{"id":18371,"date":"2016-06-14T09:15:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T17:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=18371"},"modified":"2016-06-14T09:15:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T17:15:50","slug":"riviera-goes-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/riviera-goes-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Riviera goes down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uuizw9kc-kQ\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of all the implosions I&#8217;ve watched in <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> since 1999, I can&#8217;t remember one being prefaced with three minutes of fireworks. Here&#8217;s the whole shebang of the demolition of the <strong>Riviera<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Monaco Tower<\/strong>, marred only by an unfortunate change of camera angle, just as the building&#8217;s collapse gains momentum. Due to asbestos issues, I wonder if the <strong>Las Vegas Convention &amp; Visitors Authority<\/strong> will make such a big production of the implosion of the <strong>Monte Carlo<\/strong> tower, expected to happen in August. Anyway, since implosions are the guilty pleasure of casino lovers, <!--more-->here&#8217;s more footage for you &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aBTLNGwyp1k\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Riviera film festival, by golly!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B399EMcsDdg\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The implosion was more than one guy&#8217;s car alarm could handle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of all the implosions I&#8217;ve watched in Las Vegas since 1999, I can&#8217;t remember one being prefaced with three minutes of fireworks. Here&#8217;s the whole shebang of the demolition of the Riviera&#8216;s Monaco Tower, marred only by an unfortunate change &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/riviera-goes-down\/\">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":[28,140,75,55,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371"}],"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=18371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18372,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18371\/revisions\/18372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}