{"id":2101,"date":"2015-07-28T02:56:33","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.writingsinrhyme.com\/?p=2101"},"modified":"2015-07-28T02:58:42","modified_gmt":"2015-07-28T02:58:42","slug":"gambling-is-a-losing-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/gambling-is-a-losing-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambling Is A Losing Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love is a losing game<\/strong><\/em>.
\n~ Amy Winehouse<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Gambling<\/a>
Gambling is often seen as a sin. But life, love and all in between is a gamble, and as a child, my favourite plaything was a deck of cards…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

God and the Devil opened casinos
\nTo see who would win
\nGod promised honest dealing
\nThe devil tempted with music and sin<\/p>\n

God promised value and fairplay
\nThe customer could keep the jackpot they won
\nThe devil promised massive odds and wild promises
\nThe devil seemed to be much more fun.<\/p>\n

Gods casino was strangely empty
\nNo one was there to be dealt the cards he wished to deal
\nThe card tables were busy at the devils place
\nAt Russian roulette the bullets were real…<\/p>\n

Things got so bad God thought about spicing things up
\nA casino owner to stay open has to win
\nBut realised that he is God
\nIs not meant to encourage sin.<\/p>\n

Leave the gamblers to the devil and his casinos
\nThe fact the casino failed is not Gods shame
\nHe is no shyster, not even a businessman
\nGambling is a losing game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Love is a losing game. ~ Amy Winehouse God and the Devil opened casinos To see who would win God promised honest dealing The devil tempted with music and sin God promised value and fairplay The customer could keep the jackpot they won The devil promised massive odds and wild …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[2270,2276,2275,2071,65,2273,2277,2271,2278,2274,2272],"class_list":["post-2101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-moral","tag-cards","tag-cards-of-life","tag-deal-the-cards","tag-gamble","tag-life-2","tag-lose","tag-playing-cards","tag-roll-the-dice","tag-sin","tag-try-again","tag-win","column","twocol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7EI4f-xT","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":557,"url":"https:\/\/writingsinrhyme.com\/index.php\/the-devil-quoting-scripture\/","url_meta":{"origin":2101,"position":0},"title":"The Devil Quoting Scripture","author":"Tom\u00e1s \u00d3 C\u00e1rthaigh","date":"15th May 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a little poem I wrote condemning all the self righteous craw thumping anti-immigrant anti-socialist so called Catholics and Protestant who run to church on Sunday, and spend the rest of the week sinning. 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