{"id":17176,"date":"2015-11-06T14:17:03","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T22:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=17176"},"modified":"2015-11-06T14:18:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T22:18:05","slug":"as-the-showboat-turns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/as-the-showboat-turns\/","title":{"rendered":"As the Showboat turns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Will the <strong>Showboat<\/strong> have a new owner (<strong>Bart Blatstein<\/strong>) on Monday? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pressofatlanticcity.com\/communities\/atlantic-city_pleasantville_brigantine\/will-blatstein-buy-former-showboat-casino-on-monday\/article_0d152c92-842c-11e5-a04c-a3bbead36fda.html\" target=\"_blank\">Only its hairdresser knows for sure<\/a>. Will <strong>Caesars Entertainment<\/strong>&#8216;s removal of its gaming entitlement trump (pardon the pun) <strong>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Showboat_Atlantic_City.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13931\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Showboat_Atlantic_City-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Showboat_Atlantic_City\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Showboat_Atlantic_City-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Showboat_Atlantic_City-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Showboat_Atlantic_City.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Entertainment Resorts<\/strong> CEO (and civic villain) <strong>Bob Griffin<\/strong>&#8216;s mandate that it be run as a hotel-casino or nothing? Will mercurial\u00a0<strong>Glenn Straub<\/strong> find a way to contest the sale to Blatstein despite having no legal standing in the matter? Will he be able\u00a0to siphon heat and electricity from the Showboat to power <strong>Revel<\/strong>? Continuing his scorched-earth campaign <em>in re<\/em> the Showboat, Straub threatened\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s ours.\u00a0There\u2019s nobody that\u2019s going to get title to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tune in Monday for the next exciting episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will the Showboat have a new owner (Bart Blatstein) on Monday? Only its hairdresser knows for sure. Will Caesars Entertainment&#8216;s removal of its gaming entitlement trump (pardon the pun) Trump Entertainment Resorts CEO (and civic villain) Bob Griffin&#8216;s mandate that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/as-the-showboat-turns\/\">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":[23,185,7,157,169],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17176"}],"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=17176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17178,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17176\/revisions\/17178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}