{"id":202991,"date":"2026-01-06T19:50:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=202991"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:50:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:50:14","slug":"episode-55-derek-stevens-explains-why-las-vegas-isnt-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=202991","title":{"rendered":"Episode 55: Derek Stevens explains why\u00a0Las Vegas isn\u2019t dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown Las Vegas legend\u00a0and\u00a0Circa Sports CEO Derek Stevens\u00a0joins\u00a0Brandt Iden\u00a0and\u00a0Brendan Bussmann\u00a0for a\u00a0World Series of Politics G2E special, diving into the future of\u00a0Las Vegas tourism,\u00a0sports betting, and the\u00a0gaming industry&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/igamingbusiness.com\/casino\/property-development\/world-series-politics-derek-stevens-circa-las-vegas\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downtown Las Vegas legend\u00a0and\u00a0Circa Sports CEO Derek Stevens\u00a0joins\u00a0Brandt Iden\u00a0and\u00a0Brendan Bussmann\u00a0for a\u00a0World Series of Politics G2E<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":202992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202991-episode-55-derek-stevens-explains-why-las-vegas-isnt-dead.jpg",2560,1280,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202991-episode-55-derek-stevens-explains-why-las-vegas-isnt-dead-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202991-episode-55-derek-stevens-explains-why-las-vegas-isnt-dead-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202991-episode-55-derek-stevens-explains-why-las-vegas-isnt-dead-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202991-episode-55-derek-stevens-explains-why-las-vegas-isnt-dead-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202991-episode-55-derek-stevens-explains-why-las-vegas-isnt-dead-1536x768.jpg",1536,768,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202991-episode-55-derek-stevens-explains-why-las-vegas-isnt-dead-2048x1024.jpg",2048,1024,true],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202991-episode-55-derek-stevens-explains-why-las-vegas-isnt-dead-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202991-episode-55-derek-stevens-explains-why-las-vegas-isnt-dead-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/202991-episode-55-derek-stevens-explains-why-las-vegas-isnt-dead-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/202992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}