{"id":544,"date":"2009-06-17T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/6\/17\/Macao-rises-again"},"modified":"2009-06-17T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T23:11:00","slug":"macao-rises-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/macao-rises-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Macao&#8221; rises again?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nlm9MFQFmoE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/nlm9MFQFmoE&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Block out the shopworn, mostly useless generalities coming from <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> and groove to <strong>Macao<\/strong>&apos;s scintillating casinos, recoil from its thick blanket of smog, and take some heart from <strong>Credit Suisse<\/strong>&apos;s prediction of an upturn in VIP play in the Chinese casino protectorate.<\/p>\n<p>A contemporaneous Australian TV report &#8212; which can&apos;t be embedded, alas &#8212; was even more striking, especially in the stunning contrast between the sleek architectural beauty of <strong>Melco Crown International<\/strong>&apos;s new flagship, <strong>City of Dreams<\/strong>, and the fugliness of <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>&apos;s nearby monoliths. Cheers to <strong>Melco Crown<\/strong> for bringing a needed infusion of taste to the <strong>Cotai Strip&trade;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Block out the shopworn, mostly useless generalities coming from Las Vegas Sands and groove to Macao&apos;s scintillating casinos, recoil from its thick blanket of smog, and take some heart from Credit Suisse&apos;s prediction of an upturn in VIP play in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/macao-rises-again\/\">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":[65,14,117,96,94,62,93,12,17,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544"}],"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=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}