{"id":1085,"date":"2013-07-24T09:09:16","date_gmt":"2013-07-24T15:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2013-07-25T05:10:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T11:10:50","slug":"man-wins-1-million-following-fortune-cookie-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/24\/man-wins-1-million-following-fortune-cookie-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wins $1 million following fortune cookie advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/resources0.news.com.au\/images\/2013\/07\/24\/1226684\/254916-a75489ba-f400-11e2-86b2-db7941f3673f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>THEY&#8217;RE the post-dinner treat renowned for their cryptic messages, but a fortune cookie was right on the money for one US man with the message &#8220;You will soon come into a lot of gold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The advice inspired Massachusetts resident William Johnson to buy a $11 scratch lotto ticket the following day.<\/p>\n<p>He waited a few days before scratching the results, but when he did, found himself $1.08 million richer.<\/p>\n<p>He chose to collect the money in cash, receiving a one-off payment of $699,000 according to the Massachusetts State Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Johnson and his wife are now deciding what to do with the money, but are thinking about buying a lake house, the Lottery reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Feeding Hills store where the ticket was sold will receive a $10,700 commission on the sale.<\/p>\n<p>The couple beat overall odds of winning which are about 1 in 3.5 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THEY&#8217;RE the post-dinner treat renowned for their cryptic messages, but a fortune cookie was right on the money for one US man with the message &#8220;You will soon come into a lot of gold.&#8221; The advice inspired Massachusetts resident William Johnson to buy a $11 scratch lotto ticket the following day. He waited a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1085\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}