{"id":1681,"date":"2005-06-17T01:21:31","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T05:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2005\/06\/grounded\/"},"modified":"2005-06-17T01:21:31","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T05:21:31","slug":"grounded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/grounded\/","title":{"rendered":"Grounded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What would you get if you won the lottery?  I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2005\/06\/16\/national\/main702342.shtml\">this guy<\/a> has got it right [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A man who won a $220.3 million Powerball lottery jackpot \ufffd the second-largest single-ticket Powerball winning \ufffd plans to invest the money and become a billionaire.<br \/>\nBrad Duke, a 33-year-old regional fitness director for a health club chain, said he hopes to build a $1 billion portfolio within 15 years.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\n<i>Other than a high-end racing bicycle<\/i>, Duke has no plans for any large purchases.<br \/>\n&#8220;One of my goals is keeping my feet on the ground, not forgetting who I am and where I came from and staying active in the things I like now, like biking, the fitness industry, camping and rafting with my friends,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Keeping my feet on the ground does not include going out and buying a yacht.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>With that kind of money, he can afford to get me one too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/grounded\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Grounded\"><p>What would you get if you won the lottery? I think this guy has got it right [emphasis added]: A man who won a $220.3 million Powerball lottery jackpot \ufffd the second-largest single-ticket Powerball winning \ufffd plans to invest the money and become a billionaire. Brad Duke, a 33-year-old regional fitness director for a health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}