{"id":15991,"date":"1987-07-01T04:32:34","date_gmt":"1987-07-01T04:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/?p=15991"},"modified":"2019-01-27T05:22:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T05:22:40","slug":"the-ultimate-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/1987\/07\/01\/the-ultimate-empire\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ultimate Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Harrah is unapologetic about his life, \u201cI work hard and I play hard.\u201d\u00a0 Turing his $800,000 profit on a spec home into a company that employs nearly 680 people in four states, Harrah has earned every right to play. Speed boat racing brought Mike Harrah to Lake Havasu, where he now owns the London Bridge and English Village attractions and built the Queens Bay Hotel, a country club, golf course, and shopping mall to complement it. Harrah is also developing resorts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.\u00a0 At 36, Harrah considers himself far from retiring and is a self-proclaimed \u201cworkaholic.\u201d Harrah says, \u201cI\u2019m not a dreamer, but I want to see all this work last, for myself, and most importantly, for everyone on the Harrah team, forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"jce_file\" title=\"Read More in the July 1987 Business to Business Magazine\" href=\"http:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/images\/stories\/Magazine\/BBOnly%20.pdf\">Read More in the July 1987 Business to Business Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Harrah is unapologetic about his life, \u201cI work hard and I play hard.\u201d\u00a0 Turing his $800,000 profit on a spec home into a company that employs nearly 680 people in four states, Harrah has earned every right to play. Speed boat racing brought Mike Harrah to Lake Havasu, where he now owns the London Bridge and English Village attractions and built the Queens Bay Hotel, a country club, golf course, and shopping mall to complement it. Harrah is also developing resorts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.\u00a0 At 36, Harrah considers himself far from retiring and is a self-proclaimed \u201cworkaholic.\u201d Harrah says, \u201cI\u2019m not a dreamer, but I want to see all this work last, for myself, and most importantly, for everyone on the Harrah team, forever.\u201d Read More in the July 1987 Business to Business Magazine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15993,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15991\/revisions\/15993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelfharrah.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}