{"id":2725,"date":"2010-03-26T14:50:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-26T22:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2010-03-26T14:50:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T22:50:37","slug":"quote-of-the-day-149","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-149\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ever since banks lent all that money to <strong>Columbia Sussex<\/strong> to buy my hotel,  my paycheck is smaller, I don\u2019t qualify for health insurance anymore,  and my co-workers are laid off.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Baltimore Sheraton<\/strong> laundress <strong>Mary Lee Hinant<\/strong>. Her hotel is one of eight which are the subject of a <strong>Unite-Here<\/strong> and <strong>AFL-CIO<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/press-releases\/b191815\/8-columbia-sussex-hotels-boycotted-by-hotel-workers-union-unite-here\" target=\"_blank\">boycott<\/a>. Five of the eight boycotted hotels were part of a $1.1 billion acquisition which shortly preceded Columbia Sussex&#8217;s doomed purchase of <strong>Aztar Corp<\/strong>., parent of the <strong>Tropicana Las Vegas<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Ever since banks lent all that money to Columbia Sussex to buy my hotel, my paycheck is smaller, I don\u2019t qualify for health insurance anymore, and my co-workers are laid off.&#8221; &#8212; Baltimore Sheraton laundress Mary Lee Hinant. Her hotel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-149\/\">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":[15,28,16,72,21,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725"}],"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=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}