{"id":8982,"date":"2012-05-10T14:12:38","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T22:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=8982"},"modified":"2012-05-10T14:12:38","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T22:12:38","slug":"sheldon-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/sheldon-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheldon speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4RZPvKk03nI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"259\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/4RZPvKk03nI?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; as does <strong>Las Vegas Sands<\/strong> COO <strong>Michael Leven<\/strong>. The big man starts talking four minutes in, following a introductory flourish of boastfulness and fawning intermingled. I feel bad for the interviewer: <strong>Sheldon Adelson<\/strong> can&#8217;t even accept <!--more-->a compliment without being argumentative. And the least he could do is credit the late Sen. <strong>Everett Dirksen<\/strong> (R-IL), whose &#8220;a billion here, a billion there&#8221; quip Adelson delivers as smugly as though he just thought it up. Anyway, sit back and enjoy 29 minutes of paranoia, siege mentality, buck-passing all the other qualities that typify the Sheldon you know and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; as does Las Vegas Sands COO Michael Leven. The big man starts talking four minutes in, following a introductory flourish of boastfulness and fawning intermingled. I feel bad for the interviewer: Sheldon Adelson can&#8217;t even accept<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[151,22,62,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982"}],"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=8982"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8983,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8982\/revisions\/8983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}