{"id":2362,"date":"2007-05-31T10:19:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/05\/you_cant_narrowly_escape_blowing_the_food_money_on_the_lottery_if_you_dont_play.html"},"modified":"2007-05-31T10:19:09","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T18:19:09","slug":"you_cant_narrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/05\/you_cant_narrow.html","title":{"rendered":"You Can’t Narrowly Escape Blowing The Food Money On The Lottery If You Don’t Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

An example to remember<\/a> when you’re blowing the grocery money on scratch tickets:<\/p>\n

You could call him irresponsible, but luck was on the side of a 43-year-old Bronx man who spent his fianc\u00c3\u00a9e’s grocery money on a winning $1 million lottery ticket this month.<\/p>\n

Anthony Knowles and Regina Smith received a fat check at New York Lottery headquarters in lower Manhattan yesterday.<\/p>\n

Two other winners claimed checks for $2 million apiece — not even close to the $105 million Mega Millions jackpot won by a Queens grocery worker last month, but still life-changing to the winners and their families.<\/p>\n

“I was supposed to buy food, but I bought this ticket instead,” admitted Knowles, who spent the $15 Smith gave him on scratch cards. The winning “Million Dollar Player’s Club” ticket cost $5.<\/p>\n

“It was the first time I bought this one,” he said. “I was praying so hard for God to let me win. I prayed the night before, and the morning before I bought the ticket. When I saw the word ‘jackpot,’ I couldn’t believe it.”<\/p>\n

Smith never had the chance to be angry over her fianc\u00c3\u00a9’s hasty long-shot bet, since Knowles transferred the prize to her.<\/p>\n

“She’s the one who bought the ticket for me,” he said. “It’s only fair that she should collect the prize. Ever since she’s been in my life, I’ve had a lot of luck.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An example to remember when you’re blowing the grocery money on scratch tickets: You could call him irresponsible, but luck was on the side of a 43-year-old Bronx man who spent his fianc\u00c3\u00a9e’s grocery money on a winning $1 million lottery ticket this month. Anthony Knowles and Regina Smith received a fat check at New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-things_that_make_you_go_oy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}