{"id":71284,"date":"2018-05-18T16:11:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T20:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71284"},"modified":"2018-05-18T17:31:42","modified_gmt":"2018-05-18T21:31:42","slug":"fixed-odds-betting-terminals-2-maximum-stake-is-right-decision-says-bishop-alan-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71284","title":{"rendered":"(C of E) Fixed Odds Betting Terminals: \u00a32 maximum stake is \u2018right decision\u2019, says Bishop Alan Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--introduction paragraph--view-mode--default\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"container-inner\">The Bishop of St Albans, Alan Smith, has welcomed Government plans to limit the maximum stake on Fixed-Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) to \u00a32.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph paragraph--type--text paragraph--view-mode--default\">\n<div class=\"container\">\n<div class=\"container-inner\">\n<p>Dr Alan Smith said the decision was an &#8220;essential&#8221; step in curbing the harm done by the machines, which he said have \u201ctaken advantage of the vulnerable for too long\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked ministers for their action, announced today as part of a package of measures in response to a Government consultation.<\/p>\n<p>Bishop Alan\u00a0had previously written to all members of the Church of England\u2019s\u00a0General Synod, encouraging them to respond to the\u00a0<a class=\"u-mouseBlur\" href=\"https:\/\/emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchurchofengland.us2.list-manage.com%2Ftrack%2Fclick%3Fu%3D50eac70851c7245ce1ce00c45%26id%3D6146b625a0%26e%3De9770efa45&amp;data=01%7C01%7Cben.hollebon%40churchofengland.org%7C3a9127582b3148e3a8ff08d5bbbe953a%7C95e2463b3ab047b49ac1587c77ee84f0%7C0&amp;sdata=v9SnsVaDP6daDaeHzkcFWd6e1jtXqALEEMQ0xIRK8z8%3D&amp;reserved=0\">consultation<\/a>\u00a0with evidence of the consequences of these machines for their communities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/more\/media-centre\/news\/fixed-odds-betting-terminals-ps2-maximum-stake-right-decision-says-bishop\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of St Albans, Alan Smith, has welcomed Government plans to limit the maximum stake on Fixed-Odds Betting Terminals (FOBTs) to \u00a32. Dr Alan Smith said the decision was an &#8220;essential&#8221; step in curbing the harm done by the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=71284\">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":[175,389,635,199,168,87,91,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-gambling","category-personal-finance-investing","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71284","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=71284"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71286,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71284\/revisions\/71286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}