{"id":1281,"date":"2006-05-19T09:27:39","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T14:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2006-05-19T15:14:35","modified_gmt":"2006-05-19T20:14:35","slug":"finnish-metalmen-lordi-in-eurovision-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/finnish-metalmen-lordi-in-eurovision-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Finnish Metalmen Lordi in Eurovision Finals!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/eurovision.lordi.org\/main.site?action=binary\/file&#038;id=6&#038;fid=9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/eurovision.lordi.org\/main.site?action=binary\/file&#038;id=7&#038;fid=21\" alt=\"the Lovely and Talented Lordi\" align=right \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe masks, the metal, the giant bat wings, the song <a href=\"http:\/\/eurovision.lordi.org\/main.site?action=siteupdate\/view&#038;id=6\">&#8220;Hard Rock Halleluja!&#8221;<\/a> Yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/eurovision.lordi.org\/main.site?action=siteupdate\/view&#038;id=2\">the fabulous Finnish Monster Men<\/a> have made the finals of the otherwise banal <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/english\/index.htm\">Eurovision Song Contest finals<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metal-temple.com\/\">Metal Temple<\/a> is on the ground in Athens and posts <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metal-temple.com\/news.asp?id=6275\">this report of the Lordi semi-finals<\/a> and t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metal-temple.com\/report.asp?id=157\">he secret Lordi warm up gig.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: I am not a metalhead, but I&#8217;m amused that the completely silly Eurovision might be captured by these daring and darling young men. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votelordi.org\/\">Yes, I&#8217;m pulling for Lordi!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The masks, the metal, the giant bat wings, the song &#8220;Hard Rock Halleluja!&#8221; Yes, the fabulous Finnish Monster Men have made the finals of the otherwise banal Eurovision Song Contest finals. Metal Temple is on the ground in Athens and posts this report of the Lordi semi-finals and the secret Lordi warm up gig. Disclaimer: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}