{"id":9935,"date":"2012-02-16T12:37:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T12:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/16\/state-run-casinos\/"},"modified":"2012-02-16T12:37:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T12:37:26","slug":"state-run-casinos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/16\/state-run-casinos\/","title":{"rendered":"State-Run Casinos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">If state-run lotteries are a bad idea, <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2009\/06\/good-societies-and-good-lives-on-staterun-lotteries.html\" target=\"_self\">as I have argued<\/a>, then state-run casinos are even worse.&#0160; But they are <a href=\"http:\/\/fox4kc.com\/2012\/01\/30\/hollywood-casino-at-kansas-speedway-set-to-open\/\" target=\"_self\">starting to pop up<\/a>.&#0160; Moral rot is at the root&#0160;of all other rot.&#0160; Overextended abroad, collapsing within, how long can we last?&#0160; Bread and circuses are the people&#39;s pablum supplied by a government whose power and reach are its main concerns, not the common weal.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If state-run lotteries are a bad idea, as I have argued, then state-run casinos are even worse.&#0160; But they are starting to pop up.&#0160; Moral rot is at the root&#0160;of all other rot.&#0160; Overextended abroad, collapsing within, how long can we last?&#0160; Bread and circuses are the people&#39;s pablum supplied by a government whose power &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/02\/16\/state-run-casinos\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;State-Run Casinos&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-money-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}