{"id":92616,"date":"2024-05-12T21:45:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T04:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=92616"},"modified":"2024-05-12T21:45:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T04:45:46","slug":"eurovision-goes-gay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2024\/05\/12\/eurovision-goes-gay\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision Goes Gay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <em>Eurovision Song Contest <\/em>just crowned Switzerland the 2024 winner.&nbsp; The competition never took off here in the States the way it does in&#8230;well, Europe!&nbsp; It\u2019s kinda like a cross between <strong><em>American Idol<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>The Gong Show<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; Each country submits a song and singer, which often includes some sort of costume, nationalistic dance, and a healthy helping of kitsch.&nbsp; You won\u2019t be surprised to hear that it also attracts a very gay audience. &nbsp;How gay?&nbsp; During the live semifinals from Sweden, co-host <strong>Petra Mede <\/strong>was explaining how easy it is to use the official app.&nbsp; While she was holding one \u201crandom\u201d audience member\u2019s phone, we heard what may have been an unfamiliar sound to Petra \u2013 but what we all recognized as the notification from <em>Grindr<\/em>.&nbsp; And then another.&nbsp; And then another!&nbsp; As the notifications kept coming, Petra said, \u201cOK, I\u2019ll just give you the phone back.&nbsp; It seems like you\u2019re having a wonderful week here in Malm\u00f6!\u201d&nbsp; I don\u2019t know if the Eurovision app is easy, but the owner of that phone sure is!&nbsp; It all seemed a bit staged to <em>moi<\/em>&#8230;or however you say it in Swedish.&nbsp; You can watch the clip on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.BillyMasters.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>BillyMasters.com<\/u><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eurovision Song Contest just crowned Switzerland the 2024 winner.&nbsp; The competition never took off here in the States the way it does in&#8230;well, Europe!&nbsp; It\u2019s kinda like a cross between American Idol and The Gong Show.&nbsp; Each country submits a song and singer, which often includes some sort of costume, nationalistic dance, and a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92617,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92616\/revisions\/92617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}