{"id":7291,"date":"2013-05-13T23:36:16","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T22:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7291"},"modified":"2013-05-13T23:39:15","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T22:39:15","slug":"eurovision-2013-the-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7291","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision 2013! The Semi-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tuesday and Thursday 8pm (UK time),<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>BBC 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/euvomalmo2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7292\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?attachment_id=7292\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/euvomalmo2013.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"356,152\" 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=\"euvomalmo2013\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/euvomalmo2013.jpg\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7292\" alt=\"euvomalmo2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/euvomalmo2013-300x128.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/euvomalmo2013-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/euvomalmo2013.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>A general post for the Eurovision Semi-Finals this week, as the advent of Twitter has rather made live discussion of them less fun in a place like this &#8211; not a complaint, just a comment!<\/p>\n<p>BBC3 will be showing the semi-finals with Scott Mills and Ana Matronic from <em>The Scissor Sisters<\/em> (who are currently on &#8220;indefinite hiatus&#8221;, sadly). <strong>We in the UK can vote in Tuesday&#8217;s heat, but not the Thursday one. <\/strong>Interestingly, Tuesday is\u00a0the one with Ireland in it, but it&#8217;s not Jedward this year so it probably won&#8217;t affect the results.<\/p>\n<p>Regrettably work commitments mean I will be missing Tuesday one, and probably a bit of Thursdays as well. As I&#8217;ve not followed the Eurovision at all this year really, it should make for a nice surprise come Saturday&#8217;s big final.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b0070hvg\">Here&#8217;s a link to the BBC site<\/a>, as that&#8217;s where I&#8217;ve nicked the picture from.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re outside of Europe, you can still usually watch! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\/page\/webtv\">Eurovision.tv usually carries an ungeoblocked stream<\/a>, and it&#8217;s official too. If you&#8217;re watching from outside of Europe, do let us know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>Please feel free to leave any Eurovisiony comments here. A separate post will go up for the grand final on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday and Thursday 8pm (UK time), BBC 3 A general post for the Eurovision Semi-Finals this week, as the advent of Twitter has rather made live discussion of them less fun in a place like this &#8211; not a complaint, just a comment! BBC3 will be showing the semi-finals with Scott Mills and Ana Matronic\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/?p=7291\">Read More: Eurovision 2013! The Semi-Finals &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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7291","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-1TB","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291","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=7291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bothersbar.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}