{"id":51,"date":"2004-02-09T19:43:52","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T19:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=50"},"modified":"2004-02-09T19:43:52","modified_gmt":"2004-02-09T19:43:52","slug":"a-mini-jackpot-in-vega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"A MINI Jackpot in Vega$"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least 100 MINIs hit the Stardust Hotel for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aminivacationinvegas.com\/\">MINI Vacation in Vegas<\/a> last weekend. A special roped off area of the car park was designated MINI only and it was quite the sight seeing so many MINIs already there when I arrived. Events over the weekend included a delicious buffet at the Aladdin Hotel, scenic runs to nearby state parks and a late night cruise up the famous Strip. There is something very cool about being amongst a group of MINIs racing up the freeway or racing up the ramps in a hotel car park (!).<\/p>\n<p>Lots of people were taking pictures, including myself, and I will post links to some of them when I find them. I am sure <a href=\"http:\/\/blu-iguana.us\/\">Juan<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/dbmini.us\/\">Don<\/a> will have some good ones to look at. But in the meantime you can check my pictures out <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.guapacha.com\/MINIVacationVegas2004\/\">right here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other than driving and eating I did a little gambling on the slot machines and to my delight won almost $500, including a $400 jackpot on one machine, whilst only spending about $50. Not a bad little earner, I think.<\/p>\n<p>More thoughts and reflections on the whole thing over the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 100 MINIs hit the Stardust Hotel for the MINI Vacation in Vegas last weekend. A special roped off area of the car park was designated MINI only and it was quite the sight seeing so many MINIs already there when I arrived. Events over the weekend included a delicious buffet at the Aladdin &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/?p=51\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A MINI Jackpot in Vega$&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/miniblog.guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}