{"id":1003292,"date":"2022-02-25T00:02:16","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T00:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/25\/maryland-woman-uses-license-plate-number-to-win-lottery-prize\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T00:02:16","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T00:02:16","slug":"maryland-woman-uses-license-plate-number-to-win-lottery-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/25\/maryland-woman-uses-license-plate-number-to-win-lottery-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland woman uses license plate number to win lottery prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Maryland-woman-uses-license-plate-number-to-win-lottery-prize.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 24 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Maryland woman said she turned misfortune into monetary fortune when she used the license plate number from her wrecked car to win a $25,000 lottery prize.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbia woman told Maryland Lottery officials she decided to try the new Pick 5 game on Valentine&#8217;s Day and she bought a 50-cent ticket using the numbers from the license plate of her car, which recently had to be towed from the scene of a minor crash.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The player said she was shocked to check the results the following day and see that she had won $25,000.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I called my friend and said, &#8216;Can you believe this?'&#8221; the winner recalled.<\/p>\n<p>The woman said she is using her prize money to put down the deposit on a new convertible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 24 (UPI) &#8212; A Maryland woman said she turned misfortune into monetary fortune when she used the license plate number from her wrecked car to win a $25,000 lottery prize. The Columbia woman told Maryland Lottery officials she decided to try the new Pick 5 game on Valentine&#8217;s Day and she bought a 50-cent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1003293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-odd-but-true"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}