{"id":9072,"date":"2012-05-21T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T18:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9072"},"modified":"2012-05-21T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T18:52:09","slug":"quote-of-the-day-422","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-422\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-9073\" title=\"Route 66\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Route-66-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Route-66-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Route-66-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Route-66-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Route-66.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>&#8220;&#8216;Eleven, the Hard Way&#8217; (1961), about a small town that sends a gambler [<strong>Walter Matthau<\/strong>]  to <strong>Reno<\/strong> to try to win it a return to prosperity after the local mine  goes bust, seems like a metaphor for all those states that hope a casino  economy can replace their lost manufacturing revenue.&#8221; &#8212; <em>the<\/em> New York Times&#8217; <em><strong>Neal Genzlinger<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/05\/20\/arts\/television\/route-66-shows-50-year-old-issues-relevant-today.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">on the cultural prescience<\/a> of<\/em> Route 66.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8216;Eleven, the Hard Way&#8217; (1961), about a small town that sends a gambler [Walter Matthau] to Reno to try to win it a return to prosperity after the local mine goes bust, seems like a metaphor for all those states &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-422\/\">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":[14,79,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072"}],"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=9072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9074,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9072\/revisions\/9074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}