{"id":3622,"date":"2011-05-09T23:03:42","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T22:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3622"},"modified":"2011-05-09T23:07:02","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T22:07:02","slug":"eurovision-2011-semi-final-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3622","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2011 Semi-final 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3562\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=3562\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3562\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=3562\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/eurovision2011.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"720,297\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"eurovision2011\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/eurovision2011.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3562\" title=\"eurovision2011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/eurovision2011-300x123.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/eurovision2011-300x123.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/eurovision2011.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m really, really, woefully, <em>bitterly<\/em>\u00a0underprepared for Eurovision this year, and in actual fact I&#8217;m very likely to be busy during the two semi-finals, so for the first time in a long time I&#8217;m going to be going into Saturday&#8217;s grand final with no preconceptions, other then I reckon Blue will go Top Four and win me some money.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime Tuesday night is the first of the Eurovision semi-finals, and importantly it is the one that people in the UK can vote in. You will find it on BBC 3 at 8pm with Scott Mills and Sara Cox providing the commentary.<\/p>\n<p>As is usual, Punters are invited to give their opinions of the songs on the night, if you make a separate line of a comment the name of the country and a mark out of ten somebody will probably tot them up and some sort of Bother&#8217;s Bar jury decision will be reached.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/eurovision\/party\/scorecards.shtml\">The BBC has some downloadable scorecards<\/a> for you if you like and want to know the order of the songs in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Outside of the UK (or perhaps preferable to the BBC3 coverage), you should be able to watch on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/esctv\/future\">livestream on the official Eurovision site<\/a>\u00a0from 8pm UK time\/9pm Europe. It should last two hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m really, really, woefully, bitterly\u00a0underprepared for Eurovision this year, and in actual fact I&#8217;m very likely to be busy during the two semi-finals, so for the first time in a long time I&#8217;m going to be going into Saturday&#8217;s grand final with no preconceptions, other then I reckon Blue will go Top Four and win\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=3622\">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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3622","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-Wq","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622","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=3622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}