{"id":312,"date":"2007-12-27T16:26:12","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T21:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/index.php\/?p=312"},"modified":"2007-12-27T16:28:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T21:28:31","slug":"i-have-a-192-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2007\/12\/27\/i-have-a-192-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"I have a 1:92 chance&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of winning $100 in the NC Lottery Merry Millionaire raffle set to occur in a few moments at 5PM EST.  This is because I bought two of the $20 tickets intending on giving one as a Christmas gift but I didn&#8217;t.  So, based up on the number of tickets sold = 368,000 divided by 2000 (the number of $100 winning tickets that will be drawn) my chances are 1:92.<\/p>\n<p>So thinking of this another way that&#8217;s 92:1 chance that I wasted $40.  That&#8217;s the way I&#8217;ll think about it for the next 34 minutes to avoid the disappointment of not beating the odds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;of winning $100 in the NC Lottery Merry Millionaire raffle set to occur in a few moments at 5PM EST. This is because I bought two of the $20 tickets intending on giving one as a Christmas gift but I didn&#8217;t. So, based up on the number of tickets sold = 368,000 divided by 2000 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2007\/12\/27\/i-have-a-192-chance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I have a 1:92 chance&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","category-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}