{"id":98881100,"date":"2011-05-16T15:36:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/sahara-hotel-and-casino-on-las-vegas-strip-closes-its-doors-for-good\/"},"modified":"2018-10-22T10:59:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T14:59:37","slug":"sahara-hotel-and-casino-on-las-vegas-strip-closes-its-doors-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/sahara-hotel-and-casino-on-las-vegas-strip-closes-its-doors-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Sahara Hotel and Casino on Las Vegas Strip Closes its Doors for Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Sahara Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip closes its doors for good.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The official closing comes just two months after the casino\u2019s operators declared that keeping the aging structure open was no longer economically viable.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sixth hotel and casino to open on the Strip, the Sahara holds a special place in Sin City\u2019s history, once hosting the likes of Don Rickles, Johnny Carson, and the Rat Pack.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hotel\u2019s final guests check out around noon on Monday. About 1,000 jobs will be lost as a result of the closure.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/05\/16\/las-vegas-sahara-hotel-and-casino-closing-after-more-than-58-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the Sahara Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip closes its doors for good. &nbsp; The official closing comes just two months after the casino\u2019s operators declared that keeping the aging structure open was no longer economically viable. &nbsp; The sixth hotel and casino to open on the Strip, the Sahara holds a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98897881,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881100\/revisions\/98897881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}