{"id":1240036,"date":"2022-10-31T20:35:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T20:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/31\/north-carolina-man-wins-250000-from-his-second-lottery-ticket-ever\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T20:35:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T20:35:08","slug":"north-carolina-man-wins-250000-from-his-second-lottery-ticket-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/31\/north-carolina-man-wins-250000-from-his-second-lottery-ticket-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina man wins $250,000 from his second lottery ticket ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_108\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Oct. 31 (UPI) \u2014<\/span> A North Carolina man said the scratch-off ticket that earned him a $250,000 prize was only the second lottery ticket he had ever bought in his life.<\/p>\n<p>Billy Pruett, 56, of Shelby, told North Carolina Education Lottery officials the Mega Bucks Limited Edition scratch-off ticket he bought from Harry\u2019s Quick Shop on Washburn Switch Road in Shelby was only his second lottery ticket ever.\n<\/p>\n<p>Pruett\u2019s beginner\u2019s luck paid off with a $250,000 jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy heart went into my feet,\u201d Pruett said of the moment he realized his ticket was a winner. \u201cI couldn\u2019t sleep all night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pruett said his plans for his winnings include paying some bills, sharing with friends and bolstering his savings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to buy my girlfriend a big Christmas present now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Odd_News\/2022\/10\/31\/lotto-North-Carolina-Education-Lottery-second-ticket-ever\/2891667246683\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 31 (UPI) \u2014 A North Carolina man said the scratch-off ticket that earned him a $250,000 prize was only the second lottery ticket he had ever bought in his life. Billy Pruett, 56, of Shelby, told North Carolina Education Lottery officials the Mega Bucks Limited Edition scratch-off ticket he bought from Harry\u2019s Quick Shop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1240038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1240036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240036","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=1240036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}