{"id":1009010,"date":"2022-03-03T01:01:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T01:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/03\/10-discovered-in-coat-pocket-leads-to-250000-lottery-prize\/"},"modified":"2022-03-03T01:01:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T01:01:35","slug":"10-discovered-in-coat-pocket-leads-to-250000-lottery-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/03\/10-discovered-in-coat-pocket-leads-to-250000-lottery-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"$10 discovered in coat pocket leads to $250,000 lottery prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/10-discovered-in-coat-pocket-leads-to-250000-lottery-prize.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 2 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Kentucky man said finding an extra $10 in his pocket led to the last-minute decision to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket &#8212; and he won $250,000.<\/p>\n<p>Joseph Hellard of Elsmere told Kentucky Lottery officials he went to the Elsmere Mini Mart to buy some scratch-off tickets, but ended up without any winners.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hellard said he was on his way out of the store when he found $10 in his coat pocket and made the snap decision to turn around and buy another ticket.<\/p>\n<p>The player selected a $10 100X scratch-off ticket, which revealed a $250,000 prize.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I fell to the ground on my knees. I just couldn&#8217;t believe what I was seeing. It was crazy,&#8221; Hellard said.<\/p>\n<p>Hellard said he is planning to buy a house and a new vehicle with his winnings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything we&#8217;ve been through, it&#8217;s sure going to help,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 2 (UPI) &#8212; A Kentucky man said finding an extra $10 in his pocket led to the last-minute decision to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket &#8212; and he won $250,000. Joseph Hellard of Elsmere told Kentucky Lottery officials he went to the Elsmere Mini Mart to buy some scratch-off tickets, but ended up without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1009011,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009010","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\/1009010","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=1009010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}