{"id":191102,"date":"2020-02-05T14:50:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=191102"},"modified":"2020-02-05T14:50:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:50:42","slug":"12-increase-in-nd-lottery-ticket-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=191102","title":{"rendered":"12% increase in ND lottery ticket sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-127050\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/NDLottery.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"133\" \/>(AP) Big jackpots during the last fiscal year led to a 12% increase in North Dakota lottery ticket sales and the second highest in state history.<\/p>\n<p>Lottery director Randy Miller says North Dakota gamblers wagered $35.3 million on lottery games for the fiscal year that ended June 30. That\u2019s down from a record $35.7 million in fiscal 2016.<\/p>\n<p>A total of $14.2 million in prizes was paid out to North Dakota players, which was up from $9 million the previous fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Most lottery profits go to the state\u2019s general treasury, with smaller portions set aside to provide counseling for gambling addicts and for drug enforcement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(AP) Big jackpots during the last fiscal year led to a 12% increase in North Dakota lottery ticket sales and the second highest in state history. Lottery director Randy Miller says North Dakota gamblers wagered $35.3 million on lottery games for the fiscal year that ended June 30. That\u2019s down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":104444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=191102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191103,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191102\/revisions\/191103"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=191102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=191102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=191102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}