{"id":12213,"date":"2013-12-09T12:43:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=12213"},"modified":"2013-12-09T12:43:40","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:43:40","slug":"aga-goes-mtv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/aga-goes-mtv\/","title":{"rendered":"AGA goes MTV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"253\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"https:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jXtpmYwp5eg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"450\" height=\"253\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/jXtpmYwp5eg?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Further distinguishing his presidency as a 21st century one, <strong>American Gaming Association<\/strong> President <strong>Geoff Freeman<\/strong> is taking his case to social media. &#8220;<em>There\u2019s no way to sugarcoat it<\/em>,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;<em>Some people view our industry as a necessary evil rather than a mainstream entertainment business &#8230;\u00a0local leaders often view us merely as a source of revenue instead of a partner and catalyst for growth<\/em>.&#8221; The filmlet above is described by Freeman as the &#8220;opening salvo&#8221; in the reinvention of the AGA as &#8220;<em>an aggressive and unabashed champion of our industry<\/em>.&#8221; In other words, it&#8217;s Freeman&#8217;s AGA now and he&#8217;ll be doing things differently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further distinguishing his presidency as a 21st century one, American Gaming Association President Geoff Freeman is taking his case to social media. &#8220;There\u2019s no way to sugarcoat it,&#8221; he writes. &#8220;Some people view our industry as a necessary evil rather &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/aga-goes-mtv\/\">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":[28,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213"}],"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=12213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12214,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12213\/revisions\/12214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}