{"id":743903,"date":"2022-01-11T01:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T01:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/michigan-man-wins-402063-lottery-jackpot-on-71st-birthday\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T01:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T01:19:23","slug":"michigan-man-wins-402063-lottery-jackpot-on-71st-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/michigan-man-wins-402063-lottery-jackpot-on-71st-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan man wins $402,063 lottery jackpot on 71st birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Michigan-man-wins-402063-lottery-jackpot-on-71st-birthday.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 10 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Michigan man who bought a lottery ticket on his birthday checked the winning numbers the next day and discovered he had won a $402,063 jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>The Oakland County man told Michigan Lottery officials he celebrated his 71st birthday by purchasing a Fantasy 5 ticket from the Dixie Party Store in Clarkston.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;I bought a Fantasy 5 ticket on my birthday hoping to win big, but you never expect to,&#8221; the player said. &#8220;I went to the store the next day and got a printout of the winning numbers. When I saw I&#8217;d matched all five, I couldn&#8217;t believe I had actually won, especially since it was on my birthday!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man&#8217;s ticket matched all the numbers drawn, 01-03-19-28-29, earning him a $402,063 prize.<\/p>\n<p>The winner said he plans to share his prize money with his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 10 (UPI) &#8212; A Michigan man who bought a lottery ticket on his birthday checked the winning numbers the next day and discovered he had won a $402,063 jackpot. The Oakland County man told Michigan Lottery officials he celebrated his 71st birthday by purchasing a Fantasy 5 ticket from the Dixie Party Store in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743903","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\/743903","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=743903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}