{"id":6862,"date":"2011-06-08T08:41:16","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=6862"},"modified":"2011-06-08T08:41:16","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:41:16","slug":"a-time-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/a-time-out\/","title":{"rendered":"A time-out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6864\" title=\"Schoolmarm\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Schoolmarm-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Schoolmarm-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Schoolmarm-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Schoolmarm.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Had I known that the recent kerfuffle over who <strong>Paul Revere<\/strong> did and didn&#8217;t intend to warn that the Redcoats were coming would devolve into name-calling between commenters, I&#8217;d never have posted that unfortunate quote. So, as of today, I&#8217;m taking it down. And reminding every one here that calling another poster a name is strictly <em>verboten<\/em>, as are racial, religious, ethnic, sexual and cultural slurs, and (on a somewhat lighter note) all-caps posting. Class is dismissed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had I known that the recent kerfuffle over who Paul Revere did and didn&#8217;t intend to warn that the Redcoats were coming would devolve into name-calling between commenters, I&#8217;d never have posted that unfortunate quote. So, as of today, I&#8217;m &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/a-time-out\/\">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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862"}],"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=6862"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6866,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6862\/revisions\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}