{"id":6435,"date":"2012-03-30T19:32:11","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T23:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2012-03-30T19:34:17","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T23:34:17","slug":"georgians-lottery-suckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2012\/03\/30\/georgians-lottery-suckers\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgians Lottery Suckers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A CNN article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2012\/03\/30\/news\/economy\/lottery-bad-bet\/index.htm\">$640 million lottery jackpot<\/a> tonight revealed something interesting.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to data crunched by\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-03-14\/georgia-lottery-players-suckers-spending-most-for-least.html\" target=\"new\">Bloomberg<\/a>,<em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>Georgia residents are the biggest &#8220;suckers.&#8221; They spend an average of $471 per year on the lottery, or 1% of their average income, while receiving a payout of 63 cents on the dollar.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, but I got some of the 15-25 cents on the dollar in the form of the HOPE scholarship paid for my (and millions of other kids&#8217;) college education. Pell helped as well. So did family and working.<\/p>\n<p>Probably I could have achieved it without the scholarship. Then again I probably would still be paying off my student loans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A CNN article on the $640 million lottery jackpot tonight revealed something interesting. According to data crunched by\u00c2\u00a0Bloomberg,\u00c2\u00a0Georgia residents are the biggest &#8220;suckers.&#8221; They spend an average of $471 per year on the lottery, or 1% of their average income, while receiving a payout of 63 cents on the dollar. Yeah, but I got some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[21],"tags":[2380],"class_list":["post-6435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-university","tag-posted-2012"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-1FN","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}