{"id":5297,"date":"2010-12-09T08:54:38","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T16:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5297"},"modified":"2020-08-15T15:36:11","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T23:36:11","slug":"quote-of-the-day-259","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-259\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The pie is finite. Gaming is subject to the same laws of economics as every other industry and I think legislators have a hard time understanding that.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Bill Eadington<\/strong>, director of the Institute for the <strong>Study of Gambling &amp; Commercial Gaming<\/strong> at the <strong>University of Nevada-Reno<\/strong>, on <strong>Illinois<\/strong> solons&#8217; determination to double the size of the state&#8217;s gambling industry at a time when business has fallen to historic lows<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The pie is finite. Gaming is subject to the same laws of economics as every other industry and I think legislators have a hard time understanding that.&#8221; &#8212; Bill Eadington, director of the Institute for the Study of Gambling &amp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-259\/\">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":[28,14,58],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297"}],"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=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27763,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions\/27763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}