{"id":4265,"date":"2010-08-05T10:40:26","date_gmt":"2010-08-05T18:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4265"},"modified":"2010-08-05T10:40:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-05T18:40:26","slug":"quote-of-the-day-212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-212\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThink of the American economy as a large apartment block. A century ago \u2013 even 30 years ago \u2013 it was the  object of envy. But in the last generation its character has changed.  The penthouses at the top keep getting larger and larger. The apartments  in the middle are feeling more and more squeezed and the basement has  flooded. To round it off, the elevator is no longer working. That broken  elevator is what gets people down the most.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>Harvard University<\/strong> economics professor <strong>Larry Katz<\/strong>, on Americans&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/1a8a5cb2-9ab2-11df-87e6-00144feab49a.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">downward economic mobility<\/a> (a phenomenon that should be of considerable alarm if you own a casino).<\/em> <em>Now if only Katz could explain where the<\/em> douchebagerie <em>gets its seemingly inexplicable wealth &#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThink of the American economy as a large apartment block. A century ago \u2013 even 30 years ago \u2013 it was the object of envy. But in the last generation its character has changed. The penthouses at the top keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-212\/\">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":[28,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265"}],"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=4265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4266,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4265\/revisions\/4266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}