{"id":107374,"date":"2022-09-10T17:46:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T17:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-virginia-man-thought-he-won-600-on-a-scratch-off-when-he-went-to-cash-it-in-officials-told-him-it-was-actually-1-million"},"modified":"2022-09-10T17:46:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T17:46:14","slug":"a-virginia-man-thought-he-won-600-on-a-scratch-off-when-he-went-to-cash-it-in-officials-told-him-it-was-actually-1-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/a-virginia-man-thought-he-won-600-on-a-scratch-off-when-he-went-to-cash-it-in-officials-told-him-it-was-actually-1-million","title":{"rendered":"A Virginia man thought he won $600 on a scratch-off. When he went to cash it in officials told him it was actually $1 million."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pile of $100 bills. Getty Images A Virginia man learned that he won $1 million while attempting to turn in a $600 prize. Jose Flores Velasquez learned about his prize from employees at the lottery customer service center. He told lottery officials that he might open a business with his new fortune. A Virginia man was met with a major surprise when he went to redeem what he thought was merely a $600 lottery prize but later learned that he actually won $1 million, state officials said. Jose Flores Velasquez purchased the 20X the Money scratch-off ticket from a grocery store in Annadale after work, per the Virginia Lottery on Tuesday. When he arrived at the lottery company&#8217;s customer service center, Velasquez was informed that his ticket was worth more than he had expected. &#8220;He had the choice of taking the full $1 million prize over 30 years or a one-time cash option of $759,878 before taxes,&#8221; lottery officials<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Flores Velasquez purchased the scratch ticket during a grocery store run after worker, per VA lottery officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,6,122],"class_list":["post-107374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-hobbies","tag-lifestyle","tag-lottery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}