{"id":209005,"date":"2026-05-11T05:49:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:49:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/eurovision-semi-finals-what-to-expect-how-to-watch-and-who-is-among-favourites-to-win\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T05:49:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T05:49:03","slug":"eurovision-semi-finals-what-to-expect-how-to-watch-and-who-is-among-favourites-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/eurovision-semi-finals-what-to-expect-how-to-watch-and-who-is-among-favourites-to-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision semi-finals: What to expect, how to watch and who is among favourites to win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discord over Israel&#8217;s participation and its war in Gaza has dominated the build-up to this year&#8217;s Eurovision Song Contest. Now, on the eve of the start of the semi-finals, here\u2019s a breakdown of who&#8217;s set to perform when and what to expect.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.euronews.com\/culture\/2026\/05\/11\/eurovision-semi-finals-what-to-expect-how-to-watch-and-who-is-among-favourites-to-win\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discord over Israel&#8217;s participation and its war in Gaza has dominated the build-up to this year&#8217;s Eurovision Song Contest. Now, on the eve of the start of the semi-finals, here\u2019s a breakdown of who&#8217;s set to perform when and what to expect. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":209006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euroupdate.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}