{"id":18169,"date":"2016-04-26T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T20:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=18169"},"modified":"2018-03-20T09:09:12","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T17:09:12","slug":"quote-of-the-day-730","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-730\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I learned many years ago about the importance of not punching down in weight class. You don\u2019t hit &#8216;little people&#8217; in this craft, you defend them. In <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong>, a quintessential company town, it\u2019s the blowhard billionaires and their political toadies who are worth punching. And if you don\u2019t have the freedom to call the community\u2019s heavyweights to account, then that &#8216;commentary&#8217; tag isn\u2019t worth the paper on which it\u2019s printed.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>John L. Smith<\/strong>, in a letter announcing his resignation from <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>&#8216;s<\/em> Las Vegas Review-Journal<em>, after the paper&#8217;s leadership barred him from writing about Adelson and <strong>Steve Wynn<\/strong>, both of whom had sued Smith in the past<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I learned many years ago about the importance of not punching down in weight class. You don\u2019t hit &#8216;little people&#8217; in this craft, you defend them. In Las Vegas, a quintessential company town, it\u2019s the blowhard billionaires and their political &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-730\/\">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":[12,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169"}],"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=18169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21380,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18169\/revisions\/21380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}