{"id":179,"date":"2009-08-22T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T01:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/8\/22\/Frank-Fertitta-Jr-19382009"},"modified":"2009-08-22T21:25:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T01:25:00","slug":"frank-fertitta-jr-1938-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/frank-fertitta-jr-1938-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Fertitta Jr., 1938-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There's a nice R-J<\/em> obituary<\/a> for the Station Casinos<\/strong> patriarch, although you won't find it in Saturday's online edition, inexplicably. You have to go back and root around in the "Breaking News" box from Friday. (By the time the R-J<\/em> gets "this Internet thing" figured out, it'll have gone out of business.)<\/p>\n

Over at the Sun<\/em>, investigative reporter Jeff German<\/strong> has penned an even more thorough retrospective, with particular emphasis on the late Frank Fertitta Jr<\/strong>.'s philanthropic activities<\/a>. Considering how many nastygrams have been appended to the R-J<\/em> valedictory, one is thankful that the Sun<\/em> elected to disable "Comments" for its obit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There's a nice R-J obituary for the Station Casinos patriarch, although you won't find it in Saturday's online edition, inexplicably. You have to go back and root around in the "Breaking News" box from Friday. (By the time the R-J … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,28,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179"}],"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=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}