{"id":1171,"date":"2012-11-11T08:02:18","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T15:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2012-11-11T10:55:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T17:55:01","slug":"thank-you-for-your-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/2012\/11\/thank-you-for-your-service\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Thank you for your Service!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettix.org\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1172\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1172\" title=\"VTF GrayLogo 0708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/VTF-GrayLogo-0708.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"120\" \/><\/a>One of the great honors of running an organization dedicated to &#8220;audience development&#8221; has been the privilege to meet and work in partnership with the dedicated leaders of the\u00a0<strong>Veteran Tickets Foundation<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; which is best known as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettix.org\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>VETTIX.org<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(And imagine my delight to discover that this national 501c3 non-profit organization is based here in my hometown of Phoenix &#8211; less than 3 miles from my office!)<\/p>\n<p>Their mission: \u00a0<em>&#8220;Give without prejudice &#8230;\u00a0By supporting\u00a0<strong>our Military, Veterans and their Families<\/strong>\u00a0with entertainment, lasting memories and reintegration opportunities by providing free tickets to sporting events, concerts and family activities.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of this Veterans Day, <strong>I wish to personally commend this organization to arts &amp; cultural organizations nationally<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; and wholeheartedly encourage you to support this cause with a donation of tickets\/admissions.<\/p>\n<p>Every ticket &#8211; and every experience you share &#8211; offers a meaningful and durable \u00a0&#8220;THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE&#8221; to the members of our armed forces, veterans and their families. \u00a0(And it advances your organization&#8217;s audience development objectives, too!)<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find complete information about\u00a0<strong>VETTIX<\/strong>\u00a0here: \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettix.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.VETTIX.org<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p># # #<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the great honors of running an organization dedicated to &#8220;audience development&#8221; has been the privilege to meet and work in partnership with the dedicated leaders of the\u00a0Veteran Tickets Foundation\u00a0&#8211; which is best known as\u00a0VETTIX.org. (And imagine my delight to discover that this national 501c3 non-profit organization is based here in my hometown of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,34,23,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-best-practices","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-mission","9":"category-strategy","10":"entry","11":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/audience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}