{"id":404,"date":"2016-07-07T18:34:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-07T22:34:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/?p=404"},"modified":"2016-07-07T18:34:35","modified_gmt":"2016-07-07T22:34:35","slug":"vegas-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=404","title":{"rendered":"Vegas Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spent four days in Vegas over the holiday weekend. Traversed 33.3 miles of casinos and bars and flashing lights. The average temperature was 101 degrees. I didn\u2019t read nearly as much as I planned, so my reviews of \u201cNew Hope\u201d by Steve Hobbs and \u201cThe Bull\u201d by Erica Crockett will be delayed. Although, I can assure you both books are quite good.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160703_171230716_HDR.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-405 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160703_171230716_HDR-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20160703_171230716_HDR\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160703_171230716_HDR-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160703_171230716_HDR-768x1135.jpg 768w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160703_171230716_HDR-693x1024.jpg 693w, https:\/\/durkota.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/IMG_20160703_171230716_HDR-676x999.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Random musings about Sin City:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I\u2019ve decided that IPA actually stands for India Potent Alcohol and not India Pale Ale (as they claim).<\/li>\n<li>I watched a girl at the pool take selfies for over an hour straight. It was sad.<\/li>\n<li>I met a guy named Crash from Tennessee. He will definitely become a character in a story.<\/li>\n<li>A waitress at the Hard Rock Casino saw me drinking water instead of my beer. She said, \u201cYou\u2019re doing it wrong.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Best quote of the weekend came from a bartender at Sin City Brewing Company. During a discussion about a young couple expecting their first child and planning a wedding while living at his parent\u2019s house she stated, \u201cLife is going to bitch-slap them.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Everyone is nice. The bartenders, the waiters, the cab drivers, the dealers. Almost all of them are genuinely friendly and happy people.<\/li>\n<li>I can&#8217;t wait to go back.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=durk13\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spent four days in Vegas over the holiday weekend. Traversed 33.3 miles of casinos and bars and flashing lights. The average temperature was 101 degrees. I didn\u2019t read nearly as much as I planned, so my reviews of \u201cNew Hope\u201d by Steve Hobbs and \u201cThe Bull\u201d by Erica Crockett will be delayed. Although, I can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}