{"id":75,"date":"2007-10-07T17:28:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T21:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/?p=75"},"modified":"2022-05-03T20:01:28","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T01:01:28","slug":"75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/07\/75\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gambler &#8211; hits the buffet&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The old MGM Grand casino in Detroit is no more&#8230; but in it&#8217;s place is a new permanent casino. We ventured into downtown Detroit on a Saturday night to see the sights.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-images\/fullsize\/MGM Casino 750px.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Playing poker, wild cherries, or ??... it doesn't matter as long as you have a chance to win!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-images\/thumbs\/MGM Casino tmb.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"242\" alt=\"The new MGM Grand Casino in downtown Detroit Michigan.\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe made it into the parking structure after sitting for some time in traffic, misguided directions by a policeman. . . &#8220;Hey there&#8217;s two lanes &#8211; use them both&#8221;. Well there are two lanes, but one went straight and NOT into the parking garage! So after a quick loop around the block we made it into the garage.<\/p>\n<p>A tour around the casino floor to check everything out, the Wolfgang Puck restaurant, Aqua, Ice and other restaurants we elected to&#8230; do the buffet!<\/p>\n<p>A few <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/GSlideShows\/MGM%20Detroit\/index.html\">pictures of the experience can be seen here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Until the final chip falls,<br \/>\nGeorge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new MGM Grand Casino in Detroit offers a lot of culinary choices, so which did we go with?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-75","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dining"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kasdorf.name\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}