{"id":6807,"date":"2011-05-31T10:48:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-31T18:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=6807"},"modified":"2011-05-31T10:48:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-31T18:48:50","slug":"quote-of-the-day-328","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-328\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6808\" title=\"Illinois riverboat\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Illinois-riverboat-150x100.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"188\" height=\"125\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Illinois-riverboat-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Illinois-riverboat-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Illinois-riverboat.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/>&#8220;[That&#8217;s] like saying that a third of the houses available are vacant, but let&#8217;s help the economy by building more houses.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Illinois Casino Gaming Association<\/strong> Executive Director <strong>Tom Swoik<\/strong>, testifying against a bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/political-fix\/article_8a54fd4e-8b08-11e0-9fc6-0019bb30f31a.html\" target=\"_blank\">that would more than double the number of casino licenses<\/a> in <strong>Illinois<\/strong>. The measure could be signed into law as early as tonight<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;[That&#8217;s] like saying that a third of the houses available are vacant, but let&#8217;s help the economy by building more houses.&#8221; &#8212; Illinois Casino Gaming Association Executive Director Tom Swoik, testifying against a bill that would more than double the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-328\/\">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":[28,14,58,33,111,25,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6807"}],"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=6807"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6810,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6807\/revisions\/6810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}