{"id":9830,"date":"2012-10-11T23:25:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T07:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=9830"},"modified":"2012-10-11T23:28:42","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T07:28:42","slug":"you-cant-cure-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/you-cant-cure-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"You can&#8217;t cure stupidity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" 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\/MKkHG4fS4Kk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/MKkHG4fS4Kk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For the record, I wouldn&#8217;t know <strong>John Oceguera<\/strong> from a manhole cover and the amount of &#8216;truthiness&#8217; in this ad is of no concern to me. But it&#8217;s in heavy rotation on <strong>Las Vegas<\/strong> TV stations and makes me grind my molars every time I see it. Why? Because it was obviously crafted by some <strong>K Street<\/strong> snobs who think we Silver State rubes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrcc.org\/video\/meet-nv-03-john-oceguera\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">need to have everything spelled out to us in cheesy, ancient casino metaphors<\/a> because we&#8217;re too fucking dumb to do anything but gamble. Condescending much? I give this spot an &#8216;F&#8217; for creativity &#8212; or lack thereof &#8212; and a &#8216;D&#8217; for dumbassitude.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the record, I wouldn&#8217;t know John Oceguera from a manhole cover and the amount of &#8216;truthiness&#8217; in this ad is of no concern to me. But it&#8217;s in heavy rotation on Las Vegas TV stations and makes me grind &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/you-cant-cure-stupid\/\">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":[133,28,26,53,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830"}],"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=9830"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9834,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9830\/revisions\/9834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}