{"id":24759,"date":"2019-11-13T06:39:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=24759"},"modified":"2019-11-13T06:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T14:39:45","slug":"quote-of-the-day-1142","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1142\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-20868\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New_Mexico.svg_-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New_Mexico.svg_-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New_Mexico.svg_-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New_Mexico.svg_-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/New_Mexico.svg_.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;There\u2019s also an argument to be made that in a state with such high poverty rates\u2014almost half the state\u2019s residents are on Medicaid and one in four is on food stamps\u2014it\u2019s unconscionable to offer folks yet another avenue to lose the rent. Ditto for adding still another group of people who haven\u2019t put in the sweat and tears of training to those who can make a buck on the backs of unpaid college athletes.&#8221;\u2014<em>editorial in the<\/em> Albuquerque Journal, <em>inveighing against <strong>Isleta Resort &amp; Casino<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/1356766\/lawmakers-colleges-need-to-show-their-hands-on-sports-bets.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">inception of sports betting<\/a> on college games<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There\u2019s also an argument to be made that in a state with such high poverty rates\u2014almost half the state\u2019s residents are on Medicaid and one in four is on food stamps\u2014it\u2019s unconscionable to offer folks yet another avenue to lose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-1142\/\">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":[253,90,243,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24759"}],"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=24759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24760,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24759\/revisions\/24760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}