{"id":12662,"date":"2012-03-19T17:25:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T21:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/?p=12662"},"modified":"2012-03-19T17:33:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T21:33:01","slug":"if-you-cant-say-anything-nice-about-buranovskiye-babushki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/if-you-cant-say-anything-nice-about-buranovskiye-babushki\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Can&#8217;t Say Anything Nice About&#8230;Buranovskiye Babushki"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We here in the Halls of Rock Town are sometimes taken to task for being overly negative, snarky, hyper-critical, and all too often, just downright rude. As part of our collective efforts to bring a bit of sunshine and light to the world wide web, we occasionally make an extra effort effort to find something good to say about, you know, stuff that is clearly godawful.<\/p>\n<p>It is in that spirit that we embark on yet another effort to bring some positivity to our proceedings. Please spend some quality time with the video above, then\u2014if you can\u2014please find something\u00a0<em>nice<\/em> to say about it. You\u2019ll feel a whole lot better, I promise you.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your comments. Just remember, if you can\u2019t say anything\u00a0<em>nice<\/em> about this video\u2026 please don\u2019t say anything at all.<\/p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/svrmqDWmFhc?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>With less than 3 months to go, I am getting very excited about the prospect of this year&#8217;s <strong>Eurovision Song Contest<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>The behind-the-scenes activity is already hotting up, with 75-year-old <strong>Engelbert Humperdinck<\/strong> lined up to represent Great Britain.  He must be gutted that his place as the oldest person to perform in the Contest will immediately be usurped by 76-year-old <strong>Natalya Pugacheva<\/strong> from the Buranovo Grannies, whose husband is apparently very cross that she is going away to represent her country and he will need to find someone else to milk their cattle during the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Go Grannies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We here in the Halls of Rock Town are sometimes taken to task for being overly negative, snarky, hyper-critical, and all too often, just downright rude. As part of our collective efforts to bring a bit of sunshine and light to the world wide web, we occasionally make an extra effort effort to find something <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/if-you-cant-say-anything-nice-about-buranovskiye-babushki\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2204,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[607,346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2204"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}