{"id":144,"date":"2011-05-31T11:48:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T15:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/changingchannels\/?p=144"},"modified":"2011-06-01T09:48:38","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T13:48:38","slug":"americas-got-talent-inspiring-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/05\/americas-got-talent-inspiring-tv.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;America&#8217;s Got Talent&#8221; &#8230; Inspiring TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Walking on the moon amazed America&#039;s Got Talent!!!.flv\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gMIWtMIuLcQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>One of television&#8217;s most surprising success stories in recent years has been NBC&#8217;s <em>America&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel judged show, hosted by Nick Cannon is one of the few programs that can make you laugh and\/or cry in the same hour or two.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s because you find yourself pulling for acts to continue to improve, like a singer hitting that high note or the dancer wowing you with a new step.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more than singing or dancing to <em>America&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em>, including magic acts, acrobats, comedians and more genres that I can&#8217;t even think of.<\/p>\n<p>Mandel and Osbourne should be fine again as judges, though it will be interesting to see if Morgan can keep his ego in check after taking over for Larry King on CNN and making another appearance on <em>The Apprentice<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>America&#8217;s Got Talent<\/em> will do nothing if not surprise you &#8230; watch it Tuesday nights on NBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of television&#8217;s most surprising success stories in recent years has been NBC&#8217;s America&#8217;s Got Talent. The Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel judged show, hosted by Nick Cannon is one of the few programs that can make you laugh and\/or cry in the same hour or two. That&#8217;s because you find yourself pulling&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13,14,6,10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comedy-2","category-entertainment","category-game","category-opinion","category-reality","category-television"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;America&#039;s Got Talent&quot; ... Inspiring TV - Changing Channels<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/05\/americas-got-talent-inspiring-tv.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"&quot;America&#039;s Got Talent&quot; ... Inspiring TV - Changing Channels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"One of television&#8217;s most surprising success stories in recent years has been NBC&#8217;s America&#8217;s Got Talent. The Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel judged show, hosted by Nick Cannon is one of the few programs that can make you laugh and\/or cry in the same hour or two. That&#8217;s because you find yourself pulling&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/05\/americas-got-talent-inspiring-tv.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Changing Channels\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2011-05-31T15:48:13+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2011-06-01T13:48:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"mattaug\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"\"America's Got Talent\" ... Inspiring TV - Changing Channels","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/05\/americas-got-talent-inspiring-tv.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"\"America's Got Talent\" ... Inspiring TV - Changing Channels","og_description":"One of television&#8217;s most surprising success stories in recent years has been NBC&#8217;s America&#8217;s Got Talent. The Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne and Howie Mandel judged show, hosted by Nick Cannon is one of the few programs that can make you laugh and\/or cry in the same hour or two. That&#8217;s because you find yourself pulling&hellip;","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/05\/americas-got-talent-inspiring-tv.html","og_site_name":"Changing Channels","article_published_time":"2011-05-31T15:48:13+00:00","article_modified_time":"2011-06-01T13:48:38+00:00","author":"mattaug","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/05\/americas-got-talent-inspiring-tv.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/05\/americas-got-talent-inspiring-tv.html","name":"\"America's Got Talent\" ... Inspiring TV - Changing Channels","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-05-31T15:48:13+00:00","dateModified":"2011-06-01T13:48:38+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/#\/schema\/person\/53c63c3ad6201c97cca05aeac01f48c5"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/05\/americas-got-talent-inspiring-tv.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/05\/americas-got-talent-inspiring-tv.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/2011\/05\/americas-got-talent-inspiring-tv.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"&#8220;America&#8217;s Got Talent&#8221; &#8230; Inspiring TV"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/","name":"Changing Channels","description":"Beliefnet Voices - Matt Aug","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/#\/schema\/person\/53c63c3ad6201c97cca05aeac01f48c5","name":"mattaug","description":"I have been in journalism for over to decades ... which makes me, well, old! Seriously, I have been blessed to have worked for publications such as USA Today, Newsday and nfl.com and I am excited to have this opportunity to blog about television for beliefnet.","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/author\/mattaug"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/changingchannels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}