{"id":13532,"date":"2018-10-22T12:02:12","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/?p=13532"},"modified":"2018-10-22T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T19:45:50","slug":"how-much-can-i-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/how-much-can-i-win\/","title":{"rendered":"How Much Can I Win?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13533 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Lottery-tickets-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Lottery-tickets-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Lottery-tickets-965x1024.jpg 965w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Lottery-tickets-768x815.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Lottery-tickets-640x679.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Lottery-tickets-1280x1358.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Mega Millions Lottery is now in the $BILLIONS, what are your chances? If you rolled a die and hit 1 eleven times in a row, then you have some idea of the odds. With a story in mind, last Friday I drove to Tennessee from Haleyville just to see what the fuss was all about. round trip was about 3 hours. Just across and within feet of the Tennessee State line on Highway 43, I went in to make a purchase. It was very easy, once I was\u00a0past all the people who had purchased and were checking their scratch-off tickets. The Mega Millions Lottery tickets were $2 each and I learned I could either fill out a card with all my favorite numbers, or I could let the computer select for me. I opted\u00a0for the computer selection.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-13535 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/LOTTERY1-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/LOTTERY1-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/LOTTERY1-1024x469.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/LOTTERY1-768x352.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/LOTTERY1-640x293.jpg 640w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/LOTTERY1-1280x587.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So far, no one has won and the prediction is, the total will be over $2 Billion by the Tuesday night drawing. Will I go back for more? Still thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13534 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/safe_image-300x156.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/safe_image-300x156.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/safe_image.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Who gets all the money paid in? It&#8217;s up to the sate, but in Tennessee, it goes to education. Alabama remains the only state in the south not having a lottery, but that is like saying Haleyville was dry until it went wet a few ago. I saw a parking lot full of vehicles at the \u00a0Tennessee convenience\u00a0store where the tickets are sold, all with Alabama tags. My understanding is, a lottery may become a reality in Alabama sometime after the election in November. At least the citizens may have a chance to decide. Whether you believe we should have a lottery or not, the truth is, Alabama is losing a tremendous amount of money every day to our surrounding states. Let the folks in Montgomery know how you feel. I think it&#8217;s time we had a vote. \u00a0That&#8217;s my personal opinion, let your legislators know yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mega Millions Lottery is now in the $BILLIONS, what are your chances? If you rolled a die and hit 1 eleven times in a row, then you have some idea of the odds. With a story in mind, last Friday I drove to Tennessee from Haleyville just to see what the fuss was all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13540,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532\/revisions\/13540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hbtv.us\/News-for-Haleyville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}