{"id":982296,"date":"2022-02-09T01:19:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T01:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/09\/north-carolina-man-wins-110000-using-kids-birthdays-to-play-the-lottery\/"},"modified":"2022-02-09T01:19:47","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T01:19:47","slug":"north-carolina-man-wins-110000-using-kids-birthdays-to-play-the-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/09\/north-carolina-man-wins-110000-using-kids-birthdays-to-play-the-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"North Carolina man wins $110,000 using kids&#039; birthdays to play the lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/North-Carolina-man-wins-110000-using-kids-birthdays-to-play-the-lottery.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"story_dl\">Feb. 8 (UPI) &#8212;<\/span> A North Carolina man found children are truly the gift that keeps on giving when he played their birthdays in the lottery and won $110,000.<\/p>\n<p>Louis Paine Jr., 77, of Fletcher, told North Carolina Education Lottery officials the ticket he bought for the Feb. 1 Cash 5 drawing bore a set of numbers adapted from his children&#8217;s birthdays.\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-5 text-center mb-5\">\n<div class=\"ad_tag\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Paine said he was shocked to discover the ticket he bought from the Ingles store in Fletcher was a $110,000 winner.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was flabbergasted,&#8221; Paine said. &#8220;Of course I didn&#8217;t believe it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paine, a retired teacher, said he likes playing the lottery because of funds that go to education in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Giving back to education is very important,&#8221; Paine said. &#8220;It&#8217;s the greatest thing we have in our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Paine said he plans to invest some of his winnings and share the rest with his family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 8 (UPI) &#8212; A North Carolina man found children are truly the gift that keeps on giving when he played their birthdays in the lottery and won $110,000. Louis Paine Jr., 77, of Fletcher, told North Carolina Education Lottery officials the ticket he bought for the Feb. 1 Cash 5 drawing bore a set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":982297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982296","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\/982296","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=982296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}