{"id":154,"date":"2009-07-23T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/7\/23\/Quote-of-the-Day"},"modified":"2021-10-10T05:24:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T13:24:16","slug":"quote-of-the-day-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/Sig_s_choo_choo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><em>Sig Rogich&#8217;s choo-choo to nowhere. Some parts of Sig sold separately.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even with the <strong>Victorville-Palmdale<\/strong> link, which is not a dead certainty, a <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> rider who wanted to see the Magic Kingdom would have to travel from Sin City to Victorville to <strong>Palmdale<\/strong> to <strong>Sylmar<\/strong> to <strong>Burbank<\/strong> to <strong>Los Angeles<\/strong> to <strong>Norwalk<\/strong> to <strong>Anaheim<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Start early if you want to see the fireworks.&#8221; &#8212; CityLife Editor <em><strong>Steve Sebelius<\/strong> on the <strong>Harry Reid<\/strong>\/<strong>Sig Rogich<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegascitylife.com\/articles\/2009\/07\/09\/opinion\/coffee_and_outrage\/iq_29864881.txt\">juice train<\/a><\/em>. <em>Speaking of &#8220;juice,&#8221;<\/em> \u00fcber<em>-lobbyist (and Reid crony) <strong>Harvey Whittemore<\/strong> has prevailed again in one of the greasiest juice jobs I&#8217;ve ever seen. Poor <strong>John Ascuaga&#8217;s Nugget<\/strong>; it never stood a chance<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sig Rogich&#8217;s choo-choo to nowhere. Some parts of Sig sold separately. &#8220;Even with the Victorville-Palmdale link, which is not a dead certainty, a Las Vegas rider who wanted to see the Magic Kingdom would have to travel from Sin City &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-9\/\">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":[34,28,33,79,19,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"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=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30155,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions\/30155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}