{"id":1075,"date":"2009-10-28T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T17:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1075"},"modified":"2009-10-28T15:46:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T23:46:44","slug":"dont-panic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/dont-panic\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Don&#8217;t panic&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Most of you will recognize that as a critical maxim from <em>The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy<\/em>. It&#8217;s also what to do if you comments don&#8217;t appear straightaway on the<em> S&amp;G<\/em> site. In our new setup they won&#8217;t post immediately &#8212; not because of the <strong>Comment-Eating Server<\/strong> &#8212; due to one of the security protocols on <strong>WordPress<\/strong>. All comments go into a &#8220;moderation&#8221; holding pattern and then are approved, one by one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While this may result in a loss of immediate gratification, it does guarantee one thing: Spammers will now be barred at the door. Just think of WordPress as a nightclub bouncer and spam messages as so many douchebags wearing <strong>Christian Audigier<\/strong> apparel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Also: We&#8217;ve received &#8220;pro&#8221; and &#8220;con&#8221; votes on the new typeface, which I&#8217;ll admit to liking because I don&#8217;t have to squint to read it. As for opening pictures at full size in new windows or tabs, I&#8217;ll look into that. It depends on A) whether it&#8217;s feasible with WordPress and B) how much more coding that will entail, especially if it&#8217;s me who has to input it. What we&#8217;ve got now isn&#8217;t ideal but it&#8217;s shaping up as a huge improvement on what we had before.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1076 alignnone\" title=\"wayne-pic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wayne-pic.jpg\" alt=\"wayne-pic\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The show we&#8217;ll be seeing tonight<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1078\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/gal_alma_ab-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The show we<\/em> wish <em>we&#8217;ll be seeing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>I&#8217;ve been getting e-mails<\/strong> about Australian terpsichorean phenom <strong>Kym Johnson<\/strong> ever since her red-carpet appearance at <strong>Wayne Newton<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/vacationplanner-showdetail.cfm?ShowID=530\" target=\"_self\" class=\"broken_link\"><em>Once Before I Go<\/em><\/a> opening (tonight) was announced. Ms. Johnson, for those of you who have been watching <em>Monday Night Football<\/em> or the CBS comedy block, is <strong>Donny Osmond<\/strong>&#8216;s partner on <em>Dancing with the Stars<\/em>. The duo seems &#8212; knock wood &#8212; exceptionally likely to make it to the final round and probably win. (Kym is very popular and has never taken home the <strong>Mirrorball Trophy<\/strong>, so sentiment is in her corner.) Now, I could post bikini photos of Kym, but that would be cruel, so instead &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1077\" title=\"cherylburkekym1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/cherylburkekym1.jpg\" alt=\"cherylburkekym1\" width=\"445\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/cherylburkekym1.jpg 445w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/cherylburkekym1-229x300.jpg 229w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/>&#8230; here&#8217;s a foretaste of what we hope to see on the red carpet tonight. That, obviously, is <strong>Cheryl &#8220;The Body&#8221; Burke<\/strong> on the right, though Kym&#8217;s none too shabby in the curvature department, is she?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tonight will also provide an opportunity to check out the new bells and whistles at the <strong>Tropicana Las Vegas<\/strong>&#8216; Tiffany Theater. It was already looking pretty spiffed up when the Wayner held his press conference. Now we&#8217;ll find out how good the revamped audio and video systems are. <strong>Sam Nazarian<\/strong>, up at the Sahara, might take a hint or two from <strong>Alex Yemenidjian<\/strong> and spring for &#8212; at the very least &#8212; a new showroom curtain. The one I saw last week was so tattered and frayed it would embarrass a high school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you will recognize that as a critical maxim from The Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galaxy. It&#8217;s also what to do if you comments don&#8217;t appear straightaway on the S&amp;G site. In our new setup they won&#8217;t post immediately &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/dont-panic\/\">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":[48,28,4,54,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"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=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1081,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}