{"id":48,"date":"2005-05-24T19:03:07","date_gmt":"2005-05-25T02:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=48"},"modified":"2008-11-27T13:45:19","modified_gmt":"2008-11-27T20:45:19","slug":"what-happens-in-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=48","title":{"rendered":"What Happens in Vegas . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Las Vegas: What Happens Here, Stays Here.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I hate that slogan. Like people go to Las Vegas for sex orgies or something. The people I see on the Strip are with their spouses, and, quite often, their children. They&#8217;re doing things in Vegas that need to stay in Vegas?<\/p>\n<p>We drove up last weekend to visit the kids and grandkids and to see friends. Having lived there a few years ourselves, we usually don&#8217;t go to the Strip, but this time we made an exception and went to see the water show at the Bellagio. Impressive, in a Springtime-for-Hitler sort of way:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_873\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-873\" style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-873\" title=\"bellagio1\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/bellagio1.gif\" alt=\"Springtime for Hitler\" width=\"359\" height=\"271\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-873\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Springtime for Hitler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Well, come to think of it, there are a few things that should stay in Vegas:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_872\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-872\" style=\"width: 258px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-872\" title=\"mobile\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/mobile.gif\" alt=\"Rolling billboard cruising the Strip\" width=\"258\" height=\"196\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-872\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolling billboard cruising the Strip<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yes. Rolling billboards. You know, it&#8217;s not like traffic on the Strip isn&#8217;t already bumper to bumper. . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas: What Happens Here, Stays Here. I hate that slogan. Like people go to Las Vegas for sex orgies or something. The people I see on the Strip are with their spouses, and, quite often, their children. They&#8217;re doing things in Vegas that need to stay in Vegas? We drove up last weekend to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":871,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}