{"id":7927,"date":"2011-11-14T15:16:45","date_gmt":"2011-11-14T23:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=7927"},"modified":"2011-11-14T15:16:45","modified_gmt":"2011-11-14T23:16:45","slug":"blast-from-the-past-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/blast-from-the-past-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Blast from the past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m busy on &#8220;Question of the Day,&#8221; <em>Desert Companion<\/em> and <em>CityLife<\/em> fronts simultaneously. As irrational compensation, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/iTt5lfVkWJw\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the one scene<\/a> from <em>Ocean&#8217;s Eleven<\/em> that, more than any other, must be preserved for posterity. It&#8217;s also a nice look at the <strong>Sahara<\/strong> back in its glory days, before the succession of <strong>Paul Lowden<\/strong>, <strong>Bill Bennett<\/strong> and <strong>Sam Nazarian<\/strong> turned it into the biggest grind joint on the Strip. But let&#8217;s forget that for now and bask in the greatness that was <strong>Dean Martin<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m busy on &#8220;Question of the Day,&#8221; Desert Companion and CityLife fronts simultaneously. As irrational compensation, here&#8217;s the one scene from Ocean&#8217;s Eleven that, more than any other, must be preserved for posterity. It&#8217;s also a nice look at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/blast-from-the-past-8\/\">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":[46,140,10,54,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927"}],"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=7927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7928,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7927\/revisions\/7928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}