{"id":5171,"date":"2026-08-14T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/how-pennsylvania-got-hooked-on-games-that-look-a-lot-like-slot-machines\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T09:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T09:00:08","slug":"how-pennsylvania-got-hooked-on-games-that-look-a-lot-like-slot-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/how-pennsylvania-got-hooked-on-games-that-look-a-lot-like-slot-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"How Pennsylvania Got Hooked on Games That Look a Lot Like Slot Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A legal loophole kept \u201cskill games\u201d from being considered gambling. Now lawmakers are trying to save them from a court ruling.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A legal loophole kept \u201cskill games\u201d from being considered gambling. Now lawmakers are trying to save them from a court&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mhtechin.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}