{"id":1546,"date":"2004-10-27T23:10:42","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T22:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/ijwp\/mt.php\/2004\/10\/27\/against_government_casino_plans"},"modified":"2004-10-27T23:10:42","modified_gmt":"2004-10-27T22:10:42","slug":"against_government_casino_plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/mt.php\/2004\/10\/27\/against_government_casino_plans","title":{"rendered":"Against government casino plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you in the UK may be aware of government plans to reform the gambling laws, and among the plans include plans for so-called &#8220;Las Vegas-style casinos&#8221;.  I&#8217;m sure all Muslims disapprove of plans for more casinos and gambling resorts, even if it&#8217;s accompanied by measures tightening up regulations on children and young people gambling.  There is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/g2\/story\/0,3604,1336868,00.html\">an article in today&#8217;s Guardian<\/a> by a croupier (i.e. casino worker) who explains the downside of the industry and why she&#8217;s desperate to get out: the abusive and frustrated customers and the indecent uniforms, among other things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you in the UK may be aware of government plans to reform the gambling laws, and among the plans include plans for so-called &#8220;Las Vegas-style casinos&#8221;. I&#8217;m sure all Muslims disapprove of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p17bgV-oW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blogistan.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}