{"id":709,"date":"2026-05-11T10:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=709"},"modified":"2026-05-11T10:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T10:43:13","slug":"eurovision-fever-hits-host-city-vienna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=709","title":{"rendered":"Eurovision fever hits host city Vienna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eurovision kicked off in Vienna on Sunday, with thousands of fans flocking to the city for events and music ahead of the song contest&#8217;s grand final next weekend, with renewed calls for a boycott over Israel&#8217;s participation. The Austrian capital is pulling out all the stops to host the 70th edition of the world&#8217;s most-watched song contest, with many side events scheduled in the run-up to the final on May 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eurovision kicked off in Vienna on Sunday, with thousands of fans flocking to the city for events and music ahead of the song contest&#8217;s grand final next weekend, with renewed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=709\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}