{"id":1006653,"date":"2022-03-01T00:04:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/01\/man-wins-1-million-lottery-prize-during-stop-to-buy-a-ginger-ale\/"},"modified":"2022-03-01T00:04:38","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:04:38","slug":"man-wins-1-million-lottery-prize-during-stop-to-buy-a-ginger-ale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/01\/man-wins-1-million-lottery-prize-during-stop-to-buy-a-ginger-ale\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wins $1 million lottery prize during stop to buy a ginger ale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Man-wins-1-million-lottery-prize-during-stop-to-buy-a-ginger-ale.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 28 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A thirsty Massachusetts man who stopped at a store to buy a ginger ale ended up buying a scratch-off lottery ticket that earned him a $1 million jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>Nicholas Fulmer of Dracut told Massachusetts State Lottery officials he stopped at the Market Basket in Lowell because the store carries a specific brand of ginger ale that he likes.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Fulmer said he decided while in the store to buy a 100X The Cash scratch.<\/p>\n<p>The ticket turned out to be a $1 million top prize winner. Fulmer chose to take his winnings as a one-time, lump-sum payment of $650,000.<\/p>\n<p>Fulmer said he plans to put his winnings toward buying a house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 28 (UPI) &#8212; A thirsty Massachusetts man who stopped at a store to buy a ginger ale ended up buying a scratch-off lottery ticket that earned him a $1 million jackpot. Nicholas Fulmer of Dracut told Massachusetts State Lottery officials he stopped at the Market Basket in Lowell because the store carries a specific [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1006654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006653","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\/1006653","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=1006653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}