{"id":449,"date":"2015-08-11T06:12:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T06:12:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.browntrout.com\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2015-08-12T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T13:23:05","slug":"learn-history-with-reality-show-pawn-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.browntrout.com\/learn-history-with-reality-show-pawn-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn History\u00a0with Reality Show\u00a0&#8220;Pawn Stars&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popular History channel show \u201cPawn Stars,\" watched around the world, surrounds a popular pawnshop called Gold &amp; Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas. \u201cPawn Stars\u201d airs Mondays on the History Channel, with its development rooted in the history savvy Harrison family. The show surrounds three generations of the Harrison family and their expertise on the credibility of historical artifacts. Moreover,\u00a0BrownTrout publishes the official\u00a0Gold &amp; Silver Pawn Shop calendar.<\/p>\n<p>The show started in 2009, and the show\u2019s creator and producer, Rick Harrison, never expected the show to be a huge hit. The show appears in 150 countries, broadcasting in 38 languages, and the show has become one of the most popular reality shows on cable TV. In <a href=\"http:\/\/gspawn.com\/pawn-stars-rick-harrison-on-fame-family-being-a-history-nerd-and-designing-an-app\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Gold and Silver Pawn Shop <\/a>\u2019s Interview, Rick Harrison explained: \u201cI pitched the show for four years. Everyone kept telling me no one wants to watch a show about four fat guys in a pawn shop.\"<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/svLxiWEZ1JI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The biggest appeal of the show is mainly the history lessons throughout each episode, which captivate the audience in a light-hearted manner rather than a monotonous history lesson. \u201c(People) love to get history lessons from their uncle, not a professor,\" said Harrison. \"Young people love to watch the show because I can make all these antiques\u2019 history, all this history, relative to today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The show continues to produce intriguing and entertaining episodes for its viewers. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to get a lot more history lessons in and things like that. You know, it\u2019s a lot more history lessons, just a lot more stuff,\u201d said Harrison. \u201cWe\u2019re sort of back to [the way] we started the show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.history.com\/shows\/pawn-stars\/about\" target=\"_blank\">\"Pawn Stars\" Official Website <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/2015\/05\/14\/pawn-stars-talk-politics-and-promise-more-stuff-less-fluff-in-new-episodes\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Fox News Article on \"Pawn Stars\" <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The popular History channel show \u201cPawn Stars,&#8221; watched around the world, surrounds a popular pawnshop called Gold &amp; Silver Pawn Shop in Las Vegas. \u201cPawn Stars\u201d airs Mondays on the History Channel, with its development rooted in the history savvy Harrison family. The show surrounds three generations of the Harrison family and their expertise on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.browntrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.browntrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.browntrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.browntrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.browntrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.browntrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/blog.browntrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.browntrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.browntrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.browntrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.browntrout.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}