{"id":1738,"date":"2009-12-31T11:13:49","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1738"},"modified":"2010-01-04T17:15:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T01:15:29","slug":"stanley-ho-vs-mgm-mirage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/stanley-ho-vs-mgm-mirage\/","title":{"rendered":"Stanley Ho vs. MGM Mirage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whose casino would you rather visit &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qFH0kh1bJJs&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/qFH0kh1bJJs&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_GB&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <strong>Stanley Ho<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Oceanus at Jai Alai<\/strong> or &#8230;<br \/>\n<object id=\"flashObj\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\" \/><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=52149280001&amp;playerID=30317506001&amp;domain=embed&amp;\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"https:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/30317506001?isVid=1&amp;publisherID=29906170001\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"flashObj\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=52149280001&amp;playerID=30317506001&amp;domain=embed&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"flashObj\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"486\" height=\"412\" src=\"https:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9\/30317506001?isVid=1&amp;publisherID=29906170001\" name=\"flashObj\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" swliveconnect=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" seamlesstabbing=\"false\" base=\"https:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" flashvars=\"videoId=52149280001&amp;playerID=30317506001&amp;domain=embed&amp;\" bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n&#8230; <strong>MGM Mirage<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>CityCenter<\/strong>? I&#8217;ll bet you&#8217;ve never heard a megaresort described as a &#8220;campus&#8221; before. True, CityCenter has <strong>Henry Moore<\/strong> and <strong>Maya Lin<\/strong> among its roster of artists. But does it have a glove worn by <strong>Michael Jackson<\/strong>? Or Stanley Ho&#8217;s <strong>giant truffle<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <strong>Ian Sutton<\/strong>, of <strong>GamingFloor.com<\/strong>, for the inspired juxtaposition. His site also features a video clip of <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>&#8216;s latest &#8220;progress&#8221; report on <strong>Marina Bay Sands<\/strong>. Symbolically, the clip doesn&#8217;t play &#8212; it just loads interminably.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whose casino would you rather visit &#8230; &#8230; Stanley Ho&#8216;s Oceanus at Jai Alai or &#8230; &#8230; MGM Mirage&#8216;s CityCenter? I&#8217;ll bet you&#8217;ve never heard a megaresort described as a &#8220;campus&#8221; before. True, CityCenter has Henry Moore and Maya Lin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/stanley-ho-vs-mgm-mirage\/\">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":[65,62,126,12,108,61,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738"}],"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=1738"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1777,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1738\/revisions\/1777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}