{"id":361,"date":"2013-10-14T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T09:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=361"},"modified":"2013-10-14T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T09:22:10","slug":"english-atop-the-eurovision-pile-yet-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/?p=361","title":{"rendered":"English atop the Eurovision pile, yet again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"content-image-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.static-economist.com\/sites\/default\/files\/imagecache\/full-width\/images\/2013\/05\/blogs\/johnson\/edf_eurovision.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"595\" height=\"388\" \/><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>LAST Saturday saw Denmark <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2013\/05\/18\/world\/europe\/eurovision-song-contest\/index.html\">win the Eurovision Song Contest<\/a>, the country&#8217;s third win in the contest&#8217;s history. A prototypically apple-cheeked blonde (pictured) took the trophy for her country, but she did so with the rather un-Danish name of Emmelie de Forest and the equally un-Danish <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=k59E7T0H-Us\">title<\/a>, &#8220;Only Teardrops&#8221;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The contest has always been about more than music. Every year comes a slew of articles about the political nature of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/page\/history\/by-year\/contest?event=1773\">voting<\/a>. Countries that share ethnic or political friendships routinely give each other high marks: Greece and Cyprus typically give each other the maximum of 12 points while stiffing Turkey with&nbsp;<em>nul points,&nbsp;<\/em>for example. Estonia and Latvia this year gave Russia 12 points, no doubt because those countries&#8217; large Russian populations voted for their neighbour.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Language, of course, plays a role in this as well. &#8220;Ethnicity&#8221; in Europe is&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21578231?fsrc=rss\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<p>via Johnson http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21578231?fsrc=rss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAST Saturday saw Denmark win the Eurovision Song Contest, the country&#8217;s third win in the contest&#8217;s history. A prototypically apple-cheeked blonde (pictured) took the trophy for her country, but she did so with the rather un-Danish name of Emmelie de Forest and the equally un-Danish title, &#8220;Only Teardrops&#8221;.&nbsp; The contest has always been about more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[75],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesusromerotrillo.es\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}