{"id":3760,"date":"2010-06-08T13:51:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T21:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2010-06-08T13:56:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T21:56:01","slug":"the-heat-is-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/the-heat-is-on\/","title":{"rendered":"The heat is on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures in <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> yesterday peaked at 110 degrees &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2010\/jun\/06\/110-degrees-summer-sizzles-record-heat-las-vegas\/\" target=\"_blank\">the earliest date on record<\/a> for hitting that mark. Today it&#8217;ll &#8220;merely&#8221; be 102 &#8230; and don&#8217;t tell me it&#8217;s &#8220;a dry heat&#8221; because I just got back from doing an interview at the <strong>Hard Rock Hotel<\/strong> and was sweating like a pig. This weekend brings a veritable cold snap: Saturday&#8217;s high is projected to be a frigid 85, so this may be your last shot at even relatively mild conditions until October.<\/p>\n<p>Which inspires the following selection:<br \/>\n<object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6l7jrprj3lA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6l7jrprj3lA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nI&#8217;ve always wanted to insinuate that tune into <em>S&amp;G<\/em> because of its <strong>Mandalay<\/strong> reference and &#8212; with summer hammering down upon us in earnest &#8212; what better time than now? (Not that there is ever a <em>bad<\/em> time to watch <strong>Agnetha Faltskog<\/strong>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Temperatures in Las Vegas yesterday peaked at 110 degrees &#8212; the earliest date on record for hitting that mark. Today it&#8217;ll &#8220;merely&#8221; be 102 &#8230; and don&#8217;t tell me it&#8217;s &#8220;a dry heat&#8221; because I just got back from doing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/the-heat-is-on\/\">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":[5,28,102,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760"}],"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=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3763,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions\/3763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}