{"id":2475,"date":"2010-03-06T14:04:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T22:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2010-03-06T14:05:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T22:05:43","slug":"quote-of-the-day-136","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-136\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Having now been hit by the worst recession in American history and the  worst downturn in gaming revenues in Nevada history, we can simply no  longer afford to bear the overwhelming share of the burden for running  the state.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>MGM Mirage<\/strong> spokesman <strong>Alan Feldman<\/strong><\/em>. S&amp;G <em>agrees in general principle, if not in <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703862704575099741257705962.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read#video%3D3850ED0A-1649-4F66-8C5B-17B6400E5866%26articleTabs%3Dvideo\" target=\"_blank\">the specific instance<\/a> (another $32 million for the <strong>Nevada Gaming Control Board<\/strong> or 0.3% of the industry&#8217;s 2009 Nevada gross) in question<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Having now been hit by the worst recession in American history and the worst downturn in gaming revenues in Nevada history, we can simply no longer afford to bear the overwhelming share of the burden for running the state.&#8221; &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-136\/\">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":[14,11,25,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475"}],"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=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}