{"id":259,"date":"2017-05-18T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T21:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/?p=259"},"modified":"2017-05-18T16:30:02","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T21:30:02","slug":"i-lost-the-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/18\/i-lost-the-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"I lost the lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The PowerBall lottery jackpot was up over <span class=\"m_206924137217858686money\">$200<\/span>\u00a0million yesterday, so I bought <span class=\"m_206924137217858686money\">$10<\/span>\u00a0worth of tickets. That is totally irrational and I realize this, but it&#8217;s nice to dream sometimes.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I thought about what I would do if I actually won, and I realized that I would like to take up writing on a more regular basis. And then, of course, I realized that there is nothing stopping me now from writing more regularly.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">For chrissakes, I&#8217;ve wanted to be a writer since my sophomore year of college, but year after year, I create excuses and I never get around to it.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Well, I only won <span class=\"m_206924137217858686money\">$7<\/span>\u00a0off my <span class=\"m_206924137217858686money\">$10<\/span>\u00a0of PowerBall tickets, but I decided to go ahead and start writing anyway. So, here&#8217;s what I hope will be the first in a long line of blog posts where I write something that someone else might actually read.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">I don&#8217;t have a lot of time today to write anything lengthy or particularly worthwhile, but I swore I&#8217;d post something so here it is.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Tomorrow, I&#8217;ll post again, and then the day after, etc. Maybe one of these posts will be worth reading soon.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PowerBall lottery jackpot was up over $200\u00a0million yesterday, so I bought $10\u00a0worth of tickets. That is totally irrational and I realize this, but it&#8217;s nice to dream sometimes. I thought about what I would do if I actually won, and I realized that I would like to take up writing on a more regular [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/trentdouthat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}