{"id":717,"date":"2009-01-19T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/1\/19\/Sign-of-the-times"},"modified":"2009-01-19T18:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-20T02:03:00","slug":"sign-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/sign-of-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Sign of the times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we honor <strong>Dr. Martin Luther King Jr<\/strong>. and his ennobling vision, which finally appears to be within reach. Of course, some have a different way of celebrating this &#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"229\" height=\"127\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/6X_MLK_Day09_B_tlarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">I think I missed the part of the &quot;I have a dream&quot; speech in which Dr. King foresaw <strong>6X points<\/strong> in America&apos;s future. Anyway, we&apos;ve heard and read about &quot;The dream deferred.&quot; This year it seems to be &quot;The dream downsized.&quot; Here&apos;s last year&apos;s <strong>MLK Day<\/strong> promo from the same casino chain:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"514\" src=\"\/userfiles\/Image\/7x-mlk.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">So 1X fewer points and two fewer days in which to earn them. Don&apos;t tell me they&apos;re <em>not<\/em> sweating the comps here in Vegas. And that is something upon which men and women of all creeds, colors and nationalities can agree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his ennobling vision, which finally appears to be within reach. Of course, some have a different way of celebrating this &#8230; I think I missed the part of the &quot;I have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/sign-of-the-times\/\">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\/717"}],"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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}