{"id":101982,"date":"2019-07-16T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/07\/16\/government-likely-to-ban-16-and-17-year-olds-from-buying-scratchcards-and-could-raise-minimum-age-for-lottery-tickets-minister-announces\/"},"modified":"2019-07-16T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T12:26:00","slug":"government-likely-to-ban-16-and-17-year-olds-from-buying-scratchcards-and-could-raise-minimum-age-for-lottery-tickets-minister-announces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=101982","title":{"rendered":"Government likely to ban 16 and 17-year-olds from buying scratchcards and could raise minimum age for lottery tickets, minister announces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consultation launched on increasing minimum age for all National Lottery games from 16 to 18, but Mims Davies says her &#8216;initial view&#8217; is hike should apply to instant-win games only<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/politics\/lottery-age-buy-ticket-lotto-results-gambling-18-consultation-a9006801.html\" target=\"_blank\">Government likely to ban 16 and 17-year-olds from buying scratchcards and could raise minimum age for lottery tickets, minister announces<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consultation launched on increasing minimum age for all National Lottery games from 16 to 18, but Mims Davies says her &#8216;initial view&#8217; is hike should apply to instant-win games only Via: Government likely to ban 16 and 17-year-olds from buying scratchcards and could raise minimum age for lottery tickets, minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}