{"id":179023,"date":"2018-06-13T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T00:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/13\/there-is-a-joke-here-but-i-need-help-to-find-it\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T19:14:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T00:14:00","slug":"there-is-a-joke-here-but-i-need-help-to-find-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/06\/13\/there-is-a-joke-here-but-i-need-help-to-find-it\/","title":{"rendered":"There Is a Joke Here, but I Need Help to Find It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In Nevada, <a href=\"https:\/\/lasvegassun.com\/news\/2018\/jun\/13\/dennis-hof-nevadas-most-famous-pimp-wins-gop-prima\/\">the owner of a string of brothels won a race for state house<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Pimp Dennis Hof, the owner of half a dozen legal brothels in Nevada and star of the HBO adult reality series &#8220;Cathouse,&#8221; won a Republican primary for the state Legislature on Tuesday, ousting a three-term lawmaker. <\/p>\n<p>Hof defeated hospital executive James Oscarson. He&#8217;ll face Democrat Lesia Romanov in November and will be the favored candidate in the Republican-leaning Assembly district. <\/p>\n<p>Hof celebrated his win at a party in Pahrump with Hollywood Madam Heidi Fleiss at his side. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s all because Donald Trump was the Christopher Columbus for me,&#8221; Hof told the Associated Press in a phone call. &#8220;He found the way and I jumped on it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Hof, who wrote a book titled &#8220;The Art of the Pimp,&#8221; has dubbed himself &#8220;The Trump of Pahrump,&#8221; and held a rally with longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone. Hof was in the limelight in 2015, when former NBA player Lamar Odom was found unconscious at Hof&#8217;s Love Ranch brothel in Crystal after a four-day, $75,000 stay.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously:&nbsp; I see that there is a joke here, but the actual gag (pun intended) escapes me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Nevada, the owner of a string of brothels won a race for state house: Pimp Dennis Hof, the owner of half a dozen legal brothels in Nevada and star of the HBO adult reality series &#8220;Cathouse,&#8221; won a Republican primary for the state Legislature on Tuesday, ousting a three-term lawmaker. Hof defeated hospital executive &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[375,374,448,421],"class_list":["post-179023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-elections","tag-politics","tag-sex","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}