{"id":2491,"date":"2010-03-09T13:41:17","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T21:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2491"},"modified":"2010-03-09T13:41:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T21:41:17","slug":"quote-of-the-day-138","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-138\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2055\" title=\"Icahn 2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Icahn-2.jpg\" alt=\"Icahn 2\" width=\"307\" height=\"450\" \/>&#8220;There will undoubtedly be tough sledding ahead for <strong>Atlantic City<\/strong>,  especially in light of the increasing competition from neighboring  states. However, I believe that Atlantic City, with its  beautiful beaches, can again become a premier destination resort.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Carl Icahn<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cincinnati.com\/article\/20100308\/BIZ\/3090333\/1076\/BIZ\/Tropicana+sale+expected+to+close+today\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">upon taking control of <\/a>the <strong>Tropicana Atlantic City<\/strong>. Thus ends a three-year ordeal for the property, one year under the mismanagement of <strong>Columbia Sussex<\/strong> and two being shopped around as a ward of the <strong>New Jersey Casino Control Commission<\/strong><\/em>. S&amp;G <em>wishes Icahn and his new employees the best of luck<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There will undoubtedly be tough sledding ahead for Atlantic City, especially in light of the increasing competition from neighboring states. However, I believe that Atlantic City, with its beautiful beaches, can again become a premier destination resort.&#8221; &#8212; Carl Icahn, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-138\/\">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":[23,82,15,28,14,25,21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491"}],"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=2491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2491\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}