{"id":5175,"date":"2010-11-20T14:38:28","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T22:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5175"},"modified":"2010-11-21T14:52:47","modified_gmt":"2010-11-21T22:52:47","slug":"g2e-1-sg-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/g2e-1-sg-0\/","title":{"rendered":"G2E 1, S&#038;G 0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite less glad-handing and more hand-washing than any previous <strong>Global Gaming Expo<\/strong>, Yr. Humble Blogger is down for the count until further notice, victim of &#8220;flu-like&#8221; symptoms that surfaced at the end of the show. I&#8217;ll be &#8220;offline&#8221; another day or two, most likely. In the meantime, who&#8217;s the idiot at the <strong>Nevada Development Authority<\/strong> who brought in a guest speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2010\/nov\/19\/fox-news-contributor-tells-local-business-crowd-ob\/\" target=\"_blank\">to champion a &#8220;consumption tax&#8221;<\/a>? It&#8217;s hard to think of any form of taxation (other than a federal gaming levy or sales tax) that could hurt Nevada&#8217;s leisure-based economy so badly as that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite less glad-handing and more hand-washing than any previous Global Gaming Expo, Yr. Humble Blogger is down for the count until further notice, victim of &#8220;flu-like&#8221; symptoms that surfaced at the end of the show. I&#8217;ll be &#8220;offline&#8221; another day &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/g2e-1-sg-0\/\">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":[28,14,104,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175"}],"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=5175"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5183,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5175\/revisions\/5183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}