{"id":12266,"date":"2013-12-12T17:15:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T01:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=12266"},"modified":"2013-12-12T17:15:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T01:15:06","slug":"twas-the-toga-before-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/twas-the-toga-before-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Twas the toga before Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"253\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" 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\/O5LVyTh_aUI?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"450\" height=\"253\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O5LVyTh_aUI?hl=en_US&amp;version=3\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>While it was saying &#8220;Bah, humbug!&#8221; to the <strong>Massachusetts Gaming Commission<\/strong>, along with a lump of coal, <strong>Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> released this cheerful swatch of Christmas kitch to the public. (Special thanks to those entertainers &#8212; like <strong>Taylor Hicks<\/strong> &#8212; who clearly practiced their parts.) <strong>Mac King<\/strong> and I both are alumni of <strong>Macalester College<\/strong>, in <strong>St. Paul<\/strong>. Obviously, he has put his degree to better use than have I. And finally, congratulations to <strong>Veronic<\/strong>, whose <strong>Bally&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/vacationplanner-showdetail.cfm?ShowID=706\" class=\"broken_link\">residency<\/a> has been extended through 2014. Job well done.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it was saying &#8220;Bah, humbug!&#8221; to the Massachusetts Gaming Commission, along with a lump of coal, Caesars Entertainment released this cheerful swatch of Christmas kitch to the public. (Special thanks to those entertainers &#8212; like Taylor Hicks &#8212; who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/twas-the-toga-before-christmas\/\">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":[28,4,7,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266"}],"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=12266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12267,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12266\/revisions\/12267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}