{"id":1150,"date":"2009-11-02T15:13:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T23:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2009-11-02T15:13:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T23:13:35","slug":"dark-days-for-the-clown-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/dark-days-for-the-clown-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark days for the clown house?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During all the economic <em>Sturm und Drang<\/em> of the last two years, <strong>MGM Mirage<\/strong> has &#8212; to its great credit &#8212; not been shy about offering comps, discounts and promotions to keep people coming back. However, its latest promotional allowances at <strong>Circus Circus<\/strong> reek ever so slightly of sheer desperation. The include a 10% discount for <strong>AAA<\/strong> members, active-duty military personnel, seniors 62+, airline employees and travel agents. What, no discount for sanitation workers?<\/p>\n<p>Also, Nevadans get 10% off for staying there two nights, 15% off for three. Is the citywide downdraft in room rates dragging the clown house over the edge? Or is a proliferation of empty land, projects in suspended animation (<strong>Fontainebleau<\/strong>, <strong>Echelon<\/strong>) and casinos in the ICU ward (<strong>Riviera<\/strong>) driving people away? Circus Circus was, the last time I visited, home to the most obnoxious timeshare pitchmen on the Strip, something else which never generates good word of mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During all the economic Sturm und Drang of the last two years, MGM Mirage has &#8212; to its great credit &#8212; not been shy about offering comps, discounts and promotions to keep people coming back. However, its latest promotional allowances &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/dark-days-for-the-clown-house\/\">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":[60,28,14,59,53,11,55,9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150"}],"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=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1151,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/1151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}