{"id":2036,"date":"2007-03-03T09:07:25","date_gmt":"2007-03-03T09:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2007-03-03T09:07:25","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T09:07:25","slug":"2007-3-3-the-teapacks-push-the-button-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=2036","title":{"rendered":"The Teapacks: Push the button"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">The Israeli band The Teapacks&#8217; song &#8220;Push the button&#8221; may be <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6405457.stm\">banned from the Eurovision song contest <\/a>for being too political. I think the song is funny and in parts catchy (I love the gypsy folk music accordion thing) and should not be banned, but then again I don&#8217;t think the Israelis should be allowed to contest Eurovision generally for political reasons and because they are not Europeans.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, this is a clever PR coup from the Israeli officials who presented the song to Eurovision &#8212; but don&#8217;t see it as anything more than that.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wpWYFoSrmRA\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wpWYFoSrmRA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">The Israeli band The Teapacks&#8217; song &#8220;Push the button&#8221; may be <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/middle_east\/6405457.stm\">banned from the Eurovision song contest <\/a>for being too political. I think the song is funny and in parts catchy (I love the gypsy folk music accordion thing) and should not be banned, but then again I don&#8217;t think the Israelis should be allowed to contest Eurovision generally for political reasons and because they are not Europeans.<br \/>\nEither way, this is a clever PR coup from the Israeli officials who presented the song to Eurovision &#8212; but don&#8217;t see it as anything more than that.<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wpWYFoSrmRA\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/wpWYFoSrmRA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[102,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}