{"id":4933,"date":"2010-10-22T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-22T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=4933"},"modified":"2010-10-22T09:13:29","modified_gmt":"2010-10-22T17:13:29","slug":"quote-of-the-day-239","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-239\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4934\" title=\"flag_canadian_maple_leaf\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/flag_canadian_maple_leaf-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/flag_canadian_maple_leaf-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/flag_canadian_maple_leaf-150x111.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/flag_canadian_maple_leaf.jpg 370w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>&#8220;Far from being a threat, <strong>Canada<\/strong> is a major contributor to economic  prosperity in your state. More than 1.3 million visitors from Canada  visited <strong>Nevada<\/strong> in 2009, creating tens of thousands of jobs, and  Canada-Nevada trade totalled [<em>sic<\/em>] more than $1.3 billion. In fact, the <strong>Las  Vegas Tourism and Convention Bureau Association<\/strong> has recently opened  three sales offices in Canada and most major Canadian cities have direct  flights to <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong>.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Gary Doer<\/strong>, Canadian ambassador to the U.S., <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2010\/10\/canadian-ambassador-corrects-angle\/64821\/\" target=\"_blank\">in an open letter<\/a> to <strong>Sharron Angle<\/strong>, who&#8217;s been railing recently against the menace to Nevadans from the &#8220;porous&#8221; Great White North<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Far from being a threat, Canada is a major contributor to economic prosperity in your state. More than 1.3 million visitors from Canada visited Nevada in 2009, creating tens of thousands of jobs, and Canada-Nevada trade totalled [sic] more than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-239\/\">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":[14,26,22,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933"}],"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=4933"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4937,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4933\/revisions\/4937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}