{"id":1709,"date":"2009-12-30T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T21:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2009-12-31T09:29:35","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:29:35","slug":"back-on-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/back-on-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Back on the air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a Yuletide hiatus occasioned by the need to relocate <em>S&amp;G<\/em>&#8216;s offsite base of operations (meaning that I can now boast of a bedroom window with a view of the <strong>Tropicana<\/strong>), I&#8217;m back and scrambling to catch up. My new home office has bars on the window and I&#8217;m writing this as I listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/San-Quentin-Legacy-Johnny-Cash\/dp\/B000IJ7RE0\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&amp;s=music&amp;qid=1262206814&amp;sr=1-2\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Johnny Cash at San Quentin<\/em><\/a>. Hmmmm &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Let&#8217;s hope <strong>Cirque du Soleil<\/strong> never gets its clown mitts on the <strong>Johnny Cash<\/strong> catalog. Imagine the musical emasculation that would result.)<\/p>\n<p>Moving the accumulation of 11 years in Las Vegas (including a pile of books by Vegas-centric authors <strong>Lee Barnes<\/strong> and <strong>David Kranes<\/strong>) has been no small enterprise. Anyway, I&#8217;d better make a go of this journalism thing because, after spending yesterday wiping baseboards and mirrors I realize that I&#8217;d be a complete failure as a janitor.<\/p>\n<p>But while the Significant Other and I were schlepping boxes in and out of storage, the governor of <strong>Nevada<\/strong> had <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.state.nv.us\/PressReleases\/2009\/2009-12-24_Santa.htm\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">nothing better to do than this<\/a>. <em>Oy vey<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a Yuletide hiatus occasioned by the need to relocate S&amp;G&#8216;s offsite base of operations (meaning that I can now boast of a bedroom window with a view of the Tropicana), I&#8217;m back and scrambling to catch up. My new &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/back-on-the-air\/\">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":[48,80,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709"}],"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=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1729,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}