{"id":1720,"date":"2009-12-30T15:52:24","date_gmt":"2009-12-30T23:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2009-12-30T15:52:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-30T23:52:41","slug":"keep-your-hands-off-my-slagheap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/keep-your-hands-off-my-slagheap\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep your hands off my slag heap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"429\" height=\"295\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/vp.mgnetwork.net\/viewer.swf?u=97b7f1fc457c102da6fd001ec92a4a0d&amp;z=CMH\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"429\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/vp.mgnetwork.net\/viewer.swf?u=97b7f1fc457c102da6fd001ec92a4a0d&amp;z=CMH\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If you look up &#8220;urban blight,&#8221; you&#8217;re liable to find images like these, which show the area in which <strong>Penn National Gaming<\/strong> wants to build its <strong>Columbus<\/strong>, <strong>Ohio<\/strong> casino. At present, the casino to be is but a bunch of rubble alongside a rail line &#8212; but neighbors are going all NIMBY on Penn. Their solicitude rings a mite hollow, given that they&#8217;re only to eager to palm off the casino on <em>somebody else&#8217;s<\/em> neighborhood &#8230; somebody whose objections might be just as valid. At least the wasteland Penn presently covets isn&#8217;t likely to put slot machines and youngsters into close contact, whereas the neighborhood group would perfectly happy to plunk the casino down at a shopping mall. Like that&#8217;s gonna go over real well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you look up &#8220;urban blight,&#8221; you&#8217;re liable to find images like these, which show the area in which Penn National Gaming wants to build its Columbus, Ohio casino. At present, the casino to be is but a bunch of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/keep-your-hands-off-my-slagheap\/\">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":[71,69,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720"}],"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=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}