{"id":3233,"date":"2008-03-13T08:16:20","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T13:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/go_figure.html"},"modified":"2008-03-13T08:16:20","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T13:16:20","slug":"go_figure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/03\/go_figure.html","title":{"rendered":"Go Figure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lottery players either lack originality or have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2008\/03\/13\/2008-03-13_state_lottery_officials_closed_down_bett.html\">a wicked sense of humor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>State lottery officials closed down betting on 871 because too many New Yorkers were playing the number &#8212; the hotel room where pay-for-love-gov Eliot Spitzer romped with a hooker.<\/p>\n<p>Officials retired the number for Tuesday night&#8217;s Daily Numbers game after it reached $5 million in sales, lottery spokesman John Charleson said Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>The lottery cuts off sales to numbers when they reach $5 million in order to limit the state&#8217;s payout should the number hit.<\/p>\n<p>The number&#8217;s popularity surged after reports that Spitzer trysted with a high-class hooker named &#8220;Kristen&#8221; in room 871 of the swanky Mayflower Hotel in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>But it turned out to be as unlucky for gamblers as it was for Spitzer: Tuesday evening&#8217;s winning number was 662.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lottery players either lack originality or have a wicked sense of humor: State lottery officials closed down betting on 871 because too many New Yorkers were playing the number &#8212; the hotel room where pay-for-love-gov Eliot Spitzer romped with a hooker. Officials retired the number for Tuesday night&#8217;s Daily Numbers game after it reached $5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thats_a_hoot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233","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=3233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}