{"id":4384,"date":"2010-08-18T11:39:30","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T19:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4384"},"modified":"2010-08-18T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T19:39:30","slug":"quote-of-the-day-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-41\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4385\" title=\"guggenheim-las-vegas-04\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/guggenheim-las-vegas-04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/guggenheim-las-vegas-04.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/guggenheim-las-vegas-04-150x96.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/guggenheim-las-vegas-04-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>&#8220;The people who come to Vegas are not going to be the people who want to explore art galleries.  There was a brief moment where I thought Vegas would grow into that.  But I turned out to be mostly wrong about Vegas. This town dreamed big,  but Vegas is built for middle-class gamblers and not the tastes of the  casino executives.&#8221; &#8212; <em>art critic and former provocateur-at-large <strong>Dave Hickey<\/strong> on the failure of art galleries to take root on the <strong>Las Vegas Strip<\/strong>. The <strong>Cosmopolitan<\/strong>&#8216;s CEO, <strong>John Unwin<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2010\/aug\/15\/entertainment\/la-ca-vegas-20100815\" target=\"_blank\">has an interesting response<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The people who come to Vegas are not going to be the people who want to explore art galleries. There was a brief moment where I thought Vegas would grow into that. But I turned out to be mostly wrong &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-41\/\">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":[66,28,4,9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384"}],"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=4384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4386,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4384\/revisions\/4386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}