{"id":4185,"date":"2010-07-27T22:17:34","date_gmt":"2010-07-28T06:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2010-07-27T22:17:34","modified_gmt":"2010-07-28T06:17:34","slug":"quote-of-the-day-205","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-205\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4187\" title=\"echelon-place\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/echelon-place.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/echelon-place.jpg 415w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/echelon-place-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/echelon-place-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/>&#8220;The gaming industry in particular viewed itself as nearly invulnerable,  and <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> &#8230; viewed itself as a place that could  continually transform and develop a new destination that would be  successful. This time around, it just didn\u2019t work.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>William Eadington<\/strong>, director of the <strong>Institute for the Study of Gambling &amp; Professional Gaming<\/strong>, at UNR, on the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2010\/jul\/27\/las-vegas-versus-macau-not-really-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\">unbridled optimism<\/a>&#8221; of the casino industry in 2006-07<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The gaming industry in particular viewed itself as nearly invulnerable, and Las Vegas &#8230; viewed itself as a place that could continually transform and develop a new destination that would be successful. This time around, it just didn\u2019t work.&#8221; &#8212; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-205\/\">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":[14,140,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185"}],"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=4185"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4188,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions\/4188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}