{"id":20512,"date":"2017-11-06T08:16:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-06T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=20512"},"modified":"2017-11-06T08:16:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T16:16:14","slug":"thought-for-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/thought-for-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thought for the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why does <strong>Steve Wynn<\/strong> want to decorate the lagoon of <strong>Wynn Paradise Park<\/strong> with floats of giant arachnids? I mean, nothing <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/MGM-R_jpg_445x1000_upscale_q85-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/MGM-R_jpg_445x1000_upscale_q85-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/MGM-R_jpg_445x1000_upscale_q85-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/MGM-R_jpg_445x1000_upscale_q85.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>says &#8220;fun&#8221; like a bunch of spiders, right? I think my archachna-phobic wife has come up with the explanation: Spiders have eight legs and &#8216;8&#8217; is considered propitious in crucial Oriental cultures. Why not go whole hog and have guests enter Paradise Park through the legs of a gargantuan spider? That couldn&#8217;t be as inauspicious as the infamous <strong>MGM Grand<\/strong> lion&#8217;s mouth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why does Steve Wynn want to decorate the lagoon of Wynn Paradise Park with floats of giant arachnids? I mean, nothing says &#8220;fun&#8221; like a bunch of spiders, right? I think my archachna-phobic wife has come up with the explanation: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/thought-for-the-day-2\/\">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":[65,11,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512"}],"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=20512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20513,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20512\/revisions\/20513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}