{"id":10314,"date":"2013-01-15T14:01:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T22:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=10314"},"modified":"2013-01-15T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T22:43:54","slug":"what-manner-of-idiot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/what-manner-of-idiot\/","title":{"rendered":"What manner of idiot &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10315\" title=\"Caesars image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Caesars-image-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Caesars-image-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Caesars-image-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Caesars-image.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8230; keeps fountains running during a hard freeze? A <strong>Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> executive, who else? Never mind that pipes have been bursting all over the valley (including one at <em>LVA<\/em> HQ) and that <strong>Lake Tahoe<\/strong> casinos have experienced &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/news\/cold-snap-brings-plumbing-issues-to-las-vegas-valley-187015971.html\" target=\"_blank\">severe water and flood damage to the hotel and gambling areas<\/a>&#8221; from ruptures, <a href=\"http:\/\/cdcgamingreports.com\/bitter-cold-bursts-pipes-floods-tahoe-casinos\/?doing_wp_cron=1358264003.7242269515991210937500\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">wreaking havoc upon two Caesars-owned casinos<\/a>, one <strong>Tropicana Entertainment<\/strong> joint and a <strong>Columbia Sussex<\/strong> slot house. No, some doofus at <strong>Caesars Palace<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/multimedia\/Caesars-Palace-fountains-covered-in-ice-187011731.html\" target=\"_blank\"> just had to keep the fountains going<\/a>, even when they froze <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/columnists\/normclarke\/breaking_news\/COLD-SNAP-FREEZES-CAESARS-FOUNTAINS-186985861.html\" target=\"_blank\">two days<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/columnists\/normclarke\/vegas_update\/ICE-BUILDUP-AT-CAESARS-FOUNTAINS-186994481.html\" target=\"_blank\">in a row<\/a>. It kills <strong>Gary Loveman<\/strong> to do anything remotely resembling maintenance but Caesars sure chose to live dangerously with this fountain caper. Wouldn&#8217;t you love to be a fly on the wall when the repair bill lands on his desk?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; keeps fountains running during a hard freeze? A Caesars Entertainment executive, who else? Never mind that pipes have been bursting all over the valley (including one at LVA HQ) and that Lake Tahoe casinos have experienced &#8220;severe water and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/what-manner-of-idiot\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,133,28,117,7,76,9,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10314"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10318,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10314\/revisions\/10318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}