{"id":631405,"date":"2023-02-04T01:26:49","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T01:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=631405"},"modified":"2023-02-14T01:25:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T01:25:18","slug":"john-lydon-loses-out-on-eurovision-selection-as-wild-youth-chosen-to-represent-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/john-lydon-loses-out-on-eurovision-selection-as-wild-youth-chosen-to-represent-ireland","title":{"rendered":"John Lydon loses out on Eurovision selection as Wild Youth chosen to represent Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon will not represent Ireland in the Eurovision song contest after losing out to the group Wild Youth in a vote on Friday night. Lydon won plaudits for his song Hawaii, a love letter to his wife , who has Alzheimer&#8217;s disease, but trailed far behind the four-piece band from Dublin, who performed an upbeat number called We Are One. The possibility of Lydon&#8217;s post-punk band, Public Image Ltd, representing Ireland at the 67th Eurovision song contest in Liverpool in May had attracted widespread attention , but the group ended up finishing fourth out of six in a special edition of RT&#201;&#8217;s Late Late Show. Related: Eurovision to open voting to viewers across the world in major rule change The 67-year-old former punk appeared to anticipate defeat when a host asked him &#8211; before the voting results &#8211; if he had enjoyed his visit to Dublin. &#8220;No I have not, but that&#8217;s not the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Sex Pistol came fourth in vote to select country&#8217;s entry to the song contest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,1,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}