{"id":3935,"date":"2010-07-01T09:33:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T17:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3935"},"modified":"2010-07-01T09:33:46","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T17:33:46","slug":"quote-of-the-day-198","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-198\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3936\" title=\"macao-from-st-pauls\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/macao-from-st-pauls-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/macao-from-st-pauls-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/macao-from-st-pauls-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/macao-from-st-pauls.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;Let&#8217;s face it &#8230; <strong>Macau<\/strong> is a small city and its government is  more like  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe town council of any moderately large town in other  parts of the world, so  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tit is time to strip out all the hype and overblown  stories of Macau being a  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tworld-class city, as a hub for MICE, or as a truly  significant player as a  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tportal between East and West; that is simply noise. Setting aside the casinos and resorts, much of Macau  is a grimy, polluted,  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthird-rate, poky, over-populated backwater, and a sense  of realism must pervade  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthe chief executive&#8217;s pronouncements and actions to  improve Macau.&#8221; &#8212; <em>Prof. <strong>Keith Morrison<\/strong> of the <strong>Macau University of Science and  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tTechnology<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s face it &#8230; Macau is a small city and its government is more like the town council of any moderately large town in other parts of the world, so it is time to strip out all the hype and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-198\/\">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":[28,26,22,62],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935"}],"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=3935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3938,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3935\/revisions\/3938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}