{"id":35257,"date":"2014-12-13T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T10:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=35257"},"modified":"2014-12-13T18:17:12","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T10:17:12","slug":"alberta-lotto-winner-says-hell-buy-a-house-a-car-and-travel-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/12\/13\/alberta-lotto-winner-says-hell-buy-a-house-a-car-and-travel-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Alberta lotto winner says he&#8217;ll buy a house, a car, and travel the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35315\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35315\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_185193113.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35315\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_185193113.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_185193113.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_185193113-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/shutterstock_185193113-900x600.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>EDMONTON &#8212; An Edmonton man is Alberta&#8217;s newest millionaire, having won $9.9 million on the Dec. 3 Lotto 649 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Derek Hulley says he was on his way to do some Christmas shopping when he decided to check a $19 quickpick ticket at a south-side convenience store.<\/p>\n<p>He says at first he thought he&#8217;d won $900,000 but he went to the counter to double-check and the clerk told him it was the big win.<\/p>\n<p>He says he tried to go out and have a bite to eat but he was &#8220;too nervous and shaking too much.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hulley says he&#8217;ll use the money to buy a house, a new car and travel around the world.<\/p>\n<p>He says he&#8217;s always wanted to go to the South Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Hulley&#8217;s win was one-third of the $29.9 million jackpot. There were also two winnings tickets in Ontario.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON &#8212; An Edmonton man is Alberta&#8217;s newest millionaire, having won $9.9 million on the Dec. 3 Lotto 649 draw. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}