{"id":88626,"date":"2020-01-15T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88626"},"modified":"2020-01-15T05:34:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-15T10:34:52","slug":"c-of-e-bishop-alan-smith-welcomes-the-credit-card-gambling-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88626","title":{"rendered":"(C of E) Bishop Alan Smith welcomes the credit card gambling ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of St Albans, Dr Alan Smith, has welcomed an announcement from the Gambling Commission that consumers will no longer be able to use credit cards to gamble from April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis marks a significant step in progressive policy-making, reducing the risks to gamblers,&#8221; he said, following the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk\/news-action-and-statistics\/news\/2020\/Gambling-on-credit-cards-to-be-banned-from-April-2020.aspx\">announcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor too long people have been vulnerable through gambling with money they don\u2019t have, using credit cards, additionally incurring the costs of borrowing alongside any losses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been calling for this change as consultation turned into consultation, while gamblers were facing the consequences of delay.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swbts.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/content\/docs\/journal\/61_2\/61.2_The_Retransmission_of_Evangelical_Christianity_in_Nigeria_Fatusi.pdf\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bishop of St Albans, Dr Alan Smith, has welcomed an announcement from the Gambling Commission that consumers will no longer be able to use credit cards to gamble from April 2020. \u201cThis marks a significant step in progressive policy-making,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=88626\">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":[389,635,589,168,87,91,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-corporationscorporate-life","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\/88626","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=88626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88628,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88626\/revisions\/88628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}