{"id":199632,"date":"2007-07-09T22:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/09\/the-case-of-the-albert-gores-and-the-unlucky-booky\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T22:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T03:12:00","slug":"the-case-of-the-albert-gores-and-the-unlucky-booky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/07\/09\/the-case-of-the-albert-gores-and-the-unlucky-booky\/","title":{"rendered":"The Case of the Albert Gores, and the Unlucky Booky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what I can only describe as a case of a someone being hoist on their own petard, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2007\/07\/08\/gore_drugs_paddypoker\/\">an Irish book maker, paddypower.com has had to pay off on Albert Gore III&#8217;s DWI arrest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They had to pay out $13,600 on 14-1 odds on the oddball bet that Al Gore would be the next celebrity arrested.<\/p>\n<p>Former vice president, Albert Gore, Jr. has not been arrested, but his son, Albert Gore III was recently.<\/p>\n<p>You play with the bull, you get the horns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what I can only describe as a case of a someone being hoist on their own petard, an Irish book maker, paddypower.com has had to pay off on Albert Gore III&#8217;s DWI arrest. They had to pay out $13,600 on 14-1 odds on the oddball bet that Al Gore would be the next celebrity &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}