{"id":271,"date":"2009-10-23T20:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T00:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/10\/23\/Quote-of-the-Day"},"modified":"2020-10-16T07:02:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T15:02:21","slug":"quote-of-the-day-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<span><strong>Steve Wynn<\/strong> was the worst offender on that score. Last year, he used his aircraft for a $1 million of personal travel, which <strong>Wynn<\/strong> [<strong>Resorts<\/strong>] shareholders paid for. To do $1 million worth of travel, I worked it out that you\u2019d have to fly to <strong>Hawaii<\/strong> and back every week for a year to rack that kind of a cost up.&#8221; &#8212; <em>investor activist <strong>Eric Jackson<\/strong>, founder of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironfirecapital.com\" class=\"broken_link\"><strong>Ironfire Capital<\/strong><\/a>, on the subject excessive perks in the casino industry<\/em>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Steve Wynn was the worst offender on that score. Last year, he used his aircraft for a $1 million of personal travel, which Wynn [Resorts] shareholders paid for. To do $1 million worth of travel, I worked it out that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-18\/\">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":[28,14,32,100,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271"}],"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=271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28250,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271\/revisions\/28250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}