{"id":9255,"date":"2012-06-21T12:44:02","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T20:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9255"},"modified":"2012-06-21T12:44:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T20:44:02","slug":"shocking-preliminary-finding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/shocking-preliminary-finding\/","title":{"rendered":"Shocking preliminary finding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1365\" title=\"paris-las-vegas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/paris-las-vegas-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/paris-las-vegas-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/paris-las-vegas-150x135.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/paris-las-vegas.jpg 553w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Although I&#8217;m still swotting on <em>USA Today<\/em> copy, the finish line is within sight and the <strong>Las Vegas Strip<\/strong> property with the most name-checks to date is &#8212; surprise of surprises &#8212; <strong>Paris-Las Vegas<\/strong>, singled out in multiple categories. Who&#8217;da thought the Strip&#8217;s last-ever mid-market casino, opened in 1999, would outpace so many newcomers? (Mind you, affordability is an important criterion.) <strong>Planet Hollywood<\/strong> is racking up a few plugs, too. Now, my editors could throw all this out and send me back to Square One, but it&#8217;s certainly an outcome I didn&#8217;t expect when I started surveying the Strip, several weeks back. Another surprise: <strong>Circus Circus<\/strong> has more &#8220;bests&#8221; than does <strong>Caesars Palace<\/strong>. Current and former <strong>Steve Wynn<\/strong> properties also fared well, an unscientific metric of how well they retain their value. But I&#8217;m afraid to <!--more-->bless anything at the <strong>Tropicana<\/strong>, since its amenities rarely enjoy long life spans, making them risky recommendations. Too bad there&#8217;s not a category for Most Superfluous Hotel, because <strong>Trump International<\/strong> would win that race by several furlongs, giving <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong> one more &#8220;most&#8221; he could tout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although I&#8217;m still swotting on USA Today copy, the finish line is within sight and the Las Vegas Strip property with the most name-checks to date is &#8212; surprise of surprises &#8212; Paris-Las Vegas, singled out in multiple categories. Who&#8217;da &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/shocking-preliminary-finding\/\">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":[48,42,7,11,6,32,9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255"}],"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=9255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9256,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9255\/revisions\/9256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}