{"id":179,"date":"2007-02-20T17:48:07","date_gmt":"2007-02-20T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fivehundybymidnight.com\/fhbm\/2007\/02\/20\/las-vegas-links-two\/"},"modified":"2008-12-20T17:12:41","modified_gmt":"2008-12-20T22:12:41","slug":"las-vegas-links-two","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fivehundybymidnight.com\/fhbm\/2007\/02\/20\/las-vegas-links-two\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Evening Las Vegas Links: Feb. 20 Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We get a lot of information from the Las Vegas Review Journal, but I think it&#8217;s time for someone over there to start listening to Five Hundy by Midnight. Today&#8217;s paper includes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/lvrj_home\/2007\/Feb-20-Tue-2007\/news\/12688802.html\" target=\"_blank\">news of GM closing The Drive<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe test track behind Sahara where people too dumb to go to a GM dealership to test drive a car for free could pay for the opportunity. GM closed The Drive three months ago, and we reported on it in show #96.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of closings, let&#8217;s hope the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lasvegassun.com\/sunbin\/stories\/sun\/2007\/feb\/18\/566650460.html?binion\" target=\"_blank\">Las Vegas Sun&#8217;s speculation about MTR Gaming shuttering Binion&#8217;s<\/a> proves false. Someone needs to step in to save the legendary old joint. <\/p>\n<p>If Wayne Newton&#8217;s horrible pre-game lipsyncing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/lvrj_home\/2007\/Feb-20-Tue-2007\/news\/12693500.html\" target=\"_blank\">post-game shootings<\/a> and gridlocked Las Vegas Strip traffic aren&#8217;t enough to make you glad you didn&#8217;t attend the NBA All-Star Game last weekend, surely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/lvrj_home\/2007\/Feb-20-Tue-2007\/news\/12695348.html\" target=\"_blank\">reports of the mess at McCarran International Airport<\/a> will make you thankful you stayed home. If you feel like you missed something, read <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=simmons\/070220\" target=\"_blank\">Sports Guy&#8217;s extensive wrap-up.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Vegas links covering the closing of The Drive at Sahara, speculation about the future of Binion&#8217;s and last weekend&#8217;s NBA All-Star Game festivities in Sin City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-las-vegas-links"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pDEuM-2T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivehundybymidnight.com\/fhbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivehundybymidnight.com\/fhbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivehundybymidnight.com\/fhbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivehundybymidnight.com\/fhbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivehundybymidnight.com\/fhbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivehundybymidnight.com\/fhbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fivehundybymidnight.com\/fhbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivehundybymidnight.com\/fhbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fivehundybymidnight.com\/fhbm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}