{"id":17561,"date":"2016-01-13T10:36:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-13T18:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=17561"},"modified":"2016-01-13T10:36:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T18:36:35","slug":"quote-of-the-day-708","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-708\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Right off, the proposal set off a howl of opposition from legislators against any deal that might be seen as &#8216;an expansion of gambling.&#8217; (As if there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Florida-flag.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-17562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Florida-flag.png\" alt=\"Florida flag\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Florida-flag.png 275w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Florida-flag-150x100.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/><\/a>some moral difference between, say, Floridians losing money while playing the electronic virtual roulette and craps machines now available at South <strong>Florida<\/strong> casinos and Floridians betting at actual roulette wheels or craps tables.) Perhaps it\u2019s the opposition of influential companies like <strong>Disney World<\/strong> that brings moral clarity to anti-gambling lawmakers.&#8221; &#8212; Miami Herald <em>columnist <strong>Fred Grimm<\/strong> on the multifarious issues and myriad opponents <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/news-columns-blogs\/fred-grimm\/article54159795.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">lining up against<\/a> Gov. <strong>Rick Scott<\/strong>&#8216;s compact with the <strong>Seminole Tribe<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Right off, the proposal set off a howl of opposition from legislators against any deal that might be seen as &#8216;an expansion of gambling.&#8217; (As if there\u2019s some moral difference between, say, Floridians losing money while playing the electronic virtual &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-708\/\">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":[36,33,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17561"}],"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=17561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17563,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17561\/revisions\/17563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}