{"id":13645,"date":"2021-06-10T09:54:13","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T08:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13645"},"modified":"2021-06-10T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T08:54:16","slug":"the-great-americovision-song-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13645","title":{"rendered":"The Great Americovision Song Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lots of stuff starting to emerge about <strong>The American Song Contest<\/strong> coming to NBC next year. That it&#8217;ll be awful is probably a given.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However some stuff has come out regarding the format <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tvinsider.com\/1001664\/u-s-eurovision-american-song-contest-applications\/\">that&#8217;s a bit more interesting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;There will be a series of qualifying heats to determine which states and territories move forward, followed by March Madness-style semi-finals and the ultimate grand final where the winner will be crowned.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>This does not sound like the Eurovision. It does, however, sound very much like <strong>Melodifestivalen<\/strong>, Sweden&#8217;s extremely popular national song selection competition, but I guess that doesn&#8217;t quite have the same brand recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of stuff starting to emerge about The American Song Contest coming to NBC next year. That it&#8217;ll be awful is probably a given. However some stuff has come out regarding the format that&#8217;s a bit more interesting. &#8220;There will be a series of qualifying heats to determine which states and territories move forward, followed\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=13645\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pLcmt-3y5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}