{"id":4613,"date":"2011-08-13T15:52:22","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T14:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=4613"},"modified":"2011-08-14T11:11:57","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T10:11:57","slug":"will-it-be-baku-will-it-be-rome-well-just-have-to-wait-and-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/will-it-be-baku-will-it-be-rome-well-just-have-to-wait-and-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Will it be Baku? Will it be Rome? We&#8217;ll just have to wait and see."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But before the big decision, Paul Jordan has taken a look at why taking Eurovision in 2012 to Baku has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escinsight.com\/2011\/08\/12\/to-baku-and-beyond\/\">causing so many headaches<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Immediately following Azerbaijan\u2019s victory there was speculation concerning the hosting of Eurovision in Baku in 2012. Indeed it was interesting to note at the press conference after the live final that the response was somewhat muted. The EBUs\u2019 Jon Ola Sand stated that he \u201cinvited Azerbaijan to begin discussions\u201d on hosting. Compared to the previous year, where there were discourses of \u201csee you in Germany\u201d, this marked a more cautious approach to Eurovision planning. It seems that for some, Baku\u00a0<em>is<\/em>\u00a0beyond. Why is it though that an Azeri Eurovision is viewed with caution and even suspicion?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A great in-depth piece, and the sort of stuff I was hoping <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escinsight.com\/\">ESC Insight<\/a> would cover when I brainstormed the goals around this time last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But before the big decision, Paul Jordan has taken a look at why taking Eurovision in 2012 to Baku has been causing so many headaches: Immediately following Azerbaijan\u2019s victory there was speculation concerning the hosting of Eurovision in Baku in 2012. Indeed it was interesting to note at the press conference after the live final that the response was somewhat muted. The EBUs\u2019 Jon Ola Sand stated that he \u201cinvited Azerbaijan to begin discussions\u201d on hosting. Compared to the previous year, where there were discourses of \u201csee you in Germany\u201d, this marked a more cautious approach to Eurovision planning. It<\/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":[392,25],"tags":[5516,2076,2932,287,2933],"class_list":["post-4613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eurovision-multimedia","category-link-log","tag-5516","tag-azerbaijan","tag-baku","tag-eurovision","tag-hosts","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1cp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613","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=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}