{"id":1240,"date":"2009-11-08T12:27:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2009-11-08T12:28:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T20:28:20","slug":"use-found-for-the-harmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/use-found-for-the-harmon\/","title":{"rendered":"Use found for The Harmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, &#8220;Dubai&#8217;s Diminuendo,&#8221; the &#8220;Harmonini,&#8221; Baldwin&#8217;s Bump, whatever you want to call it, has been given a purpose in life. Strip hotel guests awoke in the wee hours of Saturday morning to behold the following:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1241\" title=\"Harmon wrap\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Harmon-wrap.jpg\" alt=\"Harmon wrap\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Harmon-wrap.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Harmon-wrap-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If nothing else, the truncated <strong>Harmon<\/strong> tower, which was to have housed a boutique hotel and 207 condos (before being lopped off at the midway point), turns out to be good for something &#8230; being wrapped with a mammoth sign for <strong>Cirque du Soleil<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Viva Elvis<\/em>. It may not be the highest and best use of the property, which won&#8217;t be finished for another year (perhaps never, according to one local journo), but <strong>MGM Mirage<\/strong> has got to make the place earn its keep somehow. (<em>Photo by <strong>JeffInOKC<\/strong><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, &#8220;Dubai&#8217;s Diminuendo,&#8221; the &#8220;Harmonini,&#8221; Baldwin&#8217;s Bump, whatever you want to call it, has been given a purpose in life. Strip hotel guests awoke in the wee hours of Saturday morning to behold the following: If nothing else, the truncated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/use-found-for-the-harmon\/\">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":[65,80,56,28,4,53,11,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"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=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}