{"id":20414,"date":"2017-10-24T06:53:40","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T14:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=20414"},"modified":"2022-08-11T07:34:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T15:34:01","slug":"quote-of-the-day-861","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-861\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt did rock my world. Reading in every newspaper around the world that <strong>Crown<\/strong> [<strong>Resorts<\/strong>] was a bad corporate citizen shook me to the core because I had put in so much effort over so many <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Packer-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Packer-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Packer-112x150.jpg 112w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Packer.jpg 316w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>years to ensure Crown was a good corporate citizen. And it wasn\u2019t just <strong>James Packer<\/strong> being attacked, all of a sudden Crown was being attacked and that was putting the people who were in jail at risk.&#8221; &#8212; <em>James Packer, on the arrest of the <strong>Crown 18<\/strong>. In the same interview, he reveals he ought to have sold out of <strong>Macao<\/strong> in 2014, the same year he tried and failed to buy <strong>The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas<\/strong> for $1.5 billion, He blames the collapse of <strong>Alon<\/strong> on his company&#8217;s debt burden and admits to the &#8220;ham-fisted ways we went into <strong>North America<\/strong>.&#8221; It&#8217;s unexpectedly candid coming from someone of Packer&#8217;s eminence<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt did rock my world. Reading in every newspaper around the world that Crown [Resorts] was a bad corporate citizen shook me to the core because I had put in so much effort over so many years to ensure Crown &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-861\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[103,66,219,96,62,214,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20414"}],"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=20414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31525,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20414\/revisions\/31525"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}