{"id":2282,"date":"2010-05-02T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-02T18:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=2282"},"modified":"2010-05-02T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T18:14:00","slug":"betting-on-the-society-of-your-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2010\/05\/02\/betting-on-the-society-of-your-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"Betting on the society of your dreams."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/opalsson\/4121443098\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/4121443098_b7ba62ec29.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"4121443098_b7ba62ec29\" width=\"400\" height=\"335\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If it&#8217;s true that &#8220;the house always wins,&#8221; why do people keep playing? <\/p>\n<p>For sure, it&#8217;s a celebration of hope. It&#8217;s also an investment in the society of your dreams. The Paris Las Vegas. The Venetian. The Aria. The America. <\/p>\n<p>What is a state lottery but a roundabout investment in the society of our dreams?<\/p>\n<p>I was reminded of this in the opening credits for &#8220;In the Loop&#8221;. It&#8217;s not nearly as good as the TV series that inspired it, &#8220;The Thick of It,&#8221; but it was funded, in part, by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.national-lottery.co.uk\/player\/p\/goodcausesandwinners\/wherethemoneygoes.ftl\">UK&#8217;s national lottery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>photo via Flickr by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/opalsson\/4121443098\/\">o palsson<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If it&#8217;s true that &#8220;the house always wins,&#8221; why do people keep playing? For sure, it&#8217;s a celebration of hope. It&#8217;s also an investment in the society of your dreams. The Paris Las Vegas. The Venetian. The Aria. The America. What is a state lottery but a roundabout investment in the society of our dreams?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}