{"id":5621,"date":"2011-01-25T10:24:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2011-01-25T10:24:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-25T18:24:08","slug":"quote-of-the-day-277","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-277\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5285\" title=\"harry-reid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/harry-reid-144x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/harry-reid-144x150.jpg 144w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/harry-reid.jpg 285w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 144px) 100vw, 144px\" \/>&#8220;Lack of interest leads to not taking gambling seriously. Even a smart politician like <strong>Barack Obama<\/strong> can make the mistake of telling people not to waste their money going to <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> &#8212; twice. Obama knows that <strong>Nevada<\/strong> is a swing state. And he knows it is represented in the U.S. Senate by <strong>Harry Reid<\/strong>, the Majority Leader, who is also a Democrat. He would not make a similar slip about nuclear arms, health care or the auto industry.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>I. Nelson Rose<\/strong>, from his newest column, &#8220;The Danger of Not Caring About Gaming.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Lack of interest leads to not taking gambling seriously. Even a smart politician like Barack Obama can make the mistake of telling people not to waste their money going to Las Vegas &#8212; twice. Obama knows that Nevada is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-277\/\">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":[52,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621"}],"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=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5644,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions\/5644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}