{"id":12123,"date":"2009-04-06T17:34:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T17:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/father_john_flynn_on_zenit_gambling_excesses\/"},"modified":"2009-04-06T17:34:09","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T17:34:09","slug":"father_john_flynn_on_zenit_gambling_excesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12123","title":{"rendered":"Father John Flynn on Zenit: Gambling Excesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Avarice and materialism have come in for strong criticism in the wake of the current economic crisis. Nevertheless, the effects of living in a de-Christianized society continue to make themselves felt.<\/p>\n<p>Right in the middle of Lent, a big gambling company in Australia, Tabcorp, announced that they would be allowing betting on Good Friday in the country&#8217;s two most populous states, Victoria and New South Wales.<\/p>\n<p>According to a March 17 article in the Melbourne-based newspaper, the Herald Sun, Tabcorp managing director Robert Nason said that the move is part of a push to allow race meetings in Australia on Good Friday.<\/p>\n<p>While punters will not be able to bet on any local races this year, Tabcorp&#8217;s opening will allow them to wager on overseas events.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-25575?l=english\" title=\"http:\/\/www.zenit.org\/article-25575?l=english\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avarice and materialism have come in for strong criticism in the wake of the current economic crisis. Nevertheless, the effects of living in a de-Christianized society continue to make themselves felt. Right in the middle of Lent, a big gambling<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12123\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,87,154,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-gambling","category-other-churches","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}