{"id":2827,"date":"2025-10-20T06:06:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/?p=2827"},"modified":"2025-10-22T06:19:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:19:07","slug":"pawn-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/20\/pawn-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Pawn Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today Pawn Stars was on our list of things to do, we took a Taxi down to &#8216;downtown&#8217; Las Vegas is what they called it.  It was a bit off the strip and a totally different world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kind of dirty and run down, just like all of Vegas if you ask me, but still lots of tourists and the pawn shop itself was packed with people.  We looked around for a while, saw many many cool things, but man they are proud of their stuff &#8211; everything is marked very high and really I did not see anything I &#8216;had to have&#8217; so we walked out empty handed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We walked across the parking lot to a strip mall they own and had some very bland, unexciting Mexican food.  Again, Colorado Mexican food is the best I have had anywhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We jumped in a taxi and headed to Caesar&#8217;s Palace to do some shopping in the shops inside.  Look out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>WoW (Words of Wisdom): Day 59 \u2013 The 10-minute rule<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If a task feels overwhelming, commit to just 10 minutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Start the timer. Begin.<br>You\u2019ll either finish it or build momentum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Progress beats perfection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johnstown Technology \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnstowntechnology.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.johnstowntechnology.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Pawn Stars was on our list of things to do, we took a Taxi down to &#8216;downtown&#8217; Las Vegas is what they called it. It was a bit off the strip and a totally different world. Kind of dirty and run down, just like all of Vegas if you ask me, but still lots [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2828,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2830,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2827\/revisions\/2830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebrookers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}