{"id":767556,"date":"2022-01-27T01:31:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-27T01:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/friend-convinced-n-c-woman-to-buy-150000-powerball-ticket\/"},"modified":"2022-01-27T01:31:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T01:31:35","slug":"friend-convinced-n-c-woman-to-buy-150000-powerball-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/27\/friend-convinced-n-c-woman-to-buy-150000-powerball-ticket\/","title":{"rendered":"Friend convinced N.C. woman to buy $150,000 Powerball ticket"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nancy Linn, of Salisbury, N.C., said a friend convinced her to buy the Powerball ticket that earned her a $150,000 prize. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Education Lottery<\/p>\n

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Jan. 26 (UPI) —<\/span> A North Carolina woman said she won a $150,000 Powerball prize thanks to a friend who urged her to buy a ticket.<\/p>\n

Nancy Linn, 72, of Salisbury, told North Carolina Education Lottery officials she wouldn’t have bought a ticket for the Jan. 19 drawing if she hadn’t been talked into it by a friend.\n<\/p>\n<\/article>\n

“My friend was stopping to get a Powerball ticket after we played bridge and she convinced me to get one too,” Linn said. “She even suggested I get the $3 ticket.”<\/p>\n

Linn bought her Quick Pick ticket with the Multiplier option from the Han-Dee Hugo’s store in Salisbury.<\/p>\n

Her ticket matched four white balls and the Powerball in the drawing, earning her a $50,000 prize that was increased to $150,000 when the 3X multiplier was drawn.<\/p>\n

“I was so ecstatic I couldn’t even believe it,” Linn said. “I’m still in shock.”<\/p>\n

Linn, a retired first grade teacher and tennis coach, said her background in education made the win more meaningful.<\/p>\n

“As a former teacher, I really can appreciate how great the lottery is for education,” Linn said.<\/p>\n

Linn said she plans to use her winnings to remodel her bathroom and give back to the community.\n<\/p>\n

“There are a lot of different organizations and people I know that could really use a pick-me-up,” Linn said.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nancy Linn, of Salisbury, N.C., said a friend convinced her to buy the Powerball ticket that earned her a $150,000 prize. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Education Lottery Jan. 26 (UPI) — A North Carolina woman said she won a $150,000 Powerball prize thanks to a friend who urged her to buy a ticket. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":767557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767556","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\/767556","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=767556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}