{"id":15943,"date":"2015-04-29T14:05:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-29T22:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=15943"},"modified":"2015-04-30T10:00:25","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T18:00:25","slug":"quote-of-the-day-627","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-627\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/riviera-pic2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/riviera-pic2.jpg\" alt=\"riviera-pic2\" width=\"299\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/riviera-pic2.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/riviera-pic2-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Outside the cabaret now called <strong>Le Bistro Lounge<\/strong>, however, the <strong>Riviera<\/strong> looked seedy, its decor suggesting that <strong>Jimmy Carter<\/strong> was still in the <strong>White House<\/strong>: pinball machines, worn carpet, old men in wheelchairs and oxygen masks joylessly playing the slot machines.&#8221; &#8212; <em>the<\/em> Los Angeles Times&#8217;\u00a0<em><strong>John M. Gliona<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/lasvegassun.com\/news\/2015\/apr\/29\/final-night-riviera-and-grand-goodbye-grand-old-da\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">chronicling the waning days<\/a> of one of the Strip&#8217;s last dowagers<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Outside the cabaret now called Le Bistro Lounge, however, the Riviera looked seedy, its decor suggesting that Jimmy Carter was still in the White House: pinball machines, worn carpet, old men in wheelchairs and oxygen masks joylessly playing the slot &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-627\/\">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":[140,55,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15943"}],"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=15943"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15955,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15943\/revisions\/15955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}