{"id":5789,"date":"2012-08-13T17:53:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T00:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/?p=5789"},"modified":"2012-08-13T17:53:32","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T00:53:32","slug":"vegas-was-a-bust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/vegas-was-a-bust\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegas was a bust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/LasVegas_Sign.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5794\" title=\"LasVegas_Sign\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/LasVegas_Sign-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/LasVegas_Sign-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/LasVegas_Sign.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Driving to Vegas in August\u2026 what was I thinking? It was 110 degrees! Going to hell doesn\u2019t scare me now. We went for three days and I guess I&#8217;m not a very good traveller. It took me more days to pack than we spent in Vegas. I had to bring sandwiches &amp; drinks for the road, 110 proof sunblock, my own sheets, my teapot, disinfectant wipes, hard boiled eggs, phone chargers, my skincare products&#8230; \u00a0I forgot my face scrub but that\u2019s okay \u2013 I just rubbed my face with the hotel washcloth. When we hit the casino, I couldn&#8217;t breathe. I said to Denis, &#8220;This must be a \u00a0smokers&#8217; convention.&#8221; Or else people who quit years ago were so stressed about losing money, they started smoking again. \u00a0I tried to have fun but it seems like I enjoyed Vegas more when I was younger. The clubs are all so loud. Where I enjoyed the music most on this trip, was in the elevator.<\/p>\n<p>They need more Cirque du Soleil shows in Vegas. Com&#8217;on! There&#8217;s too many! They\u2019re not even exciting any more. With titles like \u201cO\u201d and \u201cKA\u201d I should send them my idea: \u201cBLAH\u201d \u2013 acrobatics based on the history of how paint dries. Even my gambling was a bust.\u00a0I lost my twenty dollars at \u00a0blackjack in less than a minute. They should call it Whackjack: \u00a0as soon as \u00a0you start putting money on the table, they whack you with a big stick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving to Vegas in August\u2026 what was I thinking? It was 110 degrees! Going to hell doesn\u2019t scare me now. We went for three days and I guess I&#8217;m not a very good traveller. It took me more days to pack than we spent in Vegas. I had to bring sandwiches &amp; drinks for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dear-diary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5789"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5801,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5789\/revisions\/5801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jennyjones.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}