{"id":3039,"date":"2006-04-17T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T21:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3039"},"modified":"2017-12-21T10:18:34","modified_gmt":"2017-12-21T16:18:34","slug":"yesterdays-punchlines-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/17\/yesterdays-punchlines-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday&#8217;s Punchlines Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/stlouiscitycounty\/story\/12F0EA12BD18E68A86257150005371A5?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Powerball jackpot: 1 ticket. 13 people.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They used to chase dead-beat dads. Now they&#8217;re chasing dreams.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Missouri Lottery announced the winners of the state&#8217;s largest Powerball jackpot ever, $224.2 million. The big winners, dubbed the Lucky 13, are employees with the Missouri Department of Social Services.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When interviewed, the winners said they wouldn&#8217;t work another day and that the lottery wouldn&#8217;t change them.  Given their employer, this is probably not a contradiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powerball jackpot: 1 ticket. 13 people.: They used to chase dead-beat dads. Now they&#8217;re chasing dreams. On Thursday, the Missouri Lottery announced the winners of the state&#8217;s largest Powerball jackpot ever, $224.2 million. The big winners, dubbed the Lucky 13, are employees with the Missouri Department of Social Services. When interviewed, the winners said they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3039"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18828,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3039\/revisions\/18828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}