{"id":372,"date":"2009-06-18T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/6\/18\/Case-Bets-Our-LVA-mascot-Menopause-Mob-museum"},"modified":"2009-06-18T14:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T22:19:00","slug":"case-bets-our-lva-mascot-menopause-mob-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-our-lva-mascot-menopause-mob-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Bets: Our LVA mascot; Menopause; Mob museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" height=\"600\" width=\"450\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/DSCN0163(1).JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Woe betide anyone who dares to plunder <em>LVA<\/em> HQ, for we are under the protection of a fierce &#8212; but beautiful &#8212; watch iguana. <strong>Mojo<\/strong>, as she is named, is at this moment sunning herself on the balcony of my office. The photo above shows Mojo in her customary habitat: a massive iguana &quot;condo&quot; that takes up nearly half of one of the downstairs offices.<\/p>\n<p>As cushy as her lifestyle may be, Mojo occasionally gets cabin fever and either rampages around the research department or attacks her &quot;evil twin&quot; in the mirror. Watch your head if you&apos;re coming in the front door; Mojo recently leapt off the second-floor balcony in pursuit of (we presume) some fat, juicy pigeons and suffered no injury whatsoever. She&apos;s one tough little hombre.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Menopause The Musical<\/strong><\/em>: I don&apos;t mean it pejoratively when I say that if you like this sort of thing, then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegascitylife.com\/articles\/2009\/06\/18\/ae\/stage\/iq_29355720.txt\">this is the sort of thing you&apos;ll like<\/a>. Either you get the joke(s) or you don&apos;t. It&apos;s that simple.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Oscar Goodman<\/strong>&apos;s pet project, the so-called &quot;Mob museum&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/news\/48421927.html\">just got whacked<\/a>, albeit not fatally &#8230; we think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woe betide anyone who dares to plunder LVA HQ, for we are under the protection of a fierce &#8212; but beautiful &#8212; watch iguana. Mojo, as she is named, is at this moment sunning herself on the balcony of my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/case-bets-our-lva-mascot-menopause-mob-museum\/\">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":[98,51,4,11,50,99,87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372"}],"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=372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}