{"id":14852,"date":"2014-10-27T09:21:08","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=14852"},"modified":"2014-10-27T09:21:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T17:21:08","slug":"quote-of-the-day-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-600\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Icahn-pensive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Icahn-pensive-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Icahn pensive\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Icahn-pensive-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Icahn-pensive-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Icahn-pensive.jpg 488w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Frankly, several of my advisers have told me that if the city and the state did not come up with the money, they&#8217;d be doing me a large favor.\u00a0Even if we get the concessions from the city and the state, we&#8217;re going to lose a lot of money. Everybody thinks I&#8217;m trying very hard to do this. I&#8217;m not.&#8221;\u00a0&#8212; <em><strong>Carl Icahn<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/ggbnews.com\/issue\/vol-12-no-41-october-27-2014\/article\/icahn-taj-mahal-likely-to-close\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">on his attempted takeover<\/a> of <strong>Trump Taj Mahal<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Frankly, several of my advisers have told me that if the city and the state did not come up with the money, they&#8217;d be doing me a large favor.\u00a0Even if we get the concessions from the city and the state, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-600\/\">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":[23,82,169],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14852"}],"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=14852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14853,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14852\/revisions\/14853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}