{"id":3688,"date":"2010-06-03T14:39:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T22:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3688"},"modified":"2010-06-03T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-03T22:39:54","slug":"from-the-mailbag-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/from-the-mailbag-6\/","title":{"rendered":"From the mailbag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3689\" title=\"JN Nugget\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/JN-Nugget.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/JN-Nugget.jpg 359w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/JN-Nugget-150x117.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/JN-Nugget-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/>One <em>S&amp;G<\/em> reader has &#8212; unlike me &#8212; been to <strong>John Ascuaga&#8217;s Nugget<\/strong> and deeply regrets having done so:<\/p>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-family: Book Antiqua; font-size: x-small;\">John   Ascuaga&#8217;s Nugget might be the most soul-crushing casino I&#8217;ve ever been  to, and I  know from soul-crushing casinos.\u00a0 It&#8217;s 1985-modern, and doesn&#8217;t seem to  have been touched since. It&#8217;s hard to put into words what it is that&#8217;s  so  disconcerting about the place and gives it the odd vibe. Perhaps it&#8217;s  that  they seem to have too high an opinion of themselves. Maybe it&#8217;s like a  middle-aged woman who thinks she&#8217;s still beautiful but in fact isn&#8217;t and  never  even was? <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Book Antiqua; font-size: x-small;\">You&#8217;re not missing much. It&#8217;s a casino I  never want to set foot in again.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One S&amp;G reader has &#8212; unlike me &#8212; been to John Ascuaga&#8217;s Nugget and deeply regrets having done so: John Ascuaga&#8217;s Nugget might be the most soul-crushing casino I&#8217;ve ever been to, and I know from soul-crushing casinos.\u00a0 It&#8217;s 1985-modern, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/from-the-mailbag-6\/\">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":[79],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688"}],"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=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3691,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions\/3691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}