{"id":6793,"date":"2011-05-27T12:17:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T20:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=6793"},"modified":"2021-01-14T06:10:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-14T14:10:45","slug":"quote-of-the-day-314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-314\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With the recession, the gap between the rich and poor grows ever greater, and <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> is a microcosm of that right in front of us. the gambling and waste in this town confounds me &#8212; within feet of a craps table where someone can lay down a $500 chip, you can find someone who might not have eaten that day. But in this play you&#8217;ve got characters willing to gamble their own food money in a lottery with an undetermined prize, so they&#8217;re stuck in a strange cycle as well. Las Vegas has extreme wealth and yet one of the fastest-growing homeless populations. As <strong>Mr. Wig<\/strong> says, &#8216;If I had one lousy penny from every tourist that passed by, I&#8217;d be one of the &#8220;rich-ists&#8221; too!'&#8221; &#8212; <em>playwright <strong>Erica Griffin<\/strong>, whose newest black comedy<\/em>, Casa de Nada, <em>is set in a Las Vegas homeless encampment. It premieres June 3 as part of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvlt.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Las Vegas Little Theatre<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvlt.org\/Fringe2011Home.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" class=\"broken_link\">Fringe Festival<\/a><\/strong><\/em>. <em>More of my interview of Ms. Griffin will appear in the June 2 issue of<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegascitylife.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Las Vegas CityLife<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;With the recession, the gap between the rich and poor grows ever greater, and Las Vegas is a microcosm of that right in front of us. the gambling and waste in this town confounds me &#8212; within feet of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-314\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,14,4,9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793"}],"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=6793"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29092,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6793\/revisions\/29092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}