{"id":7599,"date":"2014-05-12T10:31:36","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T10:31:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/195.21.21.161\/epop\/?p=7599"},"modified":"2018-05-27T17:46:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T16:46:24","slug":"conchita-rises-like-a-phoenix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2014\/05\/conchita-rises-like-a-phoenix\/","title":{"rendered":"Conchita Rises Like a Phoenix"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/conchita.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7600\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2014\/05\/conchita-rises-like-a-phoenix\/conchita\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/conchita.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"conchita\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/conchita.jpg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7600\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/conchita.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"conchita\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><strong>Austrian singer and celebrity, Conchita Wurst has won the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, held this year in Copenhagen, Denmark.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wurst, who also goes by the name of Tom Neuwirth, won with the Bond-style power-ballad, &#8220;Rise Like A Phoenix&#8221;, receiving an astounding 290 points &#8211; the third highest scoring winner to date, after Alexander Rybak in 2009 and Loreen, 2012.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- Random Ad stuff --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2076862002005673\" data-ad-slot=\"3107208401\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><\/p>\n<p><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Wurst&#8217;s post-ESC future certainly looks bright, with the singer predicted to make as much as \u00a325 million in music sales and endorsements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eurovision 2015 will be in Vienna, Austria, it has been confirmed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Austrian singer and celebrity, Conchita Wurst has won the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, held this year in Copenhagen, Denmark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7600,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[214,215,216,217,218,219,220,221],"class_list":["post-7599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-austria","tag-conchita-wurst","tag-copenhagen","tag-denmark","tag-esc","tag-eurovision-song-contest","tag-rise-like-a-phoenix","tag-vienna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-1Yz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10979,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2015\/05\/this-means-nothing-to-me\/","url_meta":{"origin":7599,"position":0},"title":"This Means Nothing To Me&#8230;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"26\/05\/2015","format":false,"excerpt":"This means nothing to me....ahhh Vienna!","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/songcontest.jpg?fit=734%2C350&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/songcontest.jpg?fit=734%2C350&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/songcontest.jpg?fit=734%2C350&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/songcontest.jpg?fit=734%2C350&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":24306,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/11\/georgias-mariam-mamadashvili-takes-junior-eurovision-crown-in-malta-with-mzeo\/","url_meta":{"origin":7599,"position":1},"title":"Georgia&#8217;s Mariam Mamadashvili Takes Junior Eurovision Crown In Malta With &#8216;Mzeo&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"21\/11\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Junior Eurovision sounds like what it is - the Eurovision Song Contest designed for children. 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