{"id":617,"date":"2008-10-19T19:56:08","date_gmt":"2008-10-19T19:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sch1auh0s7.site.nfoservers.com\/wp_lew1slau\/?p=617"},"modified":"2022-02-25T20:12:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T20:12:50","slug":"las-vegas-strip-vs-rus-rest-of-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/19\/las-vegas-strip-vs-rus-rest-of-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Strip vs. RUS (Rest Of U.S.)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Traveled to Las Vegas last week for work, and got upgraded to a suite facing the Las Vegas Boulevard&#8230; right across from the ginormous construction site for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.citycenter.com\/\">City Center<\/a>&#8230; while I understand that once you start a development, it is impossible to stop &#8211; but is such a monstrous development economically feasible at such a horrible time for the country? Although I haven&#8217;t head of people jumping off buildings just yet, but I also know no one is going out and spending $500,000+ on a condo&#8230; especially in a place like Las Vegas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But of course, Las Vegas isn&#8217;t like any other place in the United States &#8211; there is so much money flowing in and out on&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hotelinteractive.com\/article.aspx?articleID=6854\">The Strip<\/a>&nbsp;every day there that it just may defy all logical reasoning in these strange financial times&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traveled to Las Vegas last week for work, and got upgraded to a suite facing the Las Vegas Boulevard&#8230; right across from the ginormous construction site for\u00a0City Center&#8230; while I understand that once you start a development, it is impossible to stop &#8211; but is such a monstrous development economically feasible at such a horrible&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":618,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617\/revisions\/618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewislau.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}