{"id":451,"date":"2008-01-28T13:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-28T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/1\/28\/Thats-the-spirit"},"modified":"2020-03-04T07:21:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T15:21:56","slug":"thats-the-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/thats-the-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s the spirit!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s hand out <strong>a few kudos<\/strong> to people who are doing what one ex-felon would call A Good Thing:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Would you believe <strong>Binion&#8217;s Gambling Hall<\/strong> still hasn&#8217;t finished going coinless? That&#8217;s one of the things that&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/ap\/080125\/nv_binion_s_mtr_gaming.html?.v=1\">predicted to change<\/a> now that <strong>Four Queens<\/strong> owner <strong>T<\/strong><strong>erry Caudill<\/strong> is taking the reins. Given the turnaround he&#8217;s achieved at the Four Queens, if anybody can rescue the legendary Binion&#8217;s from its doldrums, it&#8217;s Caudill.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 It&#8217;s nice to see some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2008\/jan\/28\/subprimecrisis.useconomy\">CEO contrition<\/a> in the wake of the <strong>Countrywide debacle<\/strong>. Let&#8217;s hope the spirit moves others to do likewise. (True, a Japanese CEO in the same situation would leap to his death from the top of company HQ, but that&#8217;s taking remorse just a tad far.) \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/blogs\/news\/2008\/jan\/28\/countrywide-ceo-dont-cry-me-nevada\">Some will doubt<\/a> the substance and sincerity of the gesture, but $37.5 million (plus assorted perks) ain&#8217;t chump change, at least to regular folks.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 They&#8217;re not &#8220;fake,&#8221; they&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2008\/jan\/27\/dont-call-them-fake-theyre-real-most-las-vegas\">artificial<\/a>. (And, no, we&#8217;re not talking about breasts.) Since the real palm trees at my apartment complex brought with them a veritable plague of <strong>scorpions<\/strong>, I applaud this water-saving trend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s hand out a few kudos to people who are doing what one ex-felon would call A Good Thing: \u2022 Would you believe Binion&#8217;s Gambling Hall still hasn&#8217;t finished going coinless? That&#8217;s one of the things that&#8217;s predicted to change &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/thats-the-spirit\/\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451"}],"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=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26276,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/26276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}