{"id":16867,"date":"2015-09-29T08:48:42","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T16:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=16867"},"modified":"2015-09-29T08:48:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T16:48:42","slug":"quote-of-the-day-671","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-671\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mashpee-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-11160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mashpee-4-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Mashpee 4\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mashpee-4-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mashpee-4-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mashpee-4.jpg 738w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Under federal law, the state cannot stop an Indian casino from opening, but the Gaming Commission can help it succeed, by denying the <strong>Brockton<\/strong> license. Given the debt <strong>Massachusetts<\/strong> owes to the Wampanoags, that only seems right.&#8221; &#8212; <em>the editorial page of the<\/em> MetroWest Daily News, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.metrowestdailynews.com\/article\/20150927\/OPINION\/150926467\/2011\/OPINION\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">weighing in favor<\/a> of the <strong>Mashpee Wampanoags<\/strong>&#8216; case for a casino over that of <strong>Neil Bluhm<\/strong>&#8216;s Brockton proposal<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Under federal law, the state cannot stop an Indian casino from opening, but the Gaming Commission can help it succeed, by denying the Brockton license. Given the debt Massachusetts owes to the Wampanoags, that only seems right.&#8221; &#8212; the editorial &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-671\/\">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":[112,91,25,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867"}],"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=16867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16868,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16867\/revisions\/16868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}