{"id":4598,"date":"2010-09-15T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4598"},"modified":"2010-09-15T09:27:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T17:27:08","slug":"running-silent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/running-silent\/","title":{"rendered":"Running silent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"272\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SZICgPuttKI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"272\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/SZICgPuttKI?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nAt the moment, I&#8217;m following up on some leads that might (I stress &#8220;<em>might<\/em>&#8220;) coalesce into a bigger story. I&#8217;ve also been trying to clear my desk of a flurry of <em>Questions of the Day<\/em> and sundry other essays. Topics include: Sen. <strong>William Andrews Clark<\/strong> (from whom <strong>Clark County<\/strong> took its name), <strong>Teller<\/strong>, the future &#8212; if any &#8212; of the <strong>Liberace Museum<\/strong>, the &#8220;<strong>Snooki<\/strong>-fication of Las Vegas,&#8221; <strong>Moe Dalitz<\/strong>, the <strong>Meridian<\/strong> condo project and possible expansion of the <strong>Las Vegas Premium Outlets<\/strong> mall in Downtown. By the way, if you&#8217;re tempted to buy an &#8220;expos\u00e9&#8221; of Mob-run Vegas called <em>War of the Godfathers<\/em> by <strong>William F. Roemer<\/strong> &#8230; <em>don&#8217;t<\/em>! It contains some of the most outrageous urban mythology I&#8217;ve ever run across. Other books actually cite it as a reliable source, a scary real-life instance of legend trumping history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the moment, I&#8217;m following up on some leads that might (I stress &#8220;might&#8220;) coalesce into a bigger story. I&#8217;ve also been trying to clear my desk of a flurry of Questions of the Day and sundry other essays. Topics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/running-silent\/\">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":[51,4,140,87,9,19,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598"}],"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=4598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4599,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4598\/revisions\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}