{"id":10646,"date":"2013-04-18T15:49:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T23:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=10646"},"modified":"2013-04-18T15:50:31","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T23:50:31","slug":"quote-of-the-day-467","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-467\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10647\" title=\"Freeman\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Freeman-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\u201cLike the travel industry, gaming is a complex industry.\u201d &#8212; <em>newly elected <strong>American Gaming Association<\/strong> President <strong>Geoff Freeman<\/strong>, making the understatement of the year. Only 38 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reviewjournal.com\/business\/casinos-gaming\/american-gaming-association-selects-new-president\" target=\"_blank\">and with 16 years in the travel industry already behind him<\/a>, Freeman (<\/em><em>pictured) is practically a babe in arms, especially when compared to politically savvy predecessor <strong>Frank J. Fahrenkopf<\/strong>. Interestingly, industry leaders looked away from <strong>Washington, D.C.<\/strong>, to find their new message-carrier, choosing someone whose relationships have been geared toward increasing foreign and domestic traffic. Nothing against Freeman but I&#8217;m going to miss the smooth and media-friendly Fahrenkopf.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLike the travel industry, gaming is a complex industry.\u201d &#8212; newly elected American Gaming Association President Geoff Freeman, making the understatement of the year. Only 38 and with 16 years in the travel industry already behind him, Freeman (pictured) is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/quote-of-the-day-467\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,53,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10649,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10646\/revisions\/10649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}