{"id":649,"date":"2008-04-03T16:46:42","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T00:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/archives\/simon-says\/gambling"},"modified":"2008-04-03T16:46:42","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T00:46:42","slug":"gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Where did people gamble before there were Indian Casinos and State Lotteries?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/photos\/photo\/2385716829\/Gatewayphotos-2-4-04-164jpg.html\" class=\"tt-flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2047\/2385716829_1f783c4a8b_m.jpg?resize=240%2C180\" alt=\"Gatewayphotos 2 4-04 164.jpg\" border=\"0\" height=\"180\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Has the amount of gambling increased? Is that a good thing?\u00a0 As a libertarian it is a bit of a quandry.\u00a0 One the one hand we want to let people make their own choices.\u00a0 On the other gambling makes paupers of the most gullible.\u00a0 Maybe the level of gambling hasn&#8217;t increased.<\/p>\n<p>Here is another question for you to ponder.\u00a0 How many of the people who can&#8217;t afford health insurance do buy a lottery ticket?\u00a0 Maybe it is a choice they make?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where did people gamble before there were Indian Casinos and State Lotteries? Has the amount of gambling increased? Is that a good thing?\u00a0 As a libertarian it is a bit of a quandry.\u00a0 One the one hand we want to let people make their own choices.\u00a0 On the other gambling makes paupers of the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s99jGb-gambling","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}