{"id":1695,"date":"2008-03-11T17:23:15","date_gmt":"2008-03-11T23:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2008-03-11T17:23:15","modified_gmt":"2008-03-11T23:23:15","slug":"lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Me to the hubby the other night: &#8220;Your mission this week is to win the lottery. Should your mission fail, I will self destruct.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The thing is, I don&#8217;t need 227 million dollars like that one couple who recently won (and who couldn&#8217;t even crack a smile about it; what&#8217;s up with that?). No one needs that much money. I&#8217;d give a lot of it away to charity. A few million would be enough for us to quit our jobs and live comfortably off the interest. We&#8217;d travel, take the kids to cool destinations, and just enjoy life without all the worries that come from not having enough money to do what your heart desires. We&#8217;d also get a bigger house so I could have the game room I&#8217;ve always wanted (and maybe even an indoor pool). <\/p>\n<p>But the best part? The house would have a detached guest house so I could foster animals for adoption without worrying about the boy&#8217;s allergies and asthma. I&#8217;d also photograph them for free for the adoption websites so I could help them find permanent homes. <\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s my simple dream.<\/p>\n<p>Now make it happen, Joe. <\/p>\n<p>No pressure or anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Me to the hubby the other night: &#8220;Your mission this week is to win the lottery. Should your mission fail, I will self destruct.&#8221; The thing is, I don&#8217;t need 227 million dollars like that one couple who recently won (and who couldn&#8217;t even crack a smile about it; what&#8217;s up with that?). No one needs that much money. I&#8217;d give a lot of it away to charity. A few million would be enough for us to quit our jobs and live comfortably off the interest. We&#8217;d travel, take the kids to cool destinations, and just enjoy life without all the worries that come from not having enough money to do what your heart desires. We&#8217;d also get a bigger house so I could have the game room I&#8217;ve always wanted (and maybe even an indoor pool). But the best part? The house would have a detached guest house so <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=1695\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amusing","category-life","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}