{"id":265,"date":"2004-12-01T14:09:43","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T21:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bren.pintglass.org\/archives\/2004\/12\/01\/leaving-las-vegas\/"},"modified":"2004-12-01T14:09:43","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T21:09:43","slug":"leaving-las-vegas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/leaving-las-vegas\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stuck in Vegas all week.  Yuck.  I don&#8217;t like Vegas.  Too plastic, too shiny.  Too many sad people, too many broken people, too many people trying to fill a hole that can&#8217;t be filled with money, sex, food, power, whatever.  Too many lost and wandering souls in Vegas, staring slackjawed at the blinking lights.<\/p>\n<p>The only redeeming quality of Vegas is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supertopo.com\/climbingareas\/redrocks.html\">Red Rocks<\/a>.  And I won&#8217;t be able to make it out there on this trip.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I did have a very nice $50 steak dinner last night, so why am I complaining?  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m stuck in Vegas all week. Yuck. I don&#8217;t like Vegas. Too plastic, too shiny. Too many sad people, too many broken people, too many people trying to fill a hole that can&#8217;t be filled with money, sex, food, power, whatever. Too many lost and wandering souls in Vegas, staring slackjawed at the blinking lights. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ckgU-4h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brendonconnelly.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}