{"id":559,"date":"2010-02-05T13:54:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T03:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com\/?p=559"},"modified":"2010-02-05T13:54:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T03:54:47","slug":"more-on-numbers-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/updates\/more-on-numbers-gambling\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Numbers Gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-512\" title=\"Dream Book Cover\" src=\"http:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dream-book-cover.jpg?w=209\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dream-book-cover.jpg 250w, https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/dream-book-cover-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the publication of our book <em>Playing the Numbers<\/em> drawing near, I&#8217;ve added some more pages explaining the game:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>how the number was generated<\/li>\n<li>how players chose a number to bet on,<\/li>\n<li>how the policing of numbers worked<\/li>\n<li>who operated the game, the bankers and kings and queens.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also added a new resource, selections from a dream book &#8212; the texts that translated dreams and events from everyday life into three digit numbers on which to bet.<\/p>\n<p>(click <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalharlemblog.wordpress.com\/playing-the-numbers-the-book\/\">here<\/a> or the tab at the top of the blog to see these pages)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the publication of our book Playing the Numbers drawing near, I&#8217;ve added some more pages explaining the game: how&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[16,21,41,46,59,69,104,105,107,114,124,127,187,194,195,197,198,219,220,272],"class_list":["post-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates","tag-1920s","tag-1930s","tag-alex-pompez","tag-arrests","tag-black-business","tag-casper-holstein","tag-dream-book","tag-dreams","tag-dutch-schultz","tag-elks","tag-gambling","tag-harlem","tag-new-york-clearing-house","tag-numbers","tag-numbers-banker","tag-numbers-king","tag-numbers-queen","tag-police","tag-policy-pete","tag-stephanie-st-clair"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paM3Ks-91","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drstephenrobertson.com\/digitalharlemblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}