{"id":640,"date":"2015-09-25T22:10:46","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T20:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=640"},"modified":"2015-11-16T10:41:02","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T09:41:02","slug":"mikhail-smirnov-zingt-mechta-voor-rusland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/junior-2015\/mikhail-smirnov-zingt-mechta-voor-rusland\/","title":{"rendered":"Mikhail Smirnov sings Mechta for Russia"},"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\">The 12-year-old Mikhail Smirnov has tonight the Russian national final for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest won by 2015. With the song &#8220;Mechta&#8221; he will represent his country in the final in Sofia.<\/p>\n<p>To the preliminary round names eighteen young candidates. During the broadcast itself the audience could not vote: there could only be voted online in advance on the basis of the studio versions of the songs. Those votes were added to the results of a seven-member jury. Together they chose the song <em>Mechta<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Mechta<\/em> is Russian for <em>dream<\/em>, and so committed to a remarkable, dreamy trend further: two years ago the Russians had a song that meant <em>Dream further <\/em>, and last year they released a song entitled <em>Dreamer<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The thirteenth JESC takes place on Saturday 21st november in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the third consecutive year, the title of the Russian song the word &#8216; dream &#8216;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":641,"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":[128,361],"tags":[211,131,243,67,244],"class_list":["post-640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-junior-2015","category-ru","tag-jesc","tag-jesf","tag-mikhail-smirnov","tag-rusland","tag-russia"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","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\/640","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}