{"id":2619,"date":"2010-03-18T13:47:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T21:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2619"},"modified":"2010-03-18T13:48:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T21:48:44","slug":"quote-of-the-day-144","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-144\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2621\" title=\"macau_gran_lisboa\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/macau_gran_lisboa.jpg\" alt=\"macau_gran_lisboa\" width=\"281\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/macau_gran_lisboa.jpg 281w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/macau_gran_lisboa-84x150.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/macau_gran_lisboa-168x300.jpg 168w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 281px) 100vw, 281px\" \/>&#8220;These tall edifices produced a disturbing impression, for they were held to invade the realms and to jeopardise the composure of the <em>feng-shui<\/em>. These were the spirits of wind and water &#8230; all that needs to be said about them is that they were extremely temperamental and easily took umbrage if the delicate balance of their interests was upset.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Peter Fleming<\/strong>, writing about a very different China,<\/em> circa <em>1860-1900, in <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Siege-Peking-Oxford-Paperbacks\/dp\/0195837355\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1268948776&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\">The Siege at Peking<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(<em>Above, <strong>Stanley Ho<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Grand Lisboa<\/strong> hotel-casino, prior to its completion<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;These tall edifices produced a disturbing impression, for they were held to invade the realms and to jeopardise the composure of the feng-shui. These were the spirits of wind and water &#8230; all that needs to be said about them &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-144\/\">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":[65,22,62,61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619"}],"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=2619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2623,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2619\/revisions\/2623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}