{"id":41,"date":"2006-10-02T20:00:44","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T03:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=41"},"modified":"2006-10-02T20:00:44","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T03:00:44","slug":"ace-in-the-holes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Ace in the holes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, those who don&#8217;t occasionally write for a poker magazine may not be aware of it, but a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/BUSINESS\/10\/02\/uk.betting.reut\/index.html\">bill passed<\/a> this week (as a rider to another bill altogether) that basically makes it illegal to play poker for money online. I&#8217;m not surprised. I&#8217;m just disappointed. This just in: government is teh stupid.<\/p>\n<p>I know this is going to sound like more liberal California claptrap, but hey, geniuses in Washington: What if you embraced and taxed the shit out of it? Do you think that might pay for some of the huge national debt, or even offset a fraction of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/nationalpriorities.org\/index.php?option=com_wrapper&#038;Itemid=182\">staggering costs<\/a> of this extended vacation in Iraq? Or are you actually going to tell me that low-stakes online gambling ruins the moral fiber of the country that installs puppet dictators worldwide?<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t play online that much or for any notable stakes&#8211;I&#8217;ve actually won more in friendly live games and local card rooms, and even the sum total of all that activity wouldn&#8217;t buy a decent guitar&#8211;but this is just dumb. And yes, this probably spells doom for my freelance outlet. So I guess I do have something invested in poker&#8217;s popularity!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, those who don&#8217;t occasionally write for a poker magazine may not be aware of it, but a bill passed this week (as a rider to another bill altogether) that basically makes it illegal to play poker for money online. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=41\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}