{"id":5547,"date":"2011-01-11T09:42:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T17:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5547"},"modified":"2011-01-11T12:37:04","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T20:37:04","slug":"quote-of-the-day-270","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-270\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5548\" title=\"slots\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/slots.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"370\" height=\"187\" \/>\u201cThe industry we\u2019ve seen these last couple of years isn\u2019t a cash machine  that\u2019s impervious to economic changes. All these tax increases are going to be coming off the  bottom line, which means less money for reinvestment.\u201d &#8212; <em><strong>MGM Resorts International<\/strong> spokesman <strong>Alan Feldman<\/strong>, decrying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2011\/jan\/08\/higher-slot-fees-seen-problematic\/\" target=\"_blank\">a potential fee increase<\/a> on slot machines that would be used to fund gaming regulation in <strong>Nevada<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe industry we\u2019ve seen these last couple of years isn\u2019t a cash machine that\u2019s impervious to economic changes. All these tax increases are going to be coming off the bottom line, which means less money for reinvestment.\u201d &#8212; MGM Resorts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-270\/\">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":[28,14,11,25,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547"}],"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=5547"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5556,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions\/5556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}