{"id":38330,"date":"2023-11-03T22:50:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T02:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=38330"},"modified":"2023-11-03T22:50:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T02:50:44","slug":"polk-county-woman-becomes-millionaire-after-winning-scratch-off-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2023\/11\/03\/polk-county-woman-becomes-millionaire-after-winning-scratch-off-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk County woman becomes millionaire after winning scratch-off game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Polk County woman became a millionaire after she bought the winning ticket in a scratch-off game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Florida Lottery said Janice Velez, 60, won the top prize of $5 million in the CASHWORD Scratch-Off game.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"180\" height=\"250\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 180px) 100vw, 180px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/download-4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-38331\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She claimed her money at the lottery&#8217;s Tallahassee headquarters as a one-time payment of $3,915,000 on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Velez bought her ticket from a RaceTrac located at 4541 Pleasant Hill Road in Kissimmee. The gas station will receive a $10,000 bonus for selling the winning ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Polk County woman became a millionaire after she bought the winning ticket in a scratch-off game. The Florida Lottery said Janice Velez, 60, won the top prize of $5&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[6587],"class_list":["post-38330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-polk-county-woman-becomes-millionaire-after-winning-scratch-off-game"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}