{"id":2009,"date":"2015-11-17T04:55:48","date_gmt":"2015-11-17T03:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=2009"},"modified":"2015-11-19T08:36:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-19T07:36:58","slug":"australie-neemt-opnieuw-deel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/stockholm2016\/australie-neemt-opnieuw-deel\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia takes again part in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #D49D6E; font-weight: bold;\" class=\"post-p-lead\">Unfortunately this article is not available in English and has been automatically translated. Please visit our <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/\">homepage<\/a> for all English content or get an overview of all English articles <a href=\"http:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/english\">here<\/a>. You can also request a translation by sending us an <a href=\"mailto:info@songfestival.be\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"lead\">After their successful debut in Vienna may the Australians again take part in the Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, next year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The feedback we received after their first participation of viewers, fans, press and broadcasters was overwhelmingly positive,&#8221; says <strong>Jon Ola Sand<\/strong>. He finds the participation of Australia to do a first step to the festival become a world wide event.<\/p>\n<p>This year Australia was directly qualified for the final. In 2016, the country will need to earn final place themselves in one of the two <strong>semi-finals<\/strong>. In the case of profit will the Australian broadcaster SBS in cooperation with another European broadcaster may organize the festival somewhere in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>That means that the final of the Eurovision song contest 2016 again with 26 instead of 27 candidates will go through.<\/p>\n<p>Australia was on the last song festival fifth with <em>Tonight Again<\/em> by Guy Sebastian. The country takes also part in the JESC on 21 november 2015 in Sofia. It is still not fixed or Australia will be a permanent participant to the ESF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A final spot gets the country however no longer automatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[334,9],"tags":[302],"class_list":["post-2009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-au","category-stockholm2016","tag-australie"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.5","language":"en","enabled_languages":["nl","fr","en"],"languages":{"nl":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"fr":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":true}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}