{"id":8155,"date":"2021-03-27T07:53:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T07:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/?p=8155"},"modified":"2021-04-01T07:01:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T07:01:12","slug":"cricket-star-targets-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/cricket-star-targets-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"Cricket star targets gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>A leading county cricketer is attempting to hit gambling companies for six \u2013 by seeking curbs to \u2018in your face\u2019 advertising.<br \/>\nHampshire all-rounder, Chris Wood, is spearheading attempts by the Professional Cricketers\u2019 Association \u2013 the sport\u2019s trade union \u2013 to reduce the opportunities broadcasters offer gambling firms to plug their online products, and warning young players in academies how easy it is to form a gambling addiction.<\/p>\n<p>With the new season starting on 8 April,&nbsp; the 30-year-old former gambler is warning that television advertising is leading more and more people into misery, as they become increasingly addicted.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I found it really hard in my first six months of recovery to try to escape my feelings and emotions around gambling when all these adverts were popping up in between a football match I was watching,\u2019 he revealed to the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>And he stressed that the competitive nature of sportsmen \u2013 what he calls \u2018a winning and losing mentality\u2019 \u2013 commonly crosses over i...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leading county cricketer is attempting to hit gambling companies for six \u2013 by seeking curbs to \u2018in your face\u2019 advertising. Hampshire all-rounder, Chris Wood, is spearheading attempts by the Professional Cricketers\u2019 Association \u2013 the sport\u2019s trade union \u2013 to reduce the opportunities broadcasters offer gambling firms to plug their online products, and warning young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":692,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23,1546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-content","category-portfolio","category-homepage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8172,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions\/8172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}