{"id":8250,"date":"2012-01-13T09:55:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T17:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8250"},"modified":"2012-01-13T11:21:12","modified_gmt":"2012-01-13T19:21:12","slug":"quote-of-the-day-392","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-392\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-5325\" title=\"Sheldon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Sheldon-150x99.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"99\" \/>\u201cI know there\u2019s a perception in life that people who become financially  successful do so by climbing up the broken backs of people whose backs  they break, but I never climbed up on anybody\u2019s broken back.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong>&#8216;s<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/news\/2012\/jan\/13\/sources-adelson-contributed-campaign-had-no-say-vi\/\" target=\"_blank\">apologia pro vita sua<\/a>.<em> In other matters Adelsonian, his $5 million venture into movie distribution <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/politics\/la-pn-newt-gingrich-pac-bain-ads-20120113,0,3413654.story\" target=\"_blank\">may get shelved<\/a> after it received the<\/em> Washington Post&#8217;s <em>not-so-coveted &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/fact-checker\/post\/four-pinocchios-for-king-of-bain\/2012\/01\/12\/gIQADX8WuP_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">four-Pinocchios<\/a>&#8216; rating<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI know there\u2019s a perception in life that people who become financially successful do so by climbing up the broken backs of people whose backs they break, but I never climbed up on anybody\u2019s broken back.&#8221; &#8212; Sheldon Adelson&#8216;s apologia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-392\/\">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":[26,12,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250"}],"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=8250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8257,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8250\/revisions\/8257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}