{"id":2446,"date":"2008-02-26T07:50:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T12:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2008-02-26T13:32:54","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T18:32:54","slug":"eurosong-dustin-the-irish-turkey-odder-than-lordi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/eurosong-dustin-the-irish-turkey-odder-than-lordi\/","title":{"rendered":"EuroSong: Dustin the Irish Turkey &#8211; odder than Lordi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/save-files\/img\/upload\/DustinTheTurkey-RESIZE-120-88.jpg\" alt=\"Dustin the Turkey (Buzzard)\" \/><br \/>\nMost of us, in the USA, can understand <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lordi.fi\/\">Lordi &#8212; Finnish heavy metalists<\/a> who are also heavy on costume and makeup in a monsterly way. And  a song like <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.youtube.com\/watch?v=PdbDNL5oqCs\">&#8220;Hard Rock Hallelujah&#8221;<\/a> sounds somewhat familiar. So when <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/4998186.stm\">Lordi won the EuroSong contest<\/a>, we were relieved that there was something there more that mind deadening Euro-pop.<\/p>\n<p>But now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/page\/news\/belgrade-2008?id=505\">the Irish have upped the ante<\/a> but offering a sock puppet named Dustin the Turkey singing <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.youtube.com\/watch?v=MHsm2YVso0A&#038;NR=1\">&#8220;Irelande Douze Pointe&#8221;<\/a>. Oddly I think that Dustin is onto the <em>essence<\/em> of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/page\/home\">EuroSong<\/a>! <\/p>\n<p>As a side note, I&#8217;d say that Dustin is not <a href=\"http:\/\/ibc.hbw.com\/ibc\/phtml\/votacio.phtml?idVideo=9380&#038;Meleagris_gallopavo\">a turkey as we in the USA know turkeys<\/a>, but more properly &#8212;  if the word proper can be used in connection with Dustin &#8212; he is <a href=\"http:\/\/ibc.hbw.com\/ibc\/phtml\/votacio.phtml?idVideo=17807&#038;Cathartes_aura\">a turkey buzzard<\/a>.Neither birds are native to Europe, which might make Dustin the first bird of American ancestry to represent Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of us, in the USA, can understand Lordi &#8212; Finnish heavy metalists who are also heavy on costume and makeup in a monsterly way. And a song like &#8220;Hard Rock Hallelujah&#8221; sounds somewhat familiar. So when Lordi won the EuroSong contest, we were relieved that there was something there more that mind deadening Euro-pop. [&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-2446","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\/2446","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=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}