{"id":36227,"date":"2025-03-17T16:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/john-oliver-on-us-sports-betting-it-shouldnt-be-this-easy-to-lose-this-much\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T16:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T16:16:14","slug":"john-oliver-on-us-sports-betting-it-shouldnt-be-this-easy-to-lose-this-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/john-oliver-on-us-sports-betting-it-shouldnt-be-this-easy-to-lose-this-much\/","title":{"rendered":"John Oliver on US sports betting: \u2018It shouldn\u2019t be this easy to lose this much\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Week Tonight host discussed how the US gambling industry has expanded and created a multitude of problems<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/john-oliver\">John Oliver<\/a> addressed the problems attached to the expanding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/sport-betting\">sports betting<\/a> industry, urging for changes to be made.<\/p>\n<p>The Last Week Tonight host spoke about how the process of \u201cpicking winners and losers\u201d has become such a huge business in the US with constant commercials surrounding Americans. \u201cYou\u2019re not crazy for thinking those ads are inescapable,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/2025\/mar\/17\/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-betting\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Last Week Tonight host discussed how the US gambling industry has expanded and created a multitude of problems John Oliver addressed the problems attached to the expanding sports betting industry, urging for changes to be made. The Last Week Tonight host spoke about how the process of \u201cpicking winners and losers\u201d has become such &#8230; <a title=\"John Oliver on US sports betting: \u2018It shouldn\u2019t be this easy to lose this much\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/17\/john-oliver-on-us-sports-betting-it-shouldnt-be-this-easy-to-lose-this-much\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about John Oliver on US sports betting: \u2018It shouldn\u2019t be this easy to lose this much\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}