{"id":33692,"date":"2018-03-20T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T01:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-man-celebrates-50000-powerball-win-with-trip-to-thailand\/"},"modified":"2018-03-20T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T01:30:00","slug":"kent-man-celebrates-50000-powerball-win-with-trip-to-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-man-celebrates-50000-powerball-win-with-trip-to-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent man celebrates $50,000 Powerball win with trip to Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Kent man is celebrating after winning $50,000 playing Powerball on Saturday, March 10. He purchased his winning ticket earlier that morning from the 7-Eleven, 680 Strander Blvd.<\/p>\n<p>The winner told Lottery officials that when he first realized he won, he didn&rsquo;t want to tell anyone but his wife until they could verify the numbers. They were able to confirm the numbers late Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I lost my mother two years ago. I think my mom was looking out for me with this win,&rdquo; said the man.<\/p>\n<p>He and his wife, who wish to remain anonymous, are employees of the U.S. Postal Service and have been married for more than 14 years. The couple met during a trip to Minnesota during New Year&rsquo;s, and after falling in love, she moved to Kent.<\/p>\n<p>The couple plan to spend their winnings on a trip to Thailand. They want to explore different cities and are excited to ride elephants.<\/p>\n<p>Proceeds from Washington&rsquo;s Lottery benefit the Washington Opportunity Pathways Account, providing grants to college students statewide. To learn more about Washington&rsquo;s Lottery, its beneficiaries and to review all up-to-date winning numbers, visit walottery.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>For the Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":33693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-33692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33692"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=33692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}