{"id":1022322,"date":"2022-03-15T12:56:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/15\/north-carolina-man-wins-250000-from-scratch-off-after-going-to-buy-lemonade\/"},"modified":"2022-03-15T12:56:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T12:56:29","slug":"north-carolina-man-wins-250000-from-scratch-off-after-going-to-buy-lemonade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/15\/north-carolina-man-wins-250000-from-scratch-off-after-going-to-buy-lemonade\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina man wins $250,000 from scratch-off after going to buy lemonade"},"content":{"rendered":"

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March 15 (UPI) —<\/span> Dennis Moore of Ayden, N.C., walked into a store to buy lemonade and walked out with $250,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket.<\/p>\n

Moore, a 36-year-old machine operator, told lottery officials that something pushed him to buy a lottery ticket, so he settled on the $5.00 20X The Cash scratch-off ticket.\n<\/p>\n

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“I had to turn the light on in my truck to make sure I was seeing it right. I was so happy my hands started shaking,” he said.<\/p>\n

Moore collected his prize on Friday, which added up to $146,402 after state and federal taxes.<\/p>\n

Moore said he will use the money to buy a new house for himself and his two children.<\/p>\n

The 20X The Cash scratch-off ticket was started in February with four chances for players to win the $250,000 top prize. Two tickets with the top prize have yet to be claimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

March 15 (UPI) — Dennis Moore of Ayden, N.C., walked into a store to buy lemonade and walked out with $250,000 from a scratch-off lottery ticket. Moore, a 36-year-old machine operator, told lottery officials that something pushed him to buy a lottery ticket, so he settled on the $5.00 20X The Cash scratch-off ticket. Advertisement […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1022323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022322","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\/1022322","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=1022322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}