{"id":5827,"date":"2011-02-24T15:18:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T23:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2011-02-24T15:20:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T23:20:14","slug":"quote-of-the-day-287","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-287\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5828\" title=\"Dragon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Dragon-150x132.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"132\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Dragon-150x132.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Dragon-300x265.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Dragon.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>&#8220;But the thing I truly, truly cannot live without, is a &#8216;<strong>Kirin Dragon<\/strong>.&#8217; That beaut there is a 7.5-foot-tall fiberglass statue.  I can&#8217;t imagine where it was supposed to go or why, with this on hand,  they threw that crappy <strong>Henry Moore<\/strong> into the pocket park.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Steve Friess<\/strong>, on <strong>MGM Resorts International<\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thestrippodcast.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/mgm-resorts-holds-presidents-day-fire.html\" target=\"_blank\">online auction<\/a> of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/cagp.com\/catalog\/cat022111V2.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">a whole bunch<\/a> of damaged or excess, well, crap&#8221; intended for <strong>CityCenter<\/strong> &#8230; but available to be repurposed within the comfort of your own home. Yes, you too can pretend to be the owner of a <strong>Dubai World<\/strong>-financed, failed experiment in &#8220;new urbanism.&#8221; (Methinks some incongruously upscale furnishings are going to start turning up in low-budget and tribal casinos across our great country.)<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But the thing I truly, truly cannot live without, is a &#8216;Kirin Dragon.&#8217; That beaut there is a 7.5-foot-tall fiberglass statue. I can&#8217;t imagine where it was supposed to go or why, with this on hand, they threw that crappy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-287\/\">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":[65,56,134,11,9,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827"}],"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=5827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5830,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions\/5830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}