{"id":11817,"date":"2013-10-16T12:38:14","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=11817"},"modified":"2013-10-16T12:38:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T20:38:14","slug":"quote-of-the-day-509","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-509\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Liberace-slot.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-8730\" alt=\"Liberace slot\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Liberace-slot-82x150.gif\" width=\"82\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Liberace-slot-82x150.gif 82w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Liberace-slot-165x300.gif 165w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Liberace-slot.gif 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 82px) 100vw, 82px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Evoking the spirits of Mayor <strong>Fiorello H. La Guardia<\/strong> and <strong>Gallagher<\/strong> the Comedian, a small group of antigambling activists demolished a defunct slot machine outside the Capitol on Tuesday in the latest attempt to draw attention to the \u201cNo\u201d campaign, which is trailing in polls against a more organized and better financed \u201cYes\u201d side in the fight over Proposal No. 1.&#8221; &#8212; The New York Times<em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/10\/16\/nyregion\/gambling-opponents-take-sledgehammer-to-a-slot-machine.html?adx\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">reporting on a publicity stunt<\/a> staged by casino opponents in <strong>Albany<\/strong> yesterday. If your campaign tactics are being likened to a Gallagher performance it may be time to call it a day<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Evoking the spirits of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia and Gallagher the Comedian, a small group of antigambling activists demolished a defunct slot machine outside the Capitol on Tuesday in the latest attempt to draw attention to the \u201cNo\u201d campaign, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-509\/\">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":[26,101,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817"}],"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=11817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11818,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11817\/revisions\/11818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}