{"id":1727,"date":"2009-12-31T09:26:29","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/?p=1727"},"modified":"2009-12-31T09:26:29","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T17:26:29","slug":"party-pooper-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/party-pooper-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Party Pooper of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that 2009 can&#8217;t slink quietly away without one more <strong>Bible Belt<\/strong> prude attempting to rain on gamblers&#8217; parade. The spoilsport in question is <strong>South Carolina<\/strong> Attorney General <strong>Henry McMaster<\/strong>, who is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wmbfnews.com\/Global\/story.asp?S=11751771\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\">appealing a ruling<\/a> that poker is more a game of skill than chance. If Mr. McMaster were to watch even modest amount of televised poker, the need for skill would be obvious. Seems that <strong>Palmetto State<\/strong> solons have decreed gambling to be Evil and that applies &#8212; if Mr. McMaster gets his way, to a friendly game of poker at your dining room table. From trying to dictate what card games we can play at home to subjecting airplane passengers to degrading X-ray scans, governmental intrusion in the name of our &#8220;best interests&#8221; has gone way too far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that 2009 can&#8217;t slink quietly away without one more Bible Belt prude attempting to rain on gamblers&#8217; parade. The spoilsport in question is South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster, who is appealing a ruling that poker is more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/party-pooper-of-the-year\/\">Continue reading <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":[],"categories":[133,33,25,130],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1728,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions\/1728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/stiffs-and-georges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}