{"id":1128,"date":"2011-02-22T09:51:51","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T17:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2011-03-15T09:55:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T17:55:04","slug":"new-jersey-may-change-gambling-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/new-jersey-may-change-gambling-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey May Change Gambling Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/online-gambling-strategies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1129\" title=\"online gambling\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/online-gambling-strategies-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/online-gambling-strategies-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/online-gambling-strategies-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/online-gambling-strategies-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/online-gambling-strategies-55x55.jpg 55w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>A poll issued Monday verified that those residing in New Jersey approved  of making sports betting legal, but not Internet gambling.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that the approval rate was at 62 percent with 801  people polled, for betting on sports such as basketball, football and  baseball.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Lesniak has been promoting a referendum for the state to offer  sports betting. He is claiming that jobs would be added to the state in  this field. The petition is opposed by Governor Christie, for reasons  that include the federal law prevents this type of betting outside of  Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Lesniak may remove a portion of the bill that would use  gambling funds to increase horse racing winnings. When responders to the  study were told that the state has already approved horse racing bets  their positioned changed in regards to internet gambling and most had  been unaware of the current betting policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poll issued Monday verified that those residing in New Jersey approved of making sports betting legal, but not Internet gambling. The study found that the approval rate was at 62 percent with 801 people&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[656,652,653,654,655],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured-news","tag-jersey-gambling","tag-new-jersey-gambling-law","tag-nj-gambling","tag-nj-horse-racing","tag-nj-internet-gambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1131,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}