{"id":54650,"date":"2021-06-30T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T18:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=54650"},"modified":"2021-06-30T11:24:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T18:24:02","slug":"burton-really-wants-to-be-the-permanent-jeopardy-host","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2021\/06\/burton-really-wants-to-be-the-permanent-jeopardy-host\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton Really Wants To Be The Permanent Jeopardy! Host"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the <em>New York Times<\/em>,<strong> LeVar Burton<\/strong> explained how he feels about the possibility of becoming the permanent host of <em>Jeopardy!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s difficult to explain,&#8221; he said, &#8220;but there&#8217;s something inside me that says this makes sense. I feel like this is what I&#8217;m supposed to do. I have been watching<em> Jeopardy!<\/em> more or less every night of my life since <strong>Art Fleming<\/strong> was host.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>Jeopardy!<\/em> is a cultural touchstone, and for a Black man to occupy that podium is significant. Look, I have had a career for the [expletive] ages. <em>Roots, Star Trek, Reading Rainbow<\/em>. Won a<em> Grammy<\/em>. Got a shelf full of <em>Emmys<\/em>. I&#8217;m a storyteller, and game shows are tremendous stories. There&#8217;s a contest, there&#8217;s comedy, there&#8217;s drama. If you don&#8217;t know your [expletive] on <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> you&#8217;re sunk in full view of the entire nation. The stakes are high. I love that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Burton is prepared to deal with the disappointment that will happen if he doesn&#8217;t get the <em>Jeopardy!<\/em> job. &#8220;It will hurt,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to lie. But if that happens, I will get over it. I will be fine. Remember: Everything happens perfectly and for a reason. That is my default. It&#8217;s all going to be OK. Because it always is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Burton&#8217;s guest host appearance on the show will take place the end of July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview with the New York Times, LeVar Burton explained how he feels about&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54651,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2451,9611],"class_list":["post-54650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-burton","tag-jeopardy"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BurtonJeopardyWikiJeopProd080618.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BurtonJeopardyWikiJeopProd080618-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BurtonJeopardyWikiJeopProd080618.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BurtonJeopardyWikiJeopProd080618.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BurtonJeopardyWikiJeopProd080618.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BurtonJeopardyWikiJeopProd080618.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BurtonJeopardyWikiJeopProd080618.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BurtonJeopardyWikiJeopProd080618.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BurtonJeopardyWikiJeopProd080618.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/BurtonJeopardyWikiJeopProd080618.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54652,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54650\/revisions\/54652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}