{"id":45000,"date":"2015-03-17T16:35:15","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T08:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=45000"},"modified":"2015-03-17T16:35:15","modified_gmt":"2015-03-17T08:35:15","slug":"mom-from-qc-slum-brings-home-p50m-lotto-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/03\/17\/mom-from-qc-slum-brings-home-p50m-lotto-jackpot\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom from QC slum brings home P50M lotto jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_40899\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40899\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pcso-lotto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40899 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pcso-lotto-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"pcso lotto\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pcso-lotto-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/pcso-lotto.jpg 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-40899\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Facebook Photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA &#8212; A 48-year-old mother who is living in the slums of Quezon City won more than P50-million jackpot prize in the March 4 draw of the Grand Lotto 6\/55 lottery.<\/p>\n<p>The winner, whose name was kept under wraps, is a mother two and is making up for her family&#8217;s needs by washing other people&#8217;s clothes.<\/p>\n<p>The mother, who had been playing the lottery for the last two decades, claimed her prize of\u00a0P50,689,948 at the PCSO head office in Mandaluyong on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>She paid two tickets worth P40 to win the lottery with the combination of\u00a007-08-10-19-48-55, according to the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) acting chair and general manager, Jose Ferdinand Rojas II.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t know what else we could do to help ourselves out of poverty,\u201d Rojas quoted the winner as saying.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy husband is only a carpenter and we can\u2019t afford to send our children to school,&#8221; she said.\u00a0\u201cThat\u2019s why I tried my luck in the lottery,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Rojas added that the winner said she got the lucky numbers after combining the ages and birth dates of her family members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA &#8212; A 48-year-old mother who is living in the slums of Quezon City won more than P50-million jackpot prize &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":40899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ph","mauthors-lei-fontamillas","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45000","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=45000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}