{"id":217,"date":"2023-04-07T22:25:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T22:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2023-04-07T22:26:28","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T22:26:28","slug":"beattles-ukrainian-clothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/beattles-ukrainian-clothing","title":{"rendered":"The Beatles statue in Liverpool dons Ukrainian clothing for Eurovision 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In anticipation of the Eurovision Song Contest, the Beatles statue in Liverpool has been dressed in traditional Ukrainian attire for BBC filming. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statue, featuring Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and John Lennon, will don white vyshyvankas, embroidered shirts typically worn to celebrate Ukrainian tradition on Vyshyvanka Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"THE BEATLES Abbey Road Walk\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/id2Z7KtGSyw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Famous Abbey Road Walk by the Beattles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Liverpool is hosting the contest on behalf of Ukraine, a country still recovering from the effects of war. As the 40-day countdown to the event begins, preparations are underway to transform the M&amp;S Bank Arena for the contest. The grand final will be broadcast live on television to millions of viewers worldwide, as well as in cinemas across the UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city of Liverpool will host the event on Saturday, May 13th, following two semi-finals earlier in the week. In-person tickets for the grand final sold out in under 40 minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UK is hosting the contest on behalf of Ukraine after the country&#8217;s victory in the previous year&#8217;s competition. Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine prevented the winning country from hosting the 2023 contest, leading to the UK&#8217;s selection as a substitute host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The contest will be hosted by a star-studded cast, including Hannah Waddingham, Alesha Dixon, Julia Sanina, and Graham Norton. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British singer Mae Muller will represent the UK with her track, &#8220;I Wrote A Song.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Beatles statue in Liverpool has been dressed in traditional Ukrainian attire for BBC filming in prep for Eurovision 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,22,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popxd.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}