{"id":651,"date":"2014-03-14T00:01:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T00:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=651"},"modified":"2014-03-14T00:04:21","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T00:04:21","slug":"casino-in-the-central-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/?p=651","title":{"rendered":"Casino in the Central Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lemoore is the name of the town I&#8217;m in, sorta just SW of Fresno.  I enjoy seeing the valley, and this time I took a road that&#8217;s between CA99 and I-5 which was very quiet, through the almond orchards.<\/p>\n<p>Local billboards demanded that the draught ends now, while it&#8217;s obvious that the Sierras are missing a lot of snow for this time of year.  I have no idea why someone would think that billboards will make it snow.<\/p>\n<p>My thing is to spend $5 at the casino I park in, but this time I made $75.  I figure a noisy parking lot with no amenities of any kind is worth $5.  The casino is surprisingly large given it&#8217;s location in the middle of nowhere, and as an overnight place it&#8217;s just barely acceptable. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lemoore is the name of the town I&#8217;m in, sorta just SW of Fresno. I enjoy seeing the valley, and this time I took a road that&#8217;s between CA99 and I-5 which was very quiet, through the almond orchards. Local billboards demanded that the draught ends now, while it&#8217;s obvious that the Sierras are missing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martincassidy.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}