{"id":75427,"date":"2019-01-12T01:01:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T00:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/12\/gambling-on-credit-cards-could-be-banned-in-overhaul-of-betting\/"},"modified":"2019-01-12T01:01:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-12T00:01:30","slug":"gambling-on-credit-cards-could-be-banned-in-overhaul-of-betting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=75427","title":{"rendered":"Gambling on credit cards could be banned in overhaul of betting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industry watchdog to call for evidence on move that would affect billions of pounds of bets a year The government is considering banning the use of credit cards in gambling \u2013 a move that would affect billions of pounds worth of bets a year.The culture secretary, Jeremy Wright, said he would haul bookmakers and major retail banks into meetings to discuss concerns that up to 20% of deposits with some gambling firms are made using money that consumers do not actually have. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/jan\/12\/gambling-on-credit-cards-could-be-banned-in-overhaul-of-betting\" target=\"_blank\">Gambling on credit cards could be banned in overhaul of betting<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry watchdog to call for evidence on move that would affect billions of pounds of bets a year The government is considering banning the use of credit cards in gambling \u2013 a move that would affect billions of pounds worth of bets a year.The culture secretary, Jeremy Wright, said he [&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-75427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75427","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=75427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}