{"id":8201,"date":"2015-02-14T04:59:52","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T04:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8201"},"modified":"2015-02-14T04:59:52","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T04:59:52","slug":"woman-hits-it-big-real-big","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=8201","title":{"rendered":"Woman hits it big … real big"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Some people have all the luck, and occasionally it’s quite good.<\/p>\n

Take a young North Carolina woman, for example.<\/p>\n

Marie Holmes is a single mother of four children. She’s unemployed. One of her children suffers from cerebral palsy. Then she took a chance at the Powerball payoff.<\/p>\n

She won — big!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/articles\/news\/2015\/02\/nc_mother_of_4_who_had_to_quit_working_to_care_for_children_hits_powerball.html?wpisrc=topstories<\/p>\n

Holmes is one of three winners of a jackpot totaling $564 million. Just like that, she’s a multimillionaire.<\/p>\n

Stories like this make me almost<\/em>\u00a0happy that states sanction gambling in this manner. I say “almost”\u00a0 because I don’t believe in these get-rich-quick schemes.<\/p>\n

Don’t misunderstand. I’m happy for Marie Holmes and her children. She had to quit her job to take care of them, as she couldn’t afford the child care required.<\/p>\n

Well, she can afford it now — and then some.<\/p>\n

These kinds of stories tempt me to play the game. So far, I’m glad to say, they haven’t tempted me beyond my strength.<\/p>\n

Hey, I’m still a dollar ahead in the Texas lottery. I bought my first lottery ticket for a dollar in 1991 and got $3 back. So, ahead by $2 at the time, I bought another ticket the following week; I didn’t win a thing.<\/p>\n

That’s when I quit.\u00a0Being a\u00a0dollar ahead is good enough for me.<\/p>\n

As for Marie Holmes, may she avoid the pitfalls that trap so many big winners. Hire a good lawyer, young lady.<\/p>\n

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Some people have all the luck, and occasionally it’s quite good. Take a young North Carolina woman, for example. Marie Holmes is a single mother of four children. She’s unemployed. One of her children suffers from cerebral palsy. Then she took a chance at the Powerball payoff. She won — big! http:\/\/www.theroot.com\/articles\/news\/2015\/02\/nc_mother_of_4_who_had_to_quit_working_to_care_for_children_hits_powerball.html?wpisrc=topstories Holmes is one … Continue reading Woman hits it big … real big<\/span> →<\/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":[907,2898,3691,4658],"class_list":["post-8201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-cerebral-palsy","tag-marie-holmes","tag-powerball","tag-texas-lottery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201","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=8201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}