{"id":2121,"date":"2010-02-02T13:33:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2010-02-02T13:34:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T21:34:20","slug":"quote-of-the-day-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-117\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don\u2019t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don\u2019t blow a bunch of cash in Vegas when you\u2019re trying to save for college.&#8221; &#8212; <em>President <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong>, in <strong>New Hampshire<\/strong> today. Sounds like old-fashioned\u00a0 folk wisdom (and, except for the Vegas bit, it&#8217;s standard-issue <strong>Jim Gibbons<\/strong> rhetoric) but just wait for <strong>Nevada<\/strong> politicians to start demanding <\/em>en masse<em> that the prez retract his remarks and say that splurging in <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> should take priority over the college fund &#8212; or something comparably silly<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When times are tough, you tighten your belts. You don\u2019t go buying a boat when you can barely pay your mortgage. You don\u2019t blow a bunch of cash in Vegas when you\u2019re trying to save for college.&#8221; &#8212; President Barack &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-117\/\">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":[28,14,137,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121"}],"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=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2123,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}