{"id":54815,"date":"2021-07-26T09:54:16","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=54815"},"modified":"2021-07-26T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T16:54:16","slug":"burton-hosts-jeopardy-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2021\/07\/burton-hosts-jeopardy-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton Hosts Jeopardy! This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning tonight, <strong>LeVar Burton<\/strong> will be the guest host on <em>Jeopardy!<\/em>, which airs on NBC.<\/p>\n<p>As seen below, Burton spoke about taking on the role of guest host. I &#8220;want to live up to <strong>Alex <\/strong>[<strong>Trebek<\/strong>]&#8217;s legacy,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was terrified,&#8221; said Burton, when asked about being nervous about hosting the show. &#8220;You&#8217;re not going to be as smooth as Alex,&#8221; he told himself. &#8220;Let go of that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What you can bring to the table is you,&#8221; he said. &#8220;So that became my point of focus, and when it did, I started having fun.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PZ2gm9w6nHY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Burton spoke more about the guest host opportunity in a promotional video for the show. &#8220;When this opportunity came by, I could not pass it up,&#8221; he said. He admitted that he was &#8220;absolutely petrified&#8221; and &#8220;I don&#8217;t know that that feeling ever went away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The guest hosts have been raising funds for their favorite charities. Burton will be raising funds for <em>Reading is Fundamental.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1MBrTTPkmns\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beginning tonight, LeVar Burton will be the guest host on Jeopardy!, which airs on NBC&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54816,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2451,9611],"class_list":["post-54815","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\/07\/BurtonJeopardy072621.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BurtonJeopardy072621-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BurtonJeopardy072621.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BurtonJeopardy072621.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BurtonJeopardy072621.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BurtonJeopardy072621.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BurtonJeopardy072621.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BurtonJeopardy072621.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BurtonJeopardy072621.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/BurtonJeopardy072621.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\/54815","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=54815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54817,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54815\/revisions\/54817"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}