{"id":1285,"date":"2006-05-21T15:49:37","date_gmt":"2006-05-21T20:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1285"},"modified":"2006-05-21T18:06:27","modified_gmt":"2006-05-21T23:06:27","slug":"my-finnish-readers-lordi-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/my-finnish-readers-lordi-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"My Finnish Readers&#8217; Lordi-mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lordi.org\/\">Lordi<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/english\/index.htm\">Eurovision VICTORY <\/a>last night, this blog&#8217;s readership from Finland has exceeded that coming from the US or any other country. The count has been  varying from 35 t0 23% Finnish in the past say 18 hours with over 80% of the readers coming from Europe in the wee Eastern Daylight Hours.<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/05\/21\/russia.eurovision.ap\/index.html\">a few whiny Russians who are trying to claim a win<\/a> even though <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/english\/russia.htm\">Dima Bilan<\/a> is almost 50 points behind the lovely and talented Lordi.<\/p>\n<p>Also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votelordi.org\/\">VoteLordi folks <\/a>explain why they nearly took their support site completely off the net. They mostly removed all links and put up a disclaimer saying that they would explain later &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votelordi.org\/epilogue.html\">now they have<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/english\/2510.htm\">Mr. Lordi&#8217;s short interview after the victory.<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/5002798.stm\">the BBC article and interview with the Lordi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the Lordi Eurovision VICTORY last night, this blog&#8217;s readership from Finland has exceeded that coming from the US or any other country. The count has been varying from 35 t0 23% Finnish in the past say 18 hours with over 80% of the readers coming from Europe in the wee Eastern Daylight Hours. There [&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-1285","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\/1285","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=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}