{"id":12624,"date":"2014-02-02T22:20:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T06:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=12624"},"modified":"2014-02-02T22:21:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T06:21:20","slug":"quote-of-the-day-542","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-542\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[<strong>Oliver<\/strong>]\u00a0<strong>Cromwell<\/strong>, who claimed to be acting in <strong>God\u2019<\/strong>s interest with the more-or-less indiscriminate slaughter of Catholics, was a puritan. He fervently believed in simple dress, simple speech and an end to the cloying fancies of royalty and monarchs. And he specifically banned gambling, drinking, and sporting events. Failure to abide by his puritan moral code got you severe physical punishment, followed by death. It\u2019s kind of like Caesars has selected the <strong>Ayatollah Khomeini<\/strong> as the avatar of their new casino.&#8221; &#8212; <strong><em>Launce Rake<\/em><\/strong><em>, on <\/em><strong><em>Caesars Entertainment<\/em><\/strong><em>&#8216;s <\/em><a href=\"launcerake.com\/2014\/02\/01\/the-cromwell\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\"><em>daffy new casino brand<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[Oliver]\u00a0Cromwell, who claimed to be acting in God\u2019s interest with the more-or-less indiscriminate slaughter of Catholics, was a puritan. He fervently believed in simple dress, simple speech and an end to the cloying fancies of royalty and monarchs. And he &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-542\/\">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":[7,140],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624"}],"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=12624"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12626,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12624\/revisions\/12626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}