{"id":10868,"date":"2013-05-21T14:21:50","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T22:21:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=10868"},"modified":"2013-05-22T13:02:23","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T21:02:23","slug":"mgm-no-time-wasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/mgm-no-time-wasted\/","title":{"rendered":"MGM: No time wasted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10869\" title=\"Monte Carlo fence.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Monte-Carlo-fence.jpg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Monte-Carlo-fence.jpg.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Monte-Carlo-fence.jpg-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Monte-Carlo-fence.jpg-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>Say what you like about <strong>MGM Resorts International<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mgmresorts.investorroom.com\/2013-04-18-MGM-Resorts-Outlines-Vision-For-Dynamic-Entertainment-District-in-Las-Vegas-Featuring-World-Class-Arena-Dining-Bar-Scene-and-Retail\" target=\"_blank\">plans for<\/a> <strong>Monte Carlo<\/strong> and <strong>New York-York<\/strong>, the company isn&#8217;t letting any grass grow under its feet: As of 9 a.m. this morning, the Monte Carlo facade was merely walled off with naked cyclone fencing. By 3:30 p.m. &#8212; <em>voila!<\/em> &#8212; a logo-festooned banner had wrapped the soon-to-be-demolished Strip entrance, where three new entrances will replace some forlorn <em>faux<\/em>-Roman statuary. A big <em>S&amp;G<\/em> &#8216;thank you&#8217; to <strong>Ashley L. Piner<\/strong> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/vegasforbeginners\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Vegas for Beginners<\/em><\/a> <strong>Facebook<\/strong> page for this photo update of what appears to be a fast-track project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Say what you like about MGM Resorts International&#8216;s plans for Monte Carlo and New York-York, the company isn&#8217;t letting any grass grow under its feet: As of 9 a.m. this morning, the Monte Carlo facade was merely walled off with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/mgm-no-time-wasted\/\">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":[65,28,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868"}],"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=10868"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10879,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10868\/revisions\/10879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}