{"id":613,"date":"2010-05-28T17:20:30","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T16:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/?p=613"},"modified":"2010-05-28T17:24:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T16:24:24","slug":"magic-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/2010\/05\/28\/magic-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Moments?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night in the\u00a0Telanor arena was a more tense affair for the second semi-final of ESC 2010. This\u00a0was seen as being the more competetive of the two, \u00a0with more than 10 songs\u00a0having a better than good chance of\u00a0making it through to the final on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>I thought that the sound in the arena was *shocking*, so I can only imagine what it might have sounded like at home. I think my napkin of death wasn&#8217;t too bad in the end, considering I have been changing my mind a lot. The only songs that haven&#8217;t budged from my list have been Sweden and Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>I was very happy that\u00a0 Denmark made it through with <em>A Moment Like This<\/em>, but with one song to go and Sweden AND Denmark still in the running, what a shame that Anna didn&#8217;t make it through. Let me tell you &#8211; that was a major shock here, and the Swedes (and a lot of us) were gutted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Even the supply of glow sticks couldn&#8217;t save the song.\u00a0 As you can see I was very excited when it was time for us the play our part in the arena&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"a1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/a1-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Show business is a cruel mistress, and by the end of the night this picture tells the story of\u00a0 Sweden at the ESC this year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/a2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-618 alignnone\" title=\"a2\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/a2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/a2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2010\/05\/a2-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night in the\u00a0Telanor arena was a more tense affair for the second semi-final of ESC 2010. 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I thought that the sound in the arena was *shocking*, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Magic Moments? - Phil Jackson&#039;s Eurovision Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/eurovision\/2010\/05\/28\/magic-moments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Magic Moments? - Phil Jackson&#039;s Eurovision Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Thursday night in the\u00a0Telanor arena was a more tense affair for the second semi-final of ESC 2010. 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