{"id":1163,"date":"2006-12-08T09:27:03","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T14:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/12\/08\/casinos-negative-impact-less-than-expected-critic\/"},"modified":"2006-12-08T09:27:03","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T14:27:03","slug":"casinos-negative-impact-less-than-expected-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/08\/casinos-negative-impact-less-than-expected-critic\/","title":{"rendered":"Casino&#8217;s negative impact less than expected: Critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?526\">Niagara Falls Review<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A casino will attract crime. It will promote the moral decay of a community desperate for jobs. It will turn casual players into addicts. A dozen years ago, Judith Mac-Carthy was certain all those things would happen if the province granted the city the right to open a glitzy new gaming centre in the heart of the tourist district. A decade after Casino Niagara opened its doors, MacCarthy says things might not be as bad as they seemed. &#8220;On the positive side, I know it has provided employment,&#8221; said MacCarthy, once the spokeswoman for the anti-casino group Try Another Way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Niagara Falls Review: A casino will attract crime. It will promote the moral decay of a community desperate for jobs. It will turn casual players into addicts. A dozen years ago, Judith Mac-Carthy was certain all those things would happen if the province granted the city the right to open a glitzy new&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}