{"id":39,"date":"2004-06-20T04:38:19","date_gmt":"2004-06-20T04:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=39"},"modified":"2012-05-12T02:28:40","modified_gmt":"2012-05-12T02:28:40","slug":"yet-people-keep-playing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/?p=39","title":{"rendered":"yet people keep playing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"CNN.com - Huge jackpot reflects trend in state lotteries - Jun 19, 2004\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/US\/Southwest\/06\/19\/big.jackpots.ap\/index.html\">Huge jackpot reflects trend in state lotteries<\/a><br \/>\nApparently some lotteries are getting harder to win.  But I think many lotto players aren&#8217;t getting the point.  The chances you&#8217;ll win are incredibly, incredibly small.  Sock that one or two dollars a week that you spend on a ticket into anything, even a measly savings account, and unless you were that very lucky one, you&#8217;ll come out ahead.  Think there aren&#8217;t people who are playing the lottery every week?  Spend a few hours at a TV station between 10pm and 2a, for a few nights in a row &#8212; you&#8217;ll notice many of the same callers, needing the lotto numbers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge jackpot reflects trend in state lotteries Apparently some lotteries are getting harder to win. But I think many lotto players aren&#8217;t getting the point. The chances you&#8217;ll win are incredibly, incredibly small. Sock that one or two dollars a week that you spend on a ticket into anything, even a measly savings account, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.somuchtosay.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}