{"id":47290,"date":"2026-08-18T17:55:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/teens-are-gambling-on-esports-a-lot-more-than-parents-think\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T17:55:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T16:55:21","slug":"teens-are-gambling-on-esports-a-lot-more-than-parents-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/18\/teens-are-gambling-on-esports-a-lot-more-than-parents-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Teens are gambling on esports a lot more than parents think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When most parents picture gambling, they imagine a smoky casino floor filled with slot machines and retirees pulling levers. But in the modern digital age, the reality looks a lot more like a teenager lying on their bed, tapping away on a smartphone while scrolling through sports stats or opening digital loot crates in their favorite video game&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/teens-gambling-esports-study\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When most parents picture gambling, they imagine a smoky casino floor filled with slot machines and retirees pulling levers. But in the modern digital age, the reality looks a lot more like a teenager lying on their bed, tapping away on a smartphone while scrolling through sports stats or opening digital loot crates in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}