{"id":7447,"date":"2011-09-09T10:25:51","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T18:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=7447"},"modified":"2016-07-12T08:27:31","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T16:27:31","slug":"who-says-irony-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/who-says-irony-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Who says irony is dead?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Las Vegas Review-Journal<\/em> newshound <strong>Norm(!) Clarke<\/strong> reports that, in January, the <strong>Nevada Ballet Theater<\/strong>&#8216;s annual honoree will be &#8230; wait for it &#8230; <strong>Eva Longoria<\/strong>. What a concept: Fail miserably at business, get an award! <em>S&amp;G<\/em> looks forward to future NBT recognition of <strong>Tom Barrack<\/strong>, <strong>James Packer<\/strong>, <strong>Jeffrey Soffer<\/strong>, <strong>Ian Bruce Eichner<\/strong>, <strong>Lyle Berman<\/strong>, <strong>Ed Scheetz<\/strong> and sundry other wannabe casino potentates who came to Vegas only to have their clocks cleaned. In what venue will Ms. Longoria be receiving her dubious-achievement award? You guessed it, <strong>Aria<\/strong>. Where else?<\/p>\n<p><strong>I have to admit<\/strong>, this is a <em>most<\/em> ingenious way for <strong><!--more-->Tennessee Titans<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">reclamation project<\/span> quarterback <strong>Matt Hasselbeck<\/strong> to <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/blog\/shutdown_corner\/post\/NFL-players-may-be-fined-for-wearing-unauthorize?urn=nfl-wp6799\" target=\"_blank\">change the topic of conversation<\/a> from the over\/under on how many interceptions he&#8217;s going to throw this Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas Review-Journal newshound Norm(!) Clarke reports that, in January, the Nevada Ballet Theater&#8216;s annual honoree will be &#8230; wait for it &#8230; Eva Longoria. What a concept: Fail miserably at business, get an award! S&amp;G looks forward to future &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/who-says-irony-is-dead\/\">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":[24,56,3,66,59,96,136,11,102,74],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447"}],"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=7447"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18503,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7447\/revisions\/18503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}