{"id":33573,"date":"2026-02-11T13:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33573"},"modified":"2026-02-11T13:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:22:12","slug":"i-knew-this-would-happen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33573","title":{"rendered":"I knew this would happen&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Well&#8230;with gambling sites exploding in number every day and every damn commercial on the Olympics for one of them, my fear was there would be a cost with the proliferation as it makes it easier to strip the rubes of their money&#8230;I&#8217;m not a gambler so these ads are just annoying to me and as I have no desire to gamble away my money&#8230;but that&#8217;s not true for a lot of folks&#8230;and the numbers show how damaging this easy gambling is to some people&#8230;a Dutch study was just released that shows that in states that allow this online gambling have seen a rise in personal bankruptcies of 34% since the sites came online&#8230;and this goes with the rise in house foreclosures of about the same percent&#8230;and the owners of these sites have figured out a neat little transfer of wealth scheme that makes the rich richer and everyone else poorer&#8230;.so don&#8217;t gamble on these damn sites&#8230;it is rigged so you can never win&#8230;geez&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;with gambling sites exploding in number every day and every damn commercial on the Olympics for one of them, my fear was there would be a cost with the proliferation as it makes it easier to strip the rubes of their money&#8230;I&#8217;m not a gambler so these ads are just annoying to me and as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=33573\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I knew this would happen&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4449,4448],"class_list":["post-33573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-increased-bankruptcies","tag-online-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33573"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33574,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33573\/revisions\/33574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}