{"id":20014,"date":"2017-08-02T07:28:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=20014"},"modified":"2017-08-02T07:28:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T15:28:45","slug":"20014-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/20014-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The suburban casino smells like vanilla.\u00a0Trust us, it does. And not some <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MGM-National-Harbor-300x137.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MGM-National-Harbor-300x137.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MGM-National-Harbor-150x68.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MGM-National-Harbor.jpg 606w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>lowbrow, bodega-incense vanilla, either. It smells like a <strong>Diptyque<\/strong> candle or fancy shampoo. Like <i>vanille,<\/i> sourced from some formerly colonized nation. Like rich people.\u00a0If you do not come from wealth, it\u2019s intoxicating, this scent that permeates the <strong>MGM National Harbor<\/strong>. It sticks to your hair and your clothes, quietly bathing you in status.&#8221; &#8212; <em>from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/the-sweet-scent-of-the-suburban-american-casino\/2017\/07\/31\/540d1f10-7250-11e7-8839-ec48ec4cae25_story.html?utm_term=.d2926438e828&amp;wpisrc=nl_sb_smartbrief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">a satire of MGM&#8217;s new casino<\/a>, penned by the<\/em> Washington Post&#8217;s\u00a0<em><strong>Lavanya Ramanathan<\/strong>, whose taxi driver asks her afterward,\u00a0\u201cMay I ask, what perfume are you wearing?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The suburban casino smells like vanilla.\u00a0Trust us, it does. And not some lowbrow, bodega-incense vanilla, either. It smells like a Diptyque candle or fancy shampoo. Like vanille, sourced from some formerly colonized nation. Like rich people.\u00a0If you do not come &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/20014-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[65,4,72,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014"}],"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=20014"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20016,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20014\/revisions\/20016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}