{"id":17120,"date":"2015-10-29T11:10:14","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T19:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=17120"},"modified":"2015-10-29T11:10:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T19:10:14","slug":"quote-of-the-day-685","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-685\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you go back to January 1 this year, everyone was still hopeful for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lawrence-Ho-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-12174\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lawrence-Ho-2-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Lawrence Ho 2\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lawrence-Ho-2-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lawrence-Ho-2-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Lawrence-Ho-2.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>a quick recovery and the fact the gaming industry was like this bulletproof industry \u2013 the idea you could throw grenades at it and it was going to be fine.\u00a0But I think their attitude has changed throughout this process.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Melco Crown Entertainment<\/strong> co-chair <strong>Lawrence Ho<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/melcos-lawrence-ho-says-macau-may-reverse-gambling-restrictions-on-budget-woes-20151028-gkl9n1.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">hinting at a revocation<\/a> of <strong>Macao<\/strong>&#8216;s proposed smoking ban and lighter visa restrictions &#8230; but not an increase in new table games<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you go back to January 1 this year, everyone was still hopeful for a quick recovery and the fact the gaming industry was like this bulletproof industry \u2013 the idea you could throw grenades at it and it was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-685\/\">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":[94,62,93,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17120"}],"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=17120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17121,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17120\/revisions\/17121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}