{"id":133,"date":"2008-04-29T12:29:28","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T16:29:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2008\/04\/29\/drop-those-chips-and-put-up-your-hands\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T12:29:28","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T16:29:28","slug":"drop-those-chips-and-put-up-your-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/drop-those-chips-and-put-up-your-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop Those Chips and Put Up Your Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina police staged a military style raid to protect the pubic from\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.a poker game.<\/p>\n<p>After wasting taxpayers&#8217; money with a ten month investigation, they <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokernews.com\/news\/2008\/04\/south-carolina-poker-raid-nabs-deputy-prosecutor.htm\">burst into a home poker game<\/a> and arrested 27 people, including an assistant prosecutor.\u00c2\u00a0 They confiscated all the money they could find, including, according to one report, cash that people had in their purses and wallets.\u00c2\u00a0 Then they went after people who weren&#8217;t at the game, but had played on other occasions.<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t that make you feel safer?<\/p>\n<p>The police were enforcing a law from 1802 that prohibits laying any time of game, in your home, that uses dice or cards.\u00c2\u00a0 Better find a good hiding place for your Monopoly,\u00c2\u00a0 Sorry! and Cranium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Carolina police staged a military style raid to protect the pubic from\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.a poker game. After wasting taxpayers&#8217; money with a ten month investigation, they burst into a home poker game and arrested 27 people, including an assistant prosecutor.\u00c2\u00a0 They confiscated all the money they could find, including, according to one report, cash that people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,14,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}