{"id":8089,"date":"2011-12-15T15:18:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T23:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8089"},"modified":"2011-12-15T15:19:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T23:19:47","slug":"fun-with-math","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/fun-with-math\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with math"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8090\" title=\"Walmart sign\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Walmart-sign.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"259\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Walmart-sign.jpg 259w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Walmart-sign-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 259px) 100vw, 259px\" \/>There&#8217;s regular arithmetic and then there&#8217;s <strong>Walmart<\/strong> math. I mean, who ever knew that a 29% price <em>in<\/em>crease constituted a &#8220;rollback&#8221;? Perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t be sharing this novel concept with the gaming industry, giving them ideas, but <em>S&amp;G<\/em> readers deserve a bit of holiday levity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s regular arithmetic and then there&#8217;s Walmart math. I mean, who ever knew that a 29% price increase constituted a &#8220;rollback&#8221;? Perhaps I shouldn&#8217;t be sharing this novel concept with the gaming industry, giving them ideas, but S&amp;G readers deserve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/fun-with-math\/\">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":[28,53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089"}],"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=8089"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8092,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8089\/revisions\/8092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}