{"id":608,"date":"2010-04-27T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T21:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2010-04-27T14:58:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T21:58:46","slug":"store-clerk-wins-258m-powerball-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Store Clerk Wins $258M Powerball Jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/cache.boston.com\/resize\/bonzai-fba\/AP_Photo\/2010\/04\/22\/1271983851_7662\/300h.jpg\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.boston.com\/resize\/bonzai-fba\/AP_Photo\/2010\/04\/22\/1271983851_7662\/300h.jpg\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Shaw said he will seek advice &#8220;from people who know about money&#8221; before deciding whether to take the jackpot in 30 payments over 29 years or the lump-sum amount of $124,875,122. He also said he needed a few days before deciding whether he will continue working his minimum-wage job.<\/p>\n<p>Shaw &#8212; who has a 10-year-old son, a 7-year-old girl and a 5-year-old girl by two different women &#8212; said he had played Missouri Scratchers lottery tickets before, winning at most $80. He checked his Powerball ticket against the state lottery&#8217;s website only after his girlfriend, Tosha Ewry, told him the winning ticket was bought at the store where he works.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shaw said he will seek advice &#8220;from people who know about money&#8221; before deciding whether to take the jackpot in 30 payments over 29 years or the lump-sum amount of $124,875,122. He also said he needed a few days before deciding whether he will continue working his minimum-wage job. Shaw &#8212; who has a 10-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":610,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.theshowtampa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}