{"id":20726,"date":"2017-12-06T10:07:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T18:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=20726"},"modified":"2017-12-06T10:07:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T18:07:28","slug":"quote-of-the-day-879","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-879\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2964\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Pinnacle+051709-300x184.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Pinnacle+051709-300x184.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Pinnacle+051709-150x92.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Pinnacle+051709.JPG 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think a merger of Penn and Pinnacle will change the general trends taking place in gaming today. Gaming resorts are getting bigger and flashier as more states open up gambling to generate revenue. And as new casinos open in or closer to major urban areas, many relatively remote areas of the Midwest and South, where a lot of the gambling consolidation has taken place in recent years, could see competition put pressure on traffic.&#8221; &#8212; The Motley Fool<em>&#8216;s <strong>Travis Hoium<\/strong> on the momentum toward a <strong>Penn National Gaming<\/strong> buyout of <strong>Pinnacle Entertainment<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think a merger of Penn and Pinnacle will change the general trends taking place in gaming today. Gaming resorts are getting bigger and flashier as more states open up gambling to generate revenue. And as new casinos open &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-879\/\">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":[14,69,30,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726"}],"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=20726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20727,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20726\/revisions\/20727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}