{"id":19714,"date":"2017-05-03T04:22:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T20:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=19714"},"modified":"2017-05-03T04:22:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T20:22:45","slug":"gamble-responsibly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2017\/05\/gamble-responsibly\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamble Responsibly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19715 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gam.jpg?resize=1072%2C1440\" alt=\"\" width=\"1072\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gam.jpg?w=1072&amp;ssl=1 1072w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gam.jpg?resize=71%2C96&amp;ssl=1 71w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gam.jpg?resize=223%2C300&amp;ssl=1 223w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gam.jpg?resize=768%2C1032&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/gam.jpg?resize=762%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 762w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><br \/>\nWow! The irony of the idea, that there is such thing as &#8216;responsible gam[bl]ing&#8217; at any age, since some older gambling addicts gamble with even higher stakes, and more recklessly too. (Those below 18 have little money to lose anyway.) Amazing euphemism too, that &#8216;gambling&#8217; can be called &#8216;gaming&#8217; or &#8216;play&#8217;. To gamble is really to squander one&#8217;s hard earned blessings. Here are more Buddhist views on gambling to share: <a href=\"http:\/\/thedailyenlightenment.com\/2017\/03\/is-it-alright-for-buddhists-to-gamble\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener nofollow\">http:\/\/<wbr>thedailyenlightenment.com\/<\/wbr><wbr>2017\/03\/<\/wbr><wbr>is-it-alright-for-buddhists<\/wbr><wbr>-to-gamble<\/wbr><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow! The irony of the idea, that there is such thing as &#8216;responsible gam[bl]ing&#8217; at any age, since some older&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[443],"class_list":["post-19714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-blessings","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}