{"id":18787,"date":"2016-08-29T12:10:25","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T20:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=18787"},"modified":"2016-08-29T12:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T20:10:25","slug":"quote-of-the-day-765","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-765\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEverything I built \u2014 the <strong>Golden Nugget<\/strong>, <strong>Mirage<\/strong>, <strong>Treasure Island<\/strong>, <strong>Wynn-Encore<\/strong>, were because of him.\u00a0You name the buildings, including <strong>UNLV<\/strong>, and <strong>Parry Thomas<\/strong>\u2019 fingerprints are everywhere in this valley.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>Steve Wynn<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/news\/las-vegas\/quiet-kingmaker-and-las-vegas-banker-e-parry-thomas-dies-95\" target=\"_blank\">eulogizing\u00a0banker and power-broker Thomas<\/a>, who revolutionized the <strong>Nevada<\/strong> casino industry several times over, most importantly by persuading the state to permit publicly held corporations to own casinos. Thomas, who persuaded Wynn to buy the Golden Nugget, died Friday at age 95<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEverything I built \u2014 the Golden Nugget, Mirage, Treasure Island, Wynn-Encore, were because of him.\u00a0You name the buildings, including UNLV, and Parry Thomas\u2019 fingerprints are everywhere in this valley.\u201d &#8212; Steve Wynn, eulogizing\u00a0banker and power-broker Thomas, who revolutionized the Nevada &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-765\/\">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":[51,140,11,32,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18787"}],"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=18787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18788,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18787\/revisions\/18788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}