{"id":1015869,"date":"2022-03-09T15:38:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T15:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/09\/norfolk-man-spends-extra-dollar-and-wins-100000-playing-powerball\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T15:38:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T15:38:23","slug":"norfolk-man-spends-extra-dollar-and-wins-100000-playing-powerball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/09\/norfolk-man-spends-extra-dollar-and-wins-100000-playing-powerball\/","title":{"rendered":"Norfolk man spends extra dollar and wins $100,000 playing Powerball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Norfolk-man-spends-extra-dollar-and-wins-100000-playing-Powerball.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">March 9 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> Emmanuel Sumigcay of Norfolk, Va., was able to double his Powerball earnings by spending an extra dollar for Power Play, resulting in $100,000.<\/p>\n<p>Sumigcay, using numbers that represented important family dates, had correctly selected four numbers plus the Powerball number.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Under normal circumstances, this would have resulted in a $50,000 cash prize, however, the extra dollar spent on Power Play doubled his earnings.<\/p>\n<p>Sumigcay discovered he had won the Virginia Lottery&#8217;s Powerball at 3 a.m. after working the late shift, causing him to immediately wake up his wife.<\/p>\n<p>The winner told lottery officials that he will put the $100,000 towards retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 9 (UPI) &#8212; Emmanuel Sumigcay of Norfolk, Va., was able to double his Powerball earnings by spending an extra dollar for Power Play, resulting in $100,000. Sumigcay, using numbers that represented important family dates, had correctly selected four numbers plus the Powerball number. Advertisement Under normal circumstances, this would have resulted in a $50,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1015870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1015869","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\/1015869","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=1015869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}