{"id":649,"date":"2008-11-25T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2008\/11\/25\/Packers-reverse-Midas-Touch"},"modified":"2008-11-25T17:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T01:52:00","slug":"packers-reverse-midas-touch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/packers-reverse-midas-touch\/","title":{"rendered":"Packer&apos;s reverse Midas Touch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember what I wrote yesterday about <strong>James Packer<\/strong> being bad luck for everything with which he gets involved? Now <strong>Station Casinos<\/strong> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvrj.com\/news\/breaking_news\/35095264.html\">the latest victim<\/a> of his reverse Midas Touch (and he owns a portion of <strong>Harrah&apos;s Entertainment<\/strong>, too). Maybe we should be hoping his purchase of <strong>Cannery Casino Resorts<\/strong> doesn&apos;t go through, because Dame Fortune is not smiling upon the heir to Packer billions these days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember what I wrote yesterday about James Packer being bad luck for everything with which he gets involved? Now Station Casinos is the latest victim of his reverse Midas Touch (and he owns a portion of Harrah&apos;s Entertainment, too). Maybe &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/packers-reverse-midas-touch\/\">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":[73,7,96,57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"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=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}