{"id":17105,"date":"2015-10-28T10:40:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T18:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=17105"},"modified":"2015-10-28T10:40:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T18:40:46","slug":"quote-of-the-day-684","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-684\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Packer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Packer-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Packer\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Packer-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Packer-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Packer.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Nothing is a straight line up and weeding out corruption is an admirable thing for a government to do.\u00a0Yes, in the short term it&#8217;s painful for us. But I believe the rise of the Chinese middle class is equal to the rise of the Internet in them being the two macro things that will change the world the most over the next 50 years.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>James Packer<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/china\/james-packer-says-chinese-punters-will-eventually-soothe-his-macau-casino-pain-20151027-gkjjyn.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">getting in his two cents<\/a> on <strong>China<\/strong>&#8216;s tightened regulation of the <strong>Macao<\/strong> casino economy<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Nothing is a straight line up and weeding out corruption is an admirable thing for a government to do.\u00a0Yes, in the short term it&#8217;s painful for us. But I believe the rise of the Chinese middle class is equal to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-684\/\">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":[14,96,62,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17105"}],"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=17105"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17106,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17105\/revisions\/17106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}