{"id":2005,"date":"2009-10-26T04:02:42","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T09:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2005"},"modified":"2009-10-26T04:02:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-26T09:02:42","slug":"idea-for-the-daya-casino-for-conservation-guilty-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/idea-for-the-daya-casino-for-conservation-guilty-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Idea For The Day::A Casino for Conservation? : Guilty Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d gladly play in a casino like this!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A Casino for Conservation?<br \/>\nCategory: Solutions<br \/>\nPosted on: October 25, 2009 3:14 PM, by Jennifer L. Jacquet<br \/>\nWhat if you could gamble for a good cause? Why not build a casino where the profits go to conservation?<br \/>\nThe idea came to me last night while watching a BBC documentary on gambling with Louis Theroux (see preview below). The segment features a woman who has lost $4 million over the last 7 years (don&#8217;t worry, she says she had fun doing it) and a Canadian mattress man who lost somewhere over $250,000 in one weekend. <strong>Imagine if these people could lose their money and know that it ultimately wound up going toward a good cause rather than in the pockets of already rich casino owners?<\/strong><br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/guiltyplanet\/2009\/10\/a_casino_for_conservation.php?utm_source=selectfeed&amp;utm_medium=rss\">A Casino for Conservation? : Guilty Planet<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d gladly play in a casino like this! A Casino for Conservation? Category: Solutions Posted on: October 25, 2009 3:14 PM, by Jennifer L. Jacquet What if you could gamble for a good cause? Why not build a casino where the profits go to conservation? The idea came to me last night while watching a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/10\/26\/idea-for-the-daya-casino-for-conservation-guilty-planet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Idea For The Day::A Casino for Conservation? : Guilty Planet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}