{"id":840,"date":"2009-03-17T17:31:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T09:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/?p=840"},"modified":"2009-03-17T17:34:51","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T09:34:51","slug":"tab-trading-on-good-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/17\/tab-trading-on-good-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"TAB trading on Good Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2009\/03\/17\/2517955.htm\">this ABC News article<\/a> on &#8220;outrage&#8221; over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tab.com.au\">TAB<\/a> trading on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Good_Friday\">Good Friday<\/a>. I&#8217;m flabberghasted that anyone could even attempt to dignify this outrage.<\/p>\n<p>In a modern multi-cultural society, no reasonable person can assert that the entire country must observe a certain religious practice. (In this case, no gambling or drinking on Good Friday.)<\/p>\n<p>There is absolutely nothing stopping devout Christians from <i>not<\/i> going to the TAB on Friday. Why should everyone else be forbade from spending their time however they see fit? The entire notion is preposterous and discriminatory. Bah!<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update<\/strong>: A number of years ago I was at a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbcentre.com.au\/\">Pot Black<\/a> when the police arrived to shut the place down. It turns out that they had a liquor license and (although they were not serving liquor) they could not operate on Good Friday. The police waited until everyone left. That&#8217;s nuts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read this ABC News article on &#8220;outrage&#8221; over the TAB trading on Good Friday. I&#8217;m flabberghasted that anyone could even attempt to dignify this outrage. In a modern multi-cultural society, no reasonable person can assert that the entire country must observe a certain religious practice. (In this case, no gambling or drinking on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2009\/03\/17\/tab-trading-on-good-friday\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TAB trading on Good Friday&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-dy","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":844,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions\/844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}