{"id":7161,"date":"2011-07-20T15:31:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-20T23:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=7161"},"modified":"2011-07-20T15:31:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T23:31:48","slug":"blast-from-the-recent-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/blast-from-the-recent-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the (recent) past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7162\" title=\"Chaltiel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Chaltiel-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Chaltiel-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Chaltiel-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Chaltiel.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Lookee here what I found while rummaging through the body count of <strong>Carolyn Goodman<\/strong>&#8216;s nascent political career: It&#8217;s everybody&#8217;s favorite &#8216;WTF?&#8217; mayoral candidate <strong>Victor Chaltiel<\/strong> and family. The <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> proteg\u00e9&#8217;s concern for the city of <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> always seemed about as real as this Photoshopped-into-the-desert studio pose &#8230; and as heartwarming as his mirthless rictus. Perhaps if Chaltiel decides to fail further upward &#8212; into Congress, say &#8212; he can always swap those mountains out for something more representative of his constituency &#8230; the <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> executive suite, perhaps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lookee here what I found while rummaging through the body count of Carolyn Goodman&#8216;s nascent political career: It&#8217;s everybody&#8217;s favorite &#8216;WTF?&#8217; mayoral candidate Victor Chaltiel and family. The Sheldon Adelson proteg\u00e9&#8217;s concern for the city of Las Vegas always seemed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/blast-from-the-recent-past\/\">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":[51,26,53,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161"}],"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=7161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7163,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7161\/revisions\/7163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}