{"id":656696,"date":"2013-05-08T09:30:49","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=228814"},"modified":"2013-05-08T09:30:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T13:30:49","slug":"powerball-jackpot-reaches-222-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/656696","title":{"rendered":"Powerball Jackpot Reaches $222 Million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With no jackpot winners in the month of April, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/tag\/powerball\">Powerball<\/a> Jackpot has now risen to an incredible $222 million.  There were no jackpot winners for Saturday&#8217;s (May 4) drawing, and also no &#8216;Match 5&#8242; winners, who would have won a $2 million payout.  Though no big payouts came this weekend, over one million people across the U.S. won a combined $11.2 million in prizes.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/tag\/mega-millions\">Mega Millions<\/a> jackpot has also been growing, and now sits at $154 million.  There were also no Mega Millions jackpot winners for Tuesday&#8217;s drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Though the odds of any one person winning are, obviously, low, stories constantly pop up to remind players that the odds of <em>someone<\/em> eventually winning are certain.  Just this week, a California woman who accidentally purchased an extra SuperLotto Plus ticket <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/lotto-mistake-14m-won-on-accidental-ticket-purchase-2013-05\">won $14 million for her mistake<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"616\" height=\"347\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jmPvagfxlNs?list=UUVIYpabA5_ec95kyEqq0uyw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=hfUIyPJAvok:Obj6JackC1k:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=hfUIyPJAvok:Obj6JackC1k:wF9xT3WuBAs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=hfUIyPJAvok:Obj6JackC1k:wF9xT3WuBAs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=hfUIyPJAvok:Obj6JackC1k:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=hfUIyPJAvok:Obj6JackC1k:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=hfUIyPJAvok:Obj6JackC1k:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=hfUIyPJAvok:Obj6JackC1k:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?a=hfUIyPJAvok:Obj6JackC1k:mfZ73u_VV2s\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/webpronews\/all?i=hfUIyPJAvok:Obj6JackC1k:mfZ73u_VV2s\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/webpronews\/all\/~4\/hfUIyPJAvok\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With no jackpot winners in the month of April, the Powerball Jackpot has now risen to an incredible $222 million. There were no jackpot winners for Saturday&#8217;s (May 4) drawing, and also no &#8216;Match 5&#8242; winners, who would have won a $2 million payout. Though no big payouts came this weekend, over one million people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7356,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7356"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}