{"id":17651,"date":"2016-01-28T16:20:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T00:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=17651"},"modified":"2016-01-28T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-29T00:20:28","slug":"quote-of-the-day-711","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-711\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mgm-pic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mgm-pic.jpg\" alt=\"mgm-pic\" width=\"299\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mgm-pic.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mgm-pic-150x100.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The <strong>Las Vegas Strip<\/strong> is a uniquely American landmark, an amalgamation of public square and private space, famous around the world for projecting bounty to all comers. [<strong>MGM Resorts International<\/strong>]\u00a0has for decades benefited from being part of that, but now it has violated the public trust. It might propose strip-mining the <strong>Grand Canyon<\/strong> next.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> journalist <strong>C. Moon Reed<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/op-ed\/la-oe-0127-reed-las-vegas-strip-parking-20160127-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">going nuclear<\/a> on MGM&#8217;s pay-for-parking initiative<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Las Vegas Strip is a uniquely American landmark, an amalgamation of public square and private space, famous around the world for projecting bounty to all comers. [MGM Resorts International]\u00a0has for decades benefited from being part of that, but now &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-711\/\">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":[11,9,19,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17651"}],"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=17651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17652,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17651\/revisions\/17652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}