{"id":14050,"date":"2014-07-10T08:42:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=14050"},"modified":"2014-07-10T08:42:17","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T16:42:17","slug":"quote-of-the-day-581","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-581\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #222222;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/poker-card.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/poker-card.jpg\" alt=\"poker-card\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/poker-card.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/poker-card-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u201cIts purpose is to prevent collusion among poker players.\u00a0It is the same reason that we prohibited texting and other forms of communication that other players can\u2019t understand or hear or see.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>South Dakota Gaming Commission<\/strong> Executive Director <strong>Larry Eliason<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/rapidcityjournal.com\/news\/local\/communities\/lead-deadwood\/new-deadwood-card-game-rules-no-phones-and-english-only\/article_8778f028-9e8a-5654-bc94-c18ec033b24f.html\" target=\"_blank\">the state&#8217;s new, English-only rule for players at card games<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cThe reason we can [do it] is because gaming is a suspect activity.\u00a0It is not subject to the same protection that other activities are,\u201d explained commission attorney <strong>Mike Shaw<\/strong><\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIts purpose is to prevent collusion among poker players.\u00a0It is the same reason that we prohibited texting and other forms of communication that other players can\u2019t understand or hear or see.\u201d &#8212; South Dakota Gaming Commission Executive Director Larry Eliason &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-581\/\">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":[25,182],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050"}],"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=14050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14051,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14050\/revisions\/14051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}