{"id":1957,"date":"2020-11-11T08:38:17","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T16:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2020-11-11T08:42:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T16:42:17","slug":"jeopardie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/jeopardie\/","title":{"rendered":"Primal Jeopardy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" data-attachment-id=\"1959\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/jeopardie\/sky\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sky.jpg?fit=2000%2C1333&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2000,1333\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"sky\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sky.jpg?fit=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sky.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1959\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sky.jpg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sky.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sky.jpg?resize=1536%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.scot.fun\/damentals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/sky.jpg?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody&#8217;s saying it, so I will. Alex Trebek was sassy. He was condescending, and he did silly voices. Trivia is not enough to make Jeopardy work so long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sometimes I think that a game show host&#8217;s job is to present a completely sterilized, smooth talking, polished non-person. No matter what form of entertainment, it still comes back to humans. Each night, we got to see a little more of what kind of human Alex was &#8211; not that there are kinds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He made the audience feel smart and sassy too. Let&#8217;s all give our whole selves to the world, and see what happens. People might embrace the parts that seem unsavory. Those parts might punctuate a person&#8217;s weeknights with fun. Love to Alex and his fam!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody&#8217;s saying it, so I will. Alex Trebek was sassy. He was condescending, and he did silly voices. Trivia is not enough to make Jeopardy work so long. Sometimes I think that a game show host&#8217;s job is to present a completely sterilized, smooth talking, polished non-person. 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