{"id":6128,"date":"2011-03-25T09:55:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=6128"},"modified":"2021-07-20T15:28:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T23:28:46","slug":"courting-the-curious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/courting-the-curious\/","title":{"rendered":"Courting the curious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fifth in a six-video series that <strong>The Cosmopolitan<\/strong> has been running on cable TV. But not on the usual casino-friendly channels like <strong>ESPN<\/strong>. No, the Cosmo has targeted the<strong> Sundance Channel<\/strong> and <strong>IFC<\/strong> for these spots. People who get up early to watch arcana like <em>River Red<\/em> or live in anticipation of the next <strong>Wes Anderson<\/strong> opus are definitely off the beaten path as go-to customers for casino resorts. So credit Cosmo for thinking differently. While <strong>Wynncore<\/strong> and <strong>CityCenter<\/strong> openly pine for the affluent set, Cosmo CEO <strong>John Unwin<\/strong> and his crew are positioning themselves for the <em>haute-bourgeois<\/em> niche, the upper middle class (or those of us who might like to indulge in an economic fantasy). It&#8217;s innovative and let&#8217;s hope it works &#8230; as it seems to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the fifth in a six-video series that The Cosmopolitan has been running on cable TV. But not on the usual casino-friendly channels like ESPN. No, the Cosmo has targeted the Sundance Channel and IFC for these spots. People &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/courting-the-curious\/\">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":[56,66,28,18,26,4,53,11,32,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128"}],"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=6128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29868,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6128\/revisions\/29868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}