{"id":1283,"date":"2006-05-20T17:35:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-20T22:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1283"},"modified":"2006-05-20T17:49:55","modified_gmt":"2006-05-20T22:49:55","slug":"lordi-wins-eurovision-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/lordi-wins-eurovision-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Lordi WINS Eurovision Contest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a god &#8212; of a sort! At least Metal One. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/4998186.stm\">BBC just announced that Lordi<\/a>, representing Finland and all monstermen and monsterwomen, has just won the Eurovision Song Contest besting Russia by 44 points!<\/p>\n<p>According to BBC:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>EUROVISION RESULTS<br \/>\n1. Finland &#8211; 292 points<br \/>\n2. Russia &#8211; 248<br \/>\n3. Bosnia and Herzegovina &#8211; 229<br \/>\n4. Romania &#8211; 172<br \/>\n5. Sweden &#8211; 170<br \/>\n6. Lithuania &#8211; 162<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/english\/2509.htm\">the Eurovision site<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nBut if you thought that rocked, you ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t seen nothing yet. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the turn of Lordi, the monstrous hard rockers from Finland. The eponymous lead singer Mr. Lordi has miniature skulls on his kneecaps whose eyes light up red, his microphone is attached to the handle of a battleaxe and he has devil horns protruding from his head. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not exactly Abba. Despite their frightening appearance, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something really likeable about the group and the crowd really warm to them\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and are warmed by them! There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much fire on stage, the temperature in the arena rises several degrees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/english\/img\/01_final_2006_finland.jpg\" alt=\"Eurovision performance of Lordi\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=c0PFj9wiEZw\"><br \/>\nThe Lordi Semi-Final performance is on YouTube<\/a> (they have great pyrotechs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a god &#8212; of a sort! At least Metal One. BBC just announced that Lordi, representing Finland and all monstermen and monsterwomen, has just won the Eurovision Song Contest besting Russia by 44 points! According to BBC: EUROVISION RESULTS 1. Finland &#8211; 292 points 2. Russia &#8211; 248 3. Bosnia and Herzegovina &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283","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=1283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}