{"id":76647,"date":"2019-01-20T14:32:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T13:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/20\/buddhist-poker-player-to-give-his-600000-winnings-to-charity\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T14:32:43","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T13:32:43","slug":"buddhist-poker-player-to-give-his-600000-winnings-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=76647","title":{"rendered":"Buddhist poker player to give his $600,000 winnings to charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Wellenbach says he can only rationalise gambling by donating winnings to those in needA Buddhist poker player has said he will give away more than $600,000 of his winnings to charity.Scott Wellenbach\u2019s third place finish in the Bahamas scooped him $671,240 (\u00a3521,384), more than nine times his previous total. The Canadian player said the only way he could rationalise playing a game that could leave others in strife was to donate to those in need. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jan\/20\/buddhist-poker-player-scott-wellenbach-giving-usd600000-winnings-to-charity\" target=\"_blank\">Buddhist poker player to give his 0,000 winnings to charity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Wellenbach says he can only rationalise gambling by donating winnings to those in needA Buddhist poker player has said he will give away more than $600,000 of his winnings to charity.Scott Wellenbach\u2019s third place finish in the Bahamas scooped him $671,240 (\u00a3521,384), more than nine times his previous total. [&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-76647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76647","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=76647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}