{"id":113,"date":"2009-02-12T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-12T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blogs\/dmckee\/index.cfm\/2009\/2\/12\/Bally-does-something-really-cool"},"modified":"2009-02-12T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T19:02:00","slug":"bally-does-something-really-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/bally-does-something-really-cool\/","title":{"rendered":"Bally does something really cool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While I&apos;m not much of one for flagging press releases, <a href=\"http:\/\/biz.yahoo.com\/bw\/090211\/20090211006480.html?.v=1\">here&apos;s one<\/a> that&apos;s much too noteworthy not to mention. <strong>Bally Technologies<\/strong> is making a dollar-for-dollar match of employee contributions to the <strong>Nevada Cancer Institute<\/strong>. In return, Bally staffers get early detection and cancer-prevention assistance from NVCI.<\/p>\n<p>Philanthropy has been taking it on the chin during the recession, which makes Bally&apos;s initiative doubly important. On a personal note, having had a loved one go through breast cancer (including multiple surgeries), I cannot stress heavily enough the importance of early vigilance, nor that of having a good support system in place if you&apos;re unfortunate enough to be a cancer sufferer.<\/p>\n<p>Bravo, Bally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&apos;m not much of one for flagging press releases, here&apos;s one that&apos;s much too noteworthy not to mention. Bally Technologies is making a dollar-for-dollar match of employee contributions to the Nevada Cancer Institute. In return, Bally staffers get early &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/bally-does-something-really-cool\/\">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":[77,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113"}],"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=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}