{"id":126,"date":"2008-04-29T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/4\/29\/Stumped-by-a-reader"},"modified":"2008-04-29T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T18:06:00","slug":"stumped-by-a-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/stumped-by-a-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Stumped by a reader"},"content":{"rendered":"

For those of you who don't click on the "Comments" link, my last update on the casino freeze in Macao<\/b> prompted a response that left me, momentarily, at a loss for an answer (other than "I'd hate to pass up an opportunity to make fun of Stanley Ho, that's why.")<\/p>\n

The question was: Why should we care about the international misadventures of companies who flee American affordability while chasing the Chinese dollar?<\/i><\/p>\n

Somebody else want to take a crack at that? Anyone?<\/p>\n

I<\/b><\/i>n<\/i> bobblehead <\/b>veritas<\/b><\/i>. In case 15 seasons (and counting) of sub-.500 baseball haven't gotten the message across, Pittsburgh Pirates<\/b> ownership makes sure Pirates fans get the message<\/a>. Mutual, I'm sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For those of you who don't click on the "Comments" link, my last update on the casino freeze in Macao prompted a response that left me, momentarily, at a loss for an answer (other than "I'd hate to pass up … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[113,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"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=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}