{"id":8394,"date":"2010-09-24T10:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-24T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/philadelphia-becomes-largest-u-s-city-with-casino\/"},"modified":"2010-09-24T10:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-24T10:21:00","slug":"philadelphia-becomes-largest-u-s-city-with-casino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/philadelphia-becomes-largest-u-s-city-with-casino\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Becomes Largest U.S. City with Casino"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n<strong>Will economic benefits arrive with the new casino?<\/strong>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\">\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<p>On Thursday, Philadelphia became the largest U.S. city with a casino when Pennsylvania&rsquo;s 10th gambling hall opened despite years of community protests and delays. <\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\nSugarHouse Casino attracted a rough crowd of over a thousand people to the Delaware River waterfront for a chance to play among its 1,600 slot machines and 40 table games. For entertainment, a string band played.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&ldquo;SugarHouse is the place to be in Philadelphia,&rdquo; Wendy Hamilton said, General Manager of the SugarHouse.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nLawmakers and officials praised the creation of around 900 jobs and other economic benefits that came with the project.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe casino went through test runs of the games on Monday and Wednesday with proceeds going to charity, before the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board gave it permission to open.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source:<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/m.apnews.com\/ap\/db_16045\/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=oMvx720A\" target=\"_blank\"> Associated Press <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Will economic benefits arrive with the new casino? &nbsp; &nbsp; On Thursday, Philadelphia became the largest U.S. city with a casino when Pennsylvania&rsquo;s 10th gambling hall opened despite years of community protests and delays. &nbsp; SugarHouse Casino attracted a rough crowd of over a thousand people to the Delaware River waterfront for a chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}