{"id":8506,"date":"2012-02-14T15:37:18","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8506"},"modified":"2012-02-14T15:37:18","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T23:37:18","slug":"quote-of-the-day-401","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-401\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8507\" title=\"Hacienda postcard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hacienda-postcard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hacienda-postcard.jpg 575w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hacienda-postcard-150x71.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hacienda-postcard-300x143.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/>&#8220;It&#8217;s one of the imperatives of the <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> hype machine that we never allow ourselves to dwell on our mistakes, publicly or privately. How many people remember <em>Avenue Q<\/em> at <strong>Wynn<\/strong>? <em>Hairspray<\/em> at <strong>Luxor<\/strong>? <strong>Columbia Sussex<\/strong> at the <strong>Tropicana<\/strong>? The <strong>Hacienda<\/strong> casino? It&#8217;s as if these things never existed, and they&#8217;ve been swept from the collective Las Vegas psyche that&#8217;s always focused on looking to the next play.&#8221; &#8212; <em><strong>David G. Schwartz<\/strong>, director of <strong>UNLV<\/strong>&#8216;s <strong>Center for Gaming Research<\/strong> writing in the<\/em> Two Way Hard Three <em>blog<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s one of the imperatives of the Las Vegas hype machine that we never allow ourselves to dwell on our mistakes, publicly or privately. How many people remember Avenue Q at Wynn? Hairspray at Luxor? Columbia Sussex at the Tropicana? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-401\/\">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":[15,4,140,11,32,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506"}],"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=8506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8508,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8506\/revisions\/8508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}