{"id":5649,"date":"2011-01-25T12:59:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T20:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5649"},"modified":"2018-11-21T08:56:19","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T16:56:19","slug":"the-gospel-according-to-sheldon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/the-gospel-according-to-sheldon\/","title":{"rendered":"The gospel according to Sheldon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People like to blame somebody,&#8221; he says. Exhibit A: <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>, whose operative motto is clearly, &#8220;When in doubt, find a scapegoat.&#8221; If you&#8217;re looking for accountability, the executives offices of <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> are the wrong place in which to seek it. Unlike papal infallibility, the Adelsonian version is unconditional. But I doubt the CEO is much bothered by the mathematics employed by <strong>ABC News<\/strong>, which confuses cash flow with profit. As with analyst meetings Sands held during <strong>Global Gaming Expo<\/strong>, there seems to be a gentleman&#8217;s agreement not to discuss the white elephant that is <strong>Sands Bethlehem<\/strong>, a project that &#8212; at its present snail-like pace &#8212; is unlikely to see completion in Adelson&#8217;s lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;People like to blame somebody,&#8221; he says. Exhibit A: Sheldon Adelson, whose operative motto is clearly, &#8220;When in doubt, find a scapegoat.&#8221; If you&#8217;re looking for accountability, the executives offices of Las Vegas Sands are the wrong place in which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/the-gospel-according-to-sheldon\/\">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":[62,95,12,108,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649"}],"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=5649"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22961,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5649\/revisions\/22961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}