{"id":48596,"date":"2015-02-27T16:31:04","date_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_2_ltr_to_editor_id_defense_of_brining_gambling_to_south_carolin\/"},"modified":"2015-02-27T16:31:04","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T16:31:04","slug":"local_paper_2_ltr_to_editor_id_defense_of_brining_gambling_to_south_carolin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48596","title":{"rendered":"(Local Paper 2) Ltr to Editor id defense of brining gambling to South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As usual your editorial on casino gambling reflects the past and current thinking in South Carolina that we must never move into the 21st century. The attitude of our politicians to keep South Carolina as backward as they can is bad enough. But for The Post and Courier to espouse the same old argument that any form of gambling is going to target the poor and irresponsible is just thinking from the past.<\/p>\n<p>Are we to ignore the reality that if someone wants to gamble he will find a way, no matter the cost or any other obstacle? If you don\u2019t believe that, go to any convenience store and observe who is buying all of those lottery tickets.<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be something for visitors to Charleston to ride down I-26 through the neck area and see large casinos with hotels and theme park environments rather than the blighted area it now is?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/new.kendallharmon.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/www.postandcourier.com\/article\/20150227\/PC1002\/150229467\/1021\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As usual your editorial on casino gambling reflects the past and current thinking in South Carolina that we must never move into the 21st century. The attitude of our politicians to keep South Carolina as backward as they can is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=48596\">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":[39,40,54,168,87,151,88,619,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-south-carolina","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-gambling","category-politics-in-general","category-poverty","category-state-government","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48596","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=48596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}