{"id":1138,"date":"2011-10-17T23:44:35","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T14:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2011-10-19T02:02:45","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T17:02:45","slug":"atm-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/17\/atm-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"ATM Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lh\/photo\/QJ56u3eQ1AqZaFv2nWXSxw?feat=embedwebsite\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-5h4ZY7edwZA\/Tp2fh4mz01I\/AAAAAAAAF0k\/1aB4fZ7n8cM\/s400\/SBSH0158.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>I took this picture at my bank while waiting in the lobby.<\/p>\n<p>This poster explains how the bank&#8217;s ATM lottery works. Instead of cash, you&#8217;re basically using the funds in your account to withdraw lottery tickets, which pop out of the same slot.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure if this would be illegal in the US (Can banks get a gambling license? There&#8217;s a scary thought.), but even if they could I can&#8217;t imagine a bank ever doing it because at best the gambling association would seem in especially bad taste after the recent financial sector turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>At worst, I could see people getting the idea that their money isn&#8217;t safe in a bank that likes to promote gambling.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t noticed the bank gambling away my money, though perhaps that&#8217;s why Japanese banks don&#8217;t pay interest on deposits. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took this picture at my bank while waiting in the lobby. This poster explains how the bank&#8217;s ATM lottery works. Instead of cash, you&#8217;re basically using the funds in your account to withdraw lottery tickets, which pop out of the same slot. I&#8217;m not sure if this would be illegal in the US (Can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,3],"tags":[164,161,321],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-japan","tag-atm","tag-bank","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1145,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davidhed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}