{"id":23764,"date":"2019-03-25T04:38:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-25T12:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=23764"},"modified":"2019-03-25T04:38:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-25T12:38:31","slug":"quote-of-the-day-1035","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1035\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re not looking to be the fun police. That\u2019s not our objective.\u00a0Clearly, people enjoy betting on the bracket and doing office pools. I <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sara-Slane-Headshot-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sara-Slane-Headshot-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sara-Slane-Headshot-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sara-Slane-Headshot-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Sara-Slane-Headshot-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>think the larger point just goes to the fact that a couple of things: No. 1, this is such a massive part of our culture.\u00a0People enjoy betting on sports and I think that&#8217;s why you&#8217;ve seen such a wide range of acceptance throughout the <strong>United States<\/strong> to see legalized sports betting. \u00a0And then secondarily, it highlights the fact that, yes, while it may be illegal, there is the opportunity now to make it legal and to regulate it and to recapture that revenue.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>American Gaming Association<\/strong> Vice President for Public Affairs <strong>Sara Slane<\/strong> on the AGA&#8217;s shining of a spotlight on illegal sports betting. Incidentally, <strong>Utah<\/strong> has highest percentage of sports bettors &#8212; 26%<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re not looking to be the fun police. That\u2019s not our objective.\u00a0Clearly, people enjoy betting on the bracket and doing office pools. I think the larger point just goes to the fact that a couple of things: No. 1, this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1035\/\">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":[249,243],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23764"}],"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=23764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23765,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23764\/revisions\/23765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}