at The Stage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And one last minute addition to this, having seen the final dress rehearsal is host <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/05\/14\/matt-berry-the-it-crowd-is-the-host-of-tonights-eurovision-semi-final-honestly\/\">Andrey Malahov\u2019s new hairstyle<\/a>. It\u2019s like\u2026 well\u2026 an entire canister of Harmony Hairspray and then the application of a finger into an electric socket\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take note, not the five that are the best and likely to qualify, but the five that have the entertainment factor. The short list is: Ireland, Serbia, Greece, Ukraine and the Netherlands For the full reasons why, and the preview videos, head over to my article at The Stage. And one last minute addition to this, having seen the final dress rehearsal is host Andrey Malahov\u2019s new hairstyle. It\u2019s like\u2026 well\u2026 an entire canister of Harmony Hairspray and then the application of a finger into an electric socket\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[595,22,392,13],"tags":[1093,287,371,660],"class_list":["post-2207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-595","category-conferences","category-eurovision-multimedia","category-links-to-my-articles","tag-andrey-malahov","tag-eurovision","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-top-list","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-zB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62312,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2207\/revisions\/62312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}