{"id":756357,"date":"2022-01-19T03:15:37","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T03:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/man-wins-300000-lottery-prize-while-waiting-at-drive-through\/"},"modified":"2022-01-19T03:15:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T03:15:37","slug":"man-wins-300000-lottery-prize-while-waiting-at-drive-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/19\/man-wins-300000-lottery-prize-while-waiting-at-drive-through\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wins $300,000 lottery prize while waiting at drive-through"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Man-wins-300000-lottery-prize-while-waiting-at-drive-through.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Jan. 18 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A South Carolina man said he left a fast food drive-through line without placing an order when he discovered he had won a $300,000 lottery prize.<\/p>\n<p>The Anderson man told South Carolina Education Lottery officials he was waiting in a long drive-through line when he decided to scratch off a lottery ticket he had purchased earlier from the Expressway #25 store in Anderson.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The player said he was shocked when the $300,000 Money Match ticket revealed the top prize.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had to double and triple check it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Then I had to make sure my heart was still working.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The man said he ended up leaving the drive-through line without placing an order.<\/p>\n<p>The winner said he already started to put his prize money to good use.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I retired,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan. 18 (UPI) &#8212; A South Carolina man said he left a fast food drive-through line without placing an order when he discovered he had won a $300,000 lottery prize. The Anderson man told South Carolina Education Lottery officials he was waiting in a long drive-through line when he decided to scratch off a lottery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-756357","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\/756357","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=756357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}