{"id":1683,"date":"2009-12-22T17:16:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T01:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2009-12-22T17:19:37","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T01:19:37","slug":"you-cant-escape-citycenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/you-cant-escape-citycenter\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You can&#8217;t escape CityCenter.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sWjW-1LAVzg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/sWjW-1LAVzg&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nNo, but I really wish I could when I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2009\/12\/19\/las-vegas-gambling-citycenter-business-billionaires-citycenter.html\" target=\"_blank\">yet another story<\/a> posing the boneheaded question, &#8220;Can <strong>CityCenter<\/strong> save <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong>?&#8221; The query is as dumb as the answer is obvious: No, it can&#8217;t. No one megaresort property can. CityCenter&#8217;s got enough challenges without being lumbered with the &#8220;Savior of the Strip&#8221; burden, thank you. The available data suggests that the best case scenario is &#8212; to paraphrase a line from <em>Das Boot<\/em> &#8212; it throws a shovelful of sand under our keel.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, if &#8211;as the <em>Forbes<\/em> reporter posits &#8212; <strong>Aria<\/strong> is a-swarm with &#8220;hoards [<em>sic<\/em>] of gamblers,&#8221; that would explain why everybody else has been struggling: A crafty and secretive <strong>Jim Murren<\/strong> has been hoarding all the players. Jim, let thy people go!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, but I really wish I could when I read yet another story posing the boneheaded question, &#8220;Can CityCenter save Las Vegas?&#8221; The query is as dumb as the answer is obvious: No, it can&#8217;t. No one megaresort property can. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/you-cant-escape-citycenter\/\">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":[56,14,11,10,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683"}],"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=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1685,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/1685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}