{"id":240,"date":"2018-01-19T14:33:19","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T14:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=240"},"modified":"2018-01-19T15:54:36","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T15:54:36","slug":"is-fantasy-football-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/01\/19\/is-fantasy-football-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Fantasy Football gambling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-233\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw011918-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-233\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw011918-3.jpg\" alt=\"Is Fantasy Football gambling?\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw011918-3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw011918-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/aw011918-3-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Is Fantasy Football gambling?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Unfortunately, there isn&#8217;t a yes or no answer to this question. It is a topic that is still under frequent discussion legally, ethically, and amongst academics who study gambling. The answer may also depend on the exact style of Fantasy Football you are referring to. To learn more about the current state of this question, check out the recent report from the Rutgers Center for Gambling Studies (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/RutgersReport\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/RutgersReport<\/a>) and the recent report of the Massachusetts Special Commission on Online Gaming, Fantasy Sports Gaming and Daily Fantasy Sports (<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/MAGamblingReport\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/MAGamblingReport<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unfortunately, there isn&#8217;t a yes or no answer to this question. It is a topic that is still under frequent discussion legally, ethically, and amongst academics who study gambling. The answer may also depend on the exact style of Fantasy Football you are referring to. To learn more about the current state of this question, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/01\/19\/is-fantasy-football-gambling\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is Fantasy Football gambling?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-questions","tag-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions\/243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}