{"id":23856,"date":"2019-04-08T07:34:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=23856"},"modified":"2019-04-08T07:34:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T15:34:47","slug":"quote-of-the-day-1041","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1041\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I believe that many of the people who are now the lobbyists, public relations spokespersons, experts, and other proponents of gambling really haven\u2019t spent night after night, year after year, dealing cards in a very close proximity to gamblers at three and four and five in the morning \u2013 to be up-close and personal to people who are often times absolutely miserable in the act of playing games for money. I also don\u2019t believe that a lot of casino regulators have done this, nor legislators, nor even treatment professionals and researchers &#8230;\u00a0I would argue that staring into the eyes of it every night, year after year after year, would change the perception for many people of just how damaging that &#8230;\u00a0can be.&#8221; &#8212; <em>casino consultant <strong>Richard Schuetz<\/strong>, challenging the industry <a href=\"https:\/\/ggbnews.com\/article\/raining-on-the-parade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">to do a better job<\/a> of understanding problem gambling<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I believe that many of the people who are now the lobbyists, public relations spokespersons, experts, and other proponents of gambling really haven\u2019t spent night after night, year after year, dealing cards in a very close proximity to gamblers at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1041\/\">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":[90,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856"}],"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=23856"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23857,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23856\/revisions\/23857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}