{"id":658,"date":"2009-05-11T20:30:48","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T19:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/?p=658"},"modified":"2012-08-24T11:34:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T10:34:07","slug":"eurovision-song-contest-2009-azerbaijan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/archives\/658","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision Song Contest 2009 &#8211; Azerbaijan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/azerbaijan-150x146.jpg\" alt=\"azerbaijan\" title=\"azerbaijan\" width=\"150\" height=\"146\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/azerbaijan-150x146.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/azerbaijan.jpg 256w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Okay, we admit.  We&#8217;re pushing the European element a bit here but it&#8217;s tricky to define whether Azerbaijan is European or Asian.  But on the other hand, it has a better claim than Israel which is very definetly not in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>So anyway, here we have &#8220;Always&#8221; sung by AySel &#038; Arash.  It&#8217;s a nice poppy anthem and worthy of a chance but with the voting system the way it is, it seem unlikely they will win.  However we hope they do well as it&#8217;s a traditional Eurovision song.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video.  Tell us what you think!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HmA82DlI-Pc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HmA82DlI-Pc&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurovision.tv\">Eurovision Song Contest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, we admit.  We&#8217;re pushing the European element a bit here but it&#8217;s tricky to define whether Azerbaijan is European or Asian.  But on the other hand, it has a better claim than Israel which is very definetly not in Europe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,36],"tags":[57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1104,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/1104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.european-lifestyle.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}