{"id":18692,"date":"2016-08-12T10:21:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T18:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=18692"},"modified":"2016-08-12T10:21:06","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T18:21:06","slug":"quote-of-the-day-760","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-760\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile I cannot say what a [<strong>Donald<\/strong>] <strong>Trump<\/strong> presidency would mean for poker, there is some smoke. And, as they say, where there is smoke, there could be a fire.\u00a0The story with <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Trump-in-LV-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Trump in LV\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Trump-in-LV-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Trump-in-LV-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Trump-in-LV.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Trump\u2019s running mate, though, is perfectly clear. While there is smoke with Trump, [<strong>Mike<\/strong>] <strong>Pence<\/strong>\u2019s desire to usurp the states with a federal online poker prohibition is a raging inferno.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>Poker Players Alliance<\/strong> Executive Director <strong>John Pappas<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.igamingplayer.com\/issue\/vol-3-no-8-august-2016\/article\/gop-drops-online-gambling-opposition-from-platform1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">the disappearance of an anti-Internet-gambling plank<\/a> from the GOP platform. Five years ago, Trump said,\u00a0\u201cOnline gambling has to happen because many other countries are doing it and like usual the U.S. is just missing out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhile I cannot say what a [Donald] Trump presidency would mean for poker, there is some smoke. And, as they say, where there is smoke, there could be a fire.\u00a0The story with Trump\u2019s running mate, though, is perfectly clear. While &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-760\/\">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":[42,26,37],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692"}],"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=18692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18697,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18692\/revisions\/18697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}