{"id":120,"date":"2004-10-20T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-20T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=120"},"modified":"2007-03-03T08:46:45","modified_gmt":"2007-03-03T13:46:45","slug":"sucker-bet-by-james-swain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/20\/sucker-bet-by-james-swain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sucker Bet, by James Swain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=ericnehrlisho-20&#038;path=ASIN\/0345461754\/>Amazon link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve liked Swain&#8217;s <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2004\/05\/22\/#funny_money>previous books<\/a>, so when I saw this one in paperback at the used book store, I picked it up.  Not as entertaining as the previous entries in the series, partially because Swain doesn&#8217;t spend as much time explaining various casino swindles.  The centerpiece scam isn&#8217;t as interesting or intricate either.  Still an okay read.  Not much more to say than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon link I&#8217;ve liked Swain&#8217;s previous books, so when I saw this one in paperback at the used book store, I picked it up. Not as entertaining as the previous entries in the series, partially because Swain doesn&#8217;t spend as much time explaining various casino swindles. The centerpiece scam isn&#8217;t as interesting or intricate either. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mysteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}