{"id":85535,"date":"2017-01-17T03:54:54","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T08:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=85535"},"modified":"2017-01-29T03:07:35","modified_gmt":"2017-01-29T08:07:35","slug":"saskatoon-man-finally-cashes-in-on-lottery-win-from-last-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/01\/17\/saskatoon-man-finally-cashes-in-on-lottery-win-from-last-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Saskatoon man finally cashes in on lottery win from last summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_85536\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85536\" style=\"width: 612px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Saskatoon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85536\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Saskatoon.png\" alt=\"(Photo: CLS Research Office\/Flickr)\" width=\"612\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Saskatoon.png 612w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Saskatoon-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-85536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/clsresoff\/5675502251\/in\/photolist-9Dwr66-8hP4Gw-FNyYfE-6yAy1G-t9yS7D-579SyW-8SyCJ8-s8C8nv-EXPSCu-rkyakL-FAV1Yy-hzuWZc-whrftV-szrG5Y-nb4Bob-5mwKrr-nb4yXQ-nb4rSV-nsxR52-nb4BPQ-5mwG2M-5mwHpr-579SGJ-5mwJ1e-5mAYsG-p7e826-p7cTyP-4SPQkb-iS47Xm-wgkMyQ-EXdqLt-8Yt22G-8SyAka-8SLjSy-dqpKax-iNM-FjYGtU-puB81n-71HdDD-ccRKcy-FGNbWw-FKcbcC-iNA-ng9vH9-4T7qs5-nhTHJg-55fTbo-8Syzoi-ivdeiT-cpox2N\">CLS Research Office\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SASKATOON\u2014A Saskatoon man who traded in snacks for lottery tickets has picked up a $5 million cheque for being the sole winner of a Lotto 649 draw last summer.<\/p>\n<p>Curtis Mooney jokingly told reporters on Monday that he is 45 and single\u2014&#8221;but not for long.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>People in Saskatoon, including Mooney&#8217;s father, had been wondering about the identity of the mystery millionaire who hit it big on the Aug. 31 draw.<\/p>\n<p>Mooney admits it takes him a long time to check his tickets and it wasn&#8217;t until Dec. 30 that his dad started bugging him to look into it.<\/p>\n<p>Mooney says he didn&#8217;t bother because he didn&#8217;t think it was possible, but on New Year&#8217;s Eve his father couldn&#8217;t stand it anymore and finally came to his house and insisted they look up the winning number on the computer.<\/p>\n<p>He says he started buying lottery tickets after his father encouraged him to put money he&#8217;d otherwise use for snacks towards something bigger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SASKATOON\u2014A Saskatoon man who traded in snacks for lottery tickets has picked up a $5 million cheque for being the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":85536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[13752,13754,13753],"class_list":["post-85535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-curtis-mooney","tag-lottery-winner","tag-saskatoon-man","mauthors-ckom","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85535","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}