{"id":11396,"date":"2012-01-07T19:29:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11396"},"modified":"2012-01-07T19:29:44","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T00:29:44","slug":"maybe-winning-the-lottery-wasnt-so-great-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11396","title":{"rendered":"Maybe Winning The Lottery Wasn&#8217;t So Great After All"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Mark_six_ticket_front.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"The front of a used Mark Six ticket\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/40\/Mark_six_ticket_front.jpg\/300px-Mark_six_ticket_front.jpg\" alt=\"The front of a used Mark Six ticket\" width=\"300\" height=\"248\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are a lot of people walking around dreaming of winning the lottery. I was in a local convenience store recently when a man came in and bought $10 worth of gasoline and $20 worth of lottery tickets. I thought his priorities might be a little off, but I suppose I should thank him&#8211;he&#8217;s paying money to the state that I don&#8217;t have to.<\/p>\n<p>Most states now have state lotteries. Illinois is no exception. However, eighty-five of their recent lottery winners may not currently be feeling like winners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/publius\/2012\/01\/07\/illinois-lottery-winners-checks-from-the-state-bounce\/\">Big Government<\/a> reported today that $159,000 in checks to eighty-five lottery winners in Illinois <em>bounced<\/em>. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>Please follow the link to the article&#8211;the article is short and pretty much says what I have posted, but the comments are amazing.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"float: right; border-style: none;\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=3d6fbf77-591f-42ce-8f46-026b295ffd64\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are a lot of people walking around dreaming of winning the lottery. I was in a local convenience store recently when a man came in and bought $10 worth of gasoline and $20 worth of lottery tickets. I thought &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=11396\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[147,1761,1760,1759],"class_list":["post-11396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-illinois","tag-illinois-lottery","tag-illinois-lottery-checks-bounced","tag-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11414,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396\/revisions\/11414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}