{"id":11055,"date":"2013-06-28T13:31:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T21:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=11055"},"modified":"2013-06-28T13:31:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-28T21:31:45","slug":"big-brother-sheldon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/big-brother-sheldon\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Brother Sheldon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Lan7yhpqIIo?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Lan7yhpqIIo?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegasinc.com\/news\/2013\/jun\/27\/adelson-steps-opposition-internet-gaming\/?utm_source=The+Flash+-+June+28%2C+2013&amp;utm_campaign=Flash+-+June+7%2C+2013&amp;utm_medium=email\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">Professional sourpuss<\/a> <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t think you should gamble &#8230; on the <strong>Internet<\/strong>, that is. (&#8220;In the history of bad ideas, this has to be one of the worst,&#8221; the ad glumly intones.) In Adelson&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/stopinternetgambling.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">intellectually dishonest world<\/a> it&#8217;s perfectly OK to gamble in <!--more-->your <strong>Venelazzo<\/strong> hotel room on a <strong>Cantor Gaming<\/strong> mobile device &#8212; but to play at a Web casino on your mobile phone? Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad! Very bad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Internet gambling &#8230; takes gambling took far.&#8221; OK, Sheldon: How far is far enough? Blowing it all at a <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong>-owned casino, maybe? Because that&#8217;s the message you&#8217;re putting across. Hypocrisy, thy name is Adelson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional sourpuss Sheldon Adelson doesn&#8217;t think you should gamble &#8230; on the Internet, that is. (&#8220;In the history of bad ideas, this has to be one of the worst,&#8221; the ad glumly intones.) In Adelson&#8217;s intellectually dishonest world it&#8217;s perfectly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/big-brother-sheldon\/\">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":[148,37,90,12,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055"}],"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=11055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11056,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11055\/revisions\/11056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}