{"id":4174,"date":"2010-07-25T12:36:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T20:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4174"},"modified":"2010-07-25T12:36:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T20:36:49","slug":"quote-of-the-day-203","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-203\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday we are in a disaster because we didn\u2019t do what <strong>Kenny Guinn<\/strong> had  spent months researching and tried to pass. I remember he\u2019d go into  meetings with his clipboard saying \u2018We\u2019re going to have huge deficits  if we don\u2019t pass this\u2019 and today we have a $2.5 billion deficit.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>Jan Jones<\/strong>, senior vice president of <strong>Harrah&#8217;s Entertainment<\/strong>, on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/22\/former-gov-kenny-guinn-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">the late Gov. Guinn<\/a> and his futile attempt to pass a gross-receipts tax. Jones ran against Guinn in the 1998 gubernatorial race. (Guinn won.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday we are in a disaster because we didn\u2019t do what Kenny Guinn had spent months researching and tried to pass. I remember he\u2019d go into meetings with his clipboard saying \u2018We\u2019re going to have huge deficits if we don\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-203\/\">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":[14,7,140,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174"}],"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=4174"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4175,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4174\/revisions\/4175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}