{"id":21993,"date":"2018-07-04T08:15:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T16:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=21993"},"modified":"2018-07-04T08:15:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T16:15:46","slug":"happy-fourth-of-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/happy-fourth-of-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Fourth of July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re still a free country so celebrate it while you can. The depression following <strong>Spike<\/strong>&#8216;s death affected my ability to compose <strong>S&amp;G<\/strong> unduly and was compounded by a trip to <strong>Philadelphia<\/strong> to help edit a book (plus do odd jobs for <em>Casino Life<\/em> and &#8220;Question of the Day&#8221;). I have not been able to convince family members to visit any of the four &#8212; soon to be five &#8212; Philadelphia casinos with me and <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong> appears totally out of the question, although I&#8217;m told there&#8217;s a cheap train to the city by the sea. If luck permits, I&#8217;ll file in-person reports on <strong>Hard Rock Atlantic City<\/strong> and <strong>Ocean Resort<\/strong> but I can make no promises.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re still a free country so celebrate it while you can. The depression following Spike&#8216;s death affected my ability to compose S&amp;G unduly and was compounded by a trip to Philadelphia to help edit a book (plus do odd jobs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/happy-fourth-of-july\/\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993"}],"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=21993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21994,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21993\/revisions\/21994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}