{"id":590,"date":"2008-04-02T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-02T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/4\/2\/Understatement-of-the-Century"},"modified":"2008-04-02T11:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-02T19:58:00","slug":"understatement-of-the-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/understatement-of-the-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Understatement of the Century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I understand that there&apos;s not a lot of respect for education in Southern Nevada.&quot; &#8212; <i><b>David Schwartz<\/b>, director of the <b>UNLV Center for Gaming Research<\/b>. For the full context, read <\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dieiscast.com\/2008\/04\/01\/who-needs-algebra\" class=\"broken_link\"><i>Die Is Cast<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Crazy Bonus Stat:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>53% of <i>Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/i> readers (in unscientific online poll) say Joe Torre&apos;s <b>Los Angeles Dodgers<\/b> will have a better season than Joe Girardi&apos;s <b>New York Yankees<\/b>. Well, I saw the Dodgers eke out a win last night against a wretched <b>San Francisco Giants<\/b> team comprised of rookies and players in the twilight of their careers, and it wasn&apos;t impressive. Dodger fans, you&apos;re in for a long summer, I&apos;m afraid. (Not that my <b>Los Angeles Angels<\/b> are looking so hot right now, with the #1 and #2 starting pitchers on the shelf indefinitely.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;I understand that there&apos;s not a lot of respect for education in Southern Nevada.&quot; &#8212; David Schwartz, director of the UNLV Center for Gaming Research. For the full context, read Die Is Cast. Crazy Bonus Stat: 53% of Las Vegas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/understatement-of-the-century\/\">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":[113,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590"}],"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=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}