{"id":8284,"date":"2012-01-17T11:14:10","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T19:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8284"},"modified":"2012-01-17T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T19:14:10","slug":"quote-of-the-day-393","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-393\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8285\" title=\"CES\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CES.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CES.jpeg 466w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CES-150x99.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/CES-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>&#8220;To see Vegas through the eyes of a CES attendee is to stare into the  loudest, brightest, most colour-saturated nook of hell. With 200,000  people \u2014 mainly men \u2014 crowded into an area just a few miles square, the  city becomes one big lumbering, sweaty mass of ill-fitting suits,  bluetooth headsets and shwag.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>Paul Carr<\/strong>, newly relocated to downtown Las Vegas, <a href=\"http:\/\/pandodaily.com\/2012\/01\/16\/yeah-if-i-only-visited-vegas-during-ces-id-hate-the-city-too\/\" target=\"_blank\">having his first, culture-shocking encounter<\/a> with the <strong>Consumer Electronics Show<\/strong>, lifeblood of Sin City&#8217;s convention industry<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;To see Vegas through the eyes of a CES attendee is to stare into the loudest, brightest, most colour-saturated nook of hell. With 200,000 people \u2014 mainly men \u2014 crowded into an area just a few miles square, the city &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-393\/\">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":[75],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284"}],"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=8284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8287,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8284\/revisions\/8287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}