{"id":3961,"date":"2010-07-06T13:03:22","date_gmt":"2010-07-06T21:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=3961"},"modified":"2010-07-06T13:08:03","modified_gmt":"2010-07-06T21:08:03","slug":"quote-of-the-day-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2105\" title=\"fontainebleau-las-vegas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fontainebleau-las-vegas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fontainebleau-las-vegas.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fontainebleau-las-vegas-150x135.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/fontainebleau-las-vegas-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>&#8220;Clearly, there will be overbuilding and other costly mistakes if the boosterish mania for growth and promotion are not balanced by careful planning in the 1990s.&#8221; &#8212; <em>historian <strong>Eugene Moehring<\/strong>, in his 1989 history of Las Vegas<\/em>, Resort City in the Sunbelt.<em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Resort-Sunbelt-Vegas-1930-2000-Second\/dp\/0874173566\/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1278450124&amp;sr=1-3\" target=\"_blank\">A newer edition<\/a> carries the narrative forward to the turn of the century.) In its epilogue, Moehring recites a sobering litany of infrastructural improvements that were planned<\/em> circa <em>1988 but almost none of which came into being, save for the bankrupt, fragmentary <strong>Las Vegas Monorail<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Clearly, there will be overbuilding and other costly mistakes if the boosterish mania for growth and promotion are not balanced by careful planning in the 1990s.&#8221; &#8212; historian Eugene Moehring, in his 1989 history of Las Vegas, Resort City in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-15\/\">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":[51,14,140,9,100],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961"}],"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=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3963,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3961\/revisions\/3963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}