{"id":12335,"date":"2016-01-11T22:55:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T22:55:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12335"},"modified":"2016-01-11T22:55:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T22:55:53","slug":"what-we-might-expect-from-a-winning-ticket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12335","title":{"rendered":"What we might expect from a winning ticket?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/games_of_chance.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12337\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12337\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/games_of_chance.jpg\" alt=\"games_of_chance\" width=\"265\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OK, I&#8217;m about to offer a\u00a0not-so-bold prediction.<\/p>\n<p>One day, maybe soon, someone &#8212; or some people &#8212; is going to win the Powerball prize that totals more than $1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a <em>billion bucks<\/em>, man.<\/p>\n<p>The prediction? The place where the winning ticket was purchased will become the target of suckers seeking to win the <em>next<\/em> big payoff.<\/p>\n<p>It happens whenever they give out a lot of money.<\/p>\n<p>I recall it happening in Amarillo not many years ago when someone here won a Texas Lottery payoff; I think it totaled a paltry $100 million, or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>The convenience store &#8212; the location escapes me &#8212; where the guy bought the ticket became flooded with customers looking to buy the next winning ticket.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an amazing aspect of human nature, I suppose. Those who like the play these games of chance are drawn to where the winning ticket is sold.<\/p>\n<p>They apparently forget that the chances of the same outlet selling a winning ticket twice in a row are infinitely more remote than the outlet selling a winning ticket in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever . . .<\/p>\n<p>This Powerball mania is getting serious, folks.<\/p>\n<p>I hope the winner &#8212; or winners &#8212; are ready to\u00a0fend off the overtures from their millions of new best friends.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, I&#8217;m about to offer a\u00a0not-so-bold prediction. One day, maybe soon, someone &#8212; or some people &#8212; is going to win the Powerball prize that totals more than $1 billion. That&#8217;s a billion bucks, man. The prediction? The place where the winning ticket was purchased will become the target of suckers seeking to win the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12335\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What we might expect from a winning ticket?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,13,18],"tags":[5847,3691,4658],"class_list":["post-12335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-national-news","category-state-news","tag-games-of-chance","tag-powerball","tag-texas-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12335"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12338,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12335\/revisions\/12338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}