{"id":17821,"date":"2016-03-02T11:49:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T19:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=17821"},"modified":"2018-11-09T08:58:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T16:58:47","slug":"quote-of-the-day-719","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-719\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12831\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/murren_t198.jpg\" alt=\"murren_t198\" width=\"198\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/murren_t198.jpg 198w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/murren_t198-120x150.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>\u201cI\u2019m supportive of both those ventures, but I\u2019m absolutely opposed [to] \u2026 any attempt to rob the <strong>Las Vegas Convention Center<\/strong> of its desperately needed cash to build anything \u2014 whether it\u2019s a stadium, or a launching pad to the Moon, or an amusement ride or any other boondoggle \u2014 when we need so desperately to put the money into the convention center.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>MGM Resorts International<\/strong> CEO <strong>Jim Murren<\/strong> on proposals to divert $780 million in public monies to build a 65,000-seat stadium behind the Strip.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI\u2019m supportive of both those ventures, but I\u2019m absolutely opposed [to] \u2026 any attempt to rob the Las Vegas Convention Center of its desperately needed cash to build anything \u2014 whether it\u2019s a stadium, or a launching pad to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-719\/\">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":[75,11,31,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17821"}],"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=17821"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22884,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17821\/revisions\/22884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}