{"id":100151,"date":"2022-05-15T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-15T10:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/ukraine-president-pledges-to-host-contest-after-eurovision-victory\/"},"modified":"2022-05-15T15:54:10","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T10:24:10","slug":"ukraine-president-pledges-to-host-contest-after-eurovision-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/ukraine-president-pledges-to-host-contest-after-eurovision-victory\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine President Pledges To Host Contest After Eurovision Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #121212;\">Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky has greeted his country\u2019s victory at the Eurovision Song Contest with delight. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #121212;\">The highly-favoured Kalush Orchestra won the competition on Saturday, with a record number of 439 people\u2019s votes from across Europe clinching their success on an emotional evening in Turin, Italy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #121212;\">Zelensky said afterwards: \u201cOur courage impresses the world, our music conquers Europe!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #121212;\">The winner of each year\u2019s Contest traditionally becomes the event host the following year, and Zelensky promised that Ukraine would be no exception, despite its current plight following invasion by Russia. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #121212;\">\u201cWe will do our best to one day host the participants and guests of Eurovision in Ukrainian Mariupol. Free, peaceful, rebuilt! I am sure our victorious chord in the battle with the enemy is not far off.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-xry7m2\" style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14.0pt; font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif; color: #121212;\">In a turn up for the books after more than a decade of disaster at the competition, the UK also did very well, with Sam Ryder coming second. The UK entry had been leading the competition following the juries\u2019 votes, but the people\u2019s vote proved decisive in pushing Ukraine to the top of the board. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelensky has greeted his country\u2019s victory at the Eurovision Song Contest with delight. The highly-favoured Kalush Orchestra won the competition on Saturday, with a record number of 439 people\u2019s votes from across Europe clinching their success on an emotional evening in Turin, Italy. Zelensky said afterwards: \u201cOur courage impresses the world, our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":100152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Ukraine-President-Pledges-To-Host-Contest-After-Eurovision-Victory.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100151"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}