{"id":716,"date":"2009-01-26T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/1\/26\/Quote-of-the-Day"},"modified":"2009-01-26T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T22:03:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-50\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/echelon_1aug2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;This was one of the smartest decisions Boyd ever made. They lost $500 million by stopping the project. If they had gone forward, they might have lost $5 billion and the company.&quot; &#8212; <em><strong>Macquarie Capital<\/strong> analyst <strong>Joel Simkins<\/strong> on <strong>Boyd Gaming<\/strong>&apos;s stoppage of <strong>Echelon<\/strong> last summer.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;This was one of the smartest decisions Boyd ever made. They lost $500 million by stopping the project. If they had gone forward, they might have lost $5 billion and the company.&quot; &#8212; Macquarie Capital analyst Joel Simkins on Boyd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-50\/\">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":[60,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716"}],"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=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}