{"id":198950,"date":"2020-02-07T12:34:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T09:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww-vb.mine.nu\/w108\/retired-principal-wins-mega-millions-jackpot\/"},"modified":"2020-02-07T12:34:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T09:34:51","slug":"retired-principal-wins-mega-millions-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/retired-principal-wins-mega-millions-jackpot\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired principal wins Mega Millions jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/brDLRKx_PLc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>MIDDLETOWN &#8212; A retired elementary school principal has some bad weather to thank for winning a $326 million jackpot.<\/p>\n<p>Harold Diamond, 80, from Sullivan County was driving to Middletown with his wife on Election Day when the weather took a turn. &#8220;My wife insisted we stop here to eat and wait for the weather to clear,&#8221; he says, &#8220;and I reluctantly agreed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That decision paid off after Dianond noticed the Mega Millions jackpot flashing and decided to buy 10 sets of quick pick numbers for that night&#8217;s drawing. But he forgot about the tickets until the next day when he went to play a round of golf and overheard people in the clubhouse talking about a jackpot-winning ticket bought in the very same store.<\/p>\n<p>Diamond rushed home to find out he was the sole winner of the largest jackpot ever claimed in New York. He has opted to take a single lump sum payment of $197,456,087, which will work out to more than $130 million after withholdings. He plans to help family and give back to the local community with the winnings.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=brDLRKx_PLc\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIDDLETOWN &#8212; A retired elementary school principal has some bad weather to thank for winning a $326 million jackpot. Harold Diamond, 80, from Sullivan County was driving to Middletown with his wife on Election Day when the weather took a turn. &#8220;My wife insisted we stop here to eat and wait for the weather to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[56658,5397,101200,15894,4166,3845,22709],"class_list":["post-198950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tie-life-style","tag-camera-phone","tag-free","tag-mega-millions-jackpot","tag-sharing","tag-upload","tag-video","tag-video-phone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hameed.nwar.uk\/sa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}