{"id":6706,"date":"2011-05-18T11:28:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T19:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=6706"},"modified":"2011-05-18T11:28:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T19:28:56","slug":"quote-of-the-day-325","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-325\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6708\" title=\"The Leach\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/The-Leach-105x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/The-Leach-105x150.jpg 105w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/The-Leach-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/The-Leach.jpg 246w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 105px) 100vw, 105px\" \/>&#8220;I&#8217;ve dealt with a lot of big city PRs in my life and I&#8217;ve never, ever  seen the kind of defensiveness I experienced in <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong>. Maybe they&#8217;re  just not used to being asked actual questions, I thought: after all,  the city&#8217;s most high profile entertainment &#8216;journalist&#8217; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vegasdeluxe.com\/\" target=\"_hplink\">the guy<\/a> who used to host <em>Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous<\/em>:  a man who, had he been present for the killing of <strong>Osama bin Laden<\/strong>,  would have felt compelled to praise the man&#8217;s history of charity work.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Paul Carr<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/paul-carr\/the-strip-diary-epilogue-_b_858919.html\" target=\"_blank\">summing up his month<\/a> in Vegas for <\/em>The Huffington Post. <em>In addition to Sin City&#8217;s small-town mentality, Carr also encounters its present-day symbol: the wild <strong>douchebag<\/strong> on the hoof<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve dealt with a lot of big city PRs in my life and I&#8217;ve never, ever seen the kind of defensiveness I experienced in Las Vegas. Maybe they&#8217;re just not used to being asked actual questions, I thought: after all, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-325\/\">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":[133,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706"}],"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=6706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6709,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6706\/revisions\/6709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}