{"id":17959,"date":"2016-03-21T09:20:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T17:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=17959"},"modified":"2017-11-16T09:34:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:34:31","slug":"quote-of-the-day-724","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-724\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 1976, casinos were approved for <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong>. It was a monopoly that existed for many, many years; many people benefited. But conditions change, and when conditions <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/hilton-atlantic-city-casino-hotel.jpg\" alt=\"hilton-atlantic-city-casino-hotel\" width=\"264\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/hilton-atlantic-city-casino-hotel.jpg 264w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/hilton-atlantic-city-casino-hotel-150x129.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/>change and you don&#8217;t adapt, you become a dinosaur and you become extinct.&#8221;\u00a0&#8212; <em><strong>New Jersey<\/strong> Assemblyman <strong>Ralph Caputo<\/strong> (D)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look at my face. This is the face of failed promises from the state of New Jersey to fix my city. There will be devastation.&#8221;\u00a0&#8212; <em>Atlantic City Mayor <strong>Don Guardian<\/strong> (R).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Differing reactions to the New Jersey Legislature&#8217;s approval of a ballot question to break Atlantic City&#8217;s monopoly on casino gambling<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In 1976, casinos were approved for Atlantic City. It was a monopoly that existed for many, many years; many people benefited. But conditions change, and when conditions change and you don&#8217;t adapt, you become a dinosaur and you become extinct.&#8221;\u00a0&#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-724\/\">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":[23,14,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17959"}],"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=17959"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20610,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17959\/revisions\/20610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}