{"id":9678,"date":"2012-09-21T11:34:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T19:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9678"},"modified":"2012-09-21T12:11:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T20:11:25","slug":"usa-today-at-last-sorta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/usa-today-at-last-sorta\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today at last! (Sorta)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9683\" title=\"vegas\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vegas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vegas.jpg 667w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vegas-131x150.jpg 131w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/vegas-262x300.jpg 262w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Remember those <em>USA Today<\/em> travel guides whose writing put me hopelessly behind the <em>S&amp;G<\/em> 8-ball? (Two hundred and thirty-five e-mails still unread!) Well, if you&#8217;re staying at a <strong>Hilton<\/strong>-branded property (soon to include much of <strong>Trump International<\/strong>), you <em>can<\/em> view them through an online portal called <strong>The Point<\/strong>. They are also destined for inclusion on <strong>Hotelme.com<\/strong>, at a time yet to be announced. Anyway, the first update looms near, so I&#8217;m not too many places and events from the first edition have to be de-listed &#8230; although <strong>Taylor Hicks<\/strong> is definitely &#8220;in&#8221; and the <strong>Flamingo Las Vegas<\/strong> wildlife area will receive serious consideration. Except for that &#8220;Quad&#8221; stupidity, <!--more--><strong>Caesars Entertainment<\/strong> has played a good PR hand this week. As for Trump, my reckoning is that, depending on the performance of those first 300 <strong>Hilton Grand Vacations<\/strong> units, what we&#8217;re seeing is the early phase of a stealthy Trump retreat from Vegas, ceding the field to Hilton.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9687\" title=\"Vegas2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Vegas2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Vegas2-150x130.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Vegas2-300x260.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember those USA Today travel guides whose writing put me hopelessly behind the S&amp;G 8-ball? (Two hundred and thirty-five e-mails still unread!) Well, if you&#8217;re staying at a Hilton-branded property (soon to include much of Trump International), you can view &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/usa-today-at-last-sorta\/\">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":[28,42,4,7,9,19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678"}],"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=9678"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9684,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions\/9684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}