{"id":11969,"date":"2009-12-01T22:24:08","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=11969"},"modified":"2010-08-03T12:15:15","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T10:15:15","slug":"gambling-is-an-old-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/01\/gambling-is-an-old-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling is an old problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A recent arrest in Cyprus proves that gambling is an old problem, as Cyprus Mail reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

FORTY TWO women aged between 75 and 85, including a 95-year-old from Limassol, were shocked on Sunday when police raided their card game and confiscated their \u20ac100 in betting money.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Also, I have to disagree with a woman quoted in the same article:<\/p>\n

The only thing police achieve by doing such raids is to ridicule women of a certain age<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not at all, no. \u00a0I think police only ridicule themselves, not the women of a certain age.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

A recent arrest in Cyprus proves that gambling is an old problem, as Cyprus Mail reports: FORTY TWO women aged between 75 and 85, including a 95-year-old from Limassol, were shocked on Sunday when police raided their card game and confiscated their \u20ac100 in betting money. Also, I have to disagree with a woman quoted … Continue reading Gambling is an old problem<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,22,109],"tags":[2250,1005],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-11969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-cyprus","category-limassol","tag-crime","tag-gambling"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":155806,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2023\/07\/19\/lavrion-corfu-sailing-day-0-cyprus-to-greece\/","url_meta":{"origin":11969,"position":0},"title":"Lavrion – Corfu sailing: Day 0 – Cyprus to Greece","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"July 19, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Today, is the start of the new adventure. 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