{"id":33046,"date":"2018-10-25T03:02:48","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T03:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33046"},"modified":"2018-10-25T03:02:48","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T03:02:48","slug":"mega-millions-has-a-winner-for-better-or-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33046","title":{"rendered":"Mega Millions has a winner, for better or worse"},"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\/2018\/10\/MegaMillionsLogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33010\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MegaMillionsLogo-300x152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MegaMillionsLogo-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MegaMillionsLogo-768x390.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MegaMillionsLogo-1024x520.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/MegaMillionsLogo.jpg 1330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have two quick comments about the winner of the $1.6 billion Mega Millions lottery. Bear with me.<\/p>\n<p>First, <strong>stay anonymous<\/strong>. The winner purchased the ticket at a convenience store in Simpsonville, S.C. South Carolina is one of few states that allows the winners of these games of chance to keep their identity hidden.<\/p>\n<p>I strongly encourage this individual to do precisely that. I don&#8217;t need to know who he or she is. Nor does anyone else. Exposing one&#8217;s identity also exposes one to scammers, relatives real or imagined, crooks and thieves.<\/p>\n<p>Protect yourself from those who would seek to take advantage of you.<\/p>\n<p>Second, <strong>wait for the rush that will occur at KC Mart #7<\/strong> in Simpsonville. It never fails: the retailer that peddles the winning ticket at these high-dollar games suddenly becomes the most popular such establishment among those seeking to win the next big payoff.<\/p>\n<p>What they don&#8217;t realize is that the odds of the same retail outlet selling the next winner are even more astronomically remote than they were for the first one.<\/p>\n<p>A fellow won a $40-something million Texas Lottery drawing some years ago in Amarillo. He bought the ticket at a convenience store. That same store had a gigantic rush for the next drawing.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;ll happen now with the KC Mart #7. I&#8217;ll be giggling from afar.<\/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>I have two quick comments about the winner of the $1.6 billion Mega Millions lottery. Bear with me. First, stay anonymous. The winner purchased the ticket at a convenience store in Simpsonville, S.C. South Carolina is one of few states that allows the winners of these games of chance to keep their identity hidden. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33046\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mega Millions has a winner, for better or worse<\/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":[13],"tags":[5847,8068,2992,4658],"class_list":["post-33046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-games-of-chance","tag-lottery","tag-mega-millions","tag-texas-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33046","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=33046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33047,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33046\/revisions\/33047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}