{"id":37579,"date":"2015-01-07T17:32:02","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T09:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=37579"},"modified":"2015-02-20T15:21:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T07:21:21","slug":"errand-girl-from-qc-hits-it-big-with-p32-m-lotto-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/01\/07\/errand-girl-from-qc-hits-it-big-with-p32-m-lotto-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"Errand girl from QC hits it big with P32-M lotto prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35451\" style=\"width: 579px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pcso-lotto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35451\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pcso-lotto.jpg\" alt=\"photo courtesy of www.pcso-lottoresults.com\" width=\"579\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pcso-lotto.jpg 579w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/pcso-lotto-300x174.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo courtesy of www.pcso-lottoresults.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>With no other idea how to escape poverty, a young woman working as an errand girl in Quezon City did the only think she knew to do, as a possible way out of financial crisis: She took her chances on the lottery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had no other idea how else to overcome poverty, so I tried lotto,\u201d the 24-year-old woman was quoted by Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) chair Jose Ferdinand Rojas II as saying.<\/p>\n<p>The young woman met with Rojas at the PCSO office yesterday after she finally hit it big; winning the P32 million prize in the 6\/42 lotto\u2019s December 23, 2014 draw.<\/p>\n<p>According to Rojas, the woman, who is still unmarried, would constantly use the same numbers \u2013 derived from the birthdates oh her family members \u2013whenever she would purchase a P20 lottery ticket with money saved up from carrying out menial errands for her neighbors.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the errand girl disclosed plans of putting up a business, as well as helping her siblings finish their schooling, with the prize money.<\/p>\n<p>Rojas noted that the young woman is the 2,005th lotto millionaire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With no other idea how to escape poverty, a young woman working as an errand girl in Quezon City did &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":35451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ph","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37579","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=37579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}