{"id":6659,"date":"2011-05-16T09:38:49","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T17:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=6659"},"modified":"2020-07-02T04:39:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T12:39:18","slug":"quote-of-the-day-323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-323\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6661\" title=\"Pippa-Middleton1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pippa-Middleton1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pippa-Middleton1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pippa-Middleton1-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Pippa-Middleton1.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>&#8220;<strong>Pippa<\/strong> [<strong>Middleton<\/strong>]\u2014Kate\u2019s sister\u2014yes, she\u2019s attractive, but can the world\u2019s media pump the brakes a little? Half the cocktail waitresses in <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> make her look like she fell off the back of a royal carriage, got run over by a white horse and was patched up by a blind seamstress.&#8221; &#8212; <em>British expat <strong>Ben Conmy<\/strong>, reporting on the recent royal wedding (no, not the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nMXg2GYjLOE&amp;feature=related\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contemporaneous<\/a> <strong>Steve Wynn<\/strong> nuptials), as seen from the <strong>Queen Victoria British Pub<\/strong> at the <strong>Riviera<\/strong><\/em>.<em> Incidentally, a reliable source informs me that the potatoes at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/referenceguide-diningdetail.cfm?DiningID=1217\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Queen Victoria Pub<\/a> are the real thing, not the made-from-powder stuff that the Riv&#8217;s been serving elsewhere<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Pippa [Middleton]\u2014Kate\u2019s sister\u2014yes, she\u2019s attractive, but can the world\u2019s media pump the brakes a little? Half the cocktail waitresses in Las Vegas make her look like she fell off the back of a royal carriage, got run over by a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-323\/\">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":[18,4,22,55,32,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659"}],"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=6659"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27446,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6659\/revisions\/27446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}