{"id":975491,"date":"2022-02-04T00:55:42","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T00:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/man-buys-1m-powerball-ticket-while-filling-up-his-snowmobile\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T00:55:42","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T00:55:42","slug":"man-buys-1m-powerball-ticket-while-filling-up-his-snowmobile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/man-buys-1m-powerball-ticket-while-filling-up-his-snowmobile\/","title":{"rendered":"Man buys $1M Powerball ticket while filling up his snowmobile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Man-buys-1M-Powerball-ticket-while-filling-up-his-snowmobile.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 3 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A Wisconsin man who picked up a Powerball ticket while gassing up his snowmobile ended up winning a $1 million prize.<\/p>\n<p>The Wisconsin Lottery said Daniel Bellefeuille, of Spooner, became the state&#8217;s first $1 million lottery winner since August 2021, thanks to the ticket he bought while putting gas in his snowmobile at the Spooner Marathon station.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bellefeuille&#8217;s ticket matched the five white balls in the Jan. 17 drawing: 9-24-35-46-65.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I had a dream ever since the Powerball started that I was going to win,&#8221; Bellefeuille told lottery officials.<\/p>\n<p>The winner said he is planning his retirement and will use some of his winnings to buy a used car and finish the house he has been building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 3 (UPI) &#8212; A Wisconsin man who picked up a Powerball ticket while gassing up his snowmobile ended up winning a $1 million prize. The Wisconsin Lottery said Daniel Bellefeuille, of Spooner, became the state&#8217;s first $1 million lottery winner since August 2021, thanks to the ticket he bought while putting gas in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":975492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975491","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\/975491","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=975491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=975491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=975491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=975491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}