{"id":1227,"date":"2012-11-18T11:17:34","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T11:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/up\/wordpress\/2012\/11\/18\/woman-who-won-23-million-lottery-forgot-ticket-in-car\/"},"modified":"2022-10-29T15:02:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T14:02:29","slug":"woman-who-won-23-million-lottery-forgot-ticket-in-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/woman-who-won-23-million-lottery-forgot-ticket-in-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman who won $23 million lottery forgot ticket in car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\"><strong>A California woman who didn&#8217;t know she had a jackpot-winning $23 million lottery ticket in her car has come forward to claim her fortune.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Palmdale woman&#8217;s daughter recognized her from a newspaper photo of the supposed winner, captured on the liquor store&#8217;s surveillance camera, according to the San Bernardino County Sun .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More details about the woman&#8217;s identity were to be announced Friday, lottery officials said. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><strong> &#8220;She just never checked the ticket,&#8221; lottery spokesman Alex Traverso told the newspaper. &#8220;Her daughter took a picture of her photo in the newspaper and sent it to her mother, she went to her car and found the ticket.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The woman bought the ticket in May, and with 180 days to claim the prize, she only had until Nov. 26 to cash in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it hadn&#8217;t been claimed, the millions would have gone to California schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A $52 million jackpot winner in Fremont was found in August by a similar public appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He and his wife saw a picture of him on the news that night and came in the next day to claim the prize,&#8221; Traverso said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The winning ticket was sold at Michael&#8217;s Market and Liquor, where store manager Ben Sadi says the sale has been a stroke of good luck for the store&#8217;s owners. The store received a bonus of one half percent of the prize, or $115,000, for selling the winning ticket.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We sold the ticket the third week after our official day of opening the store,&#8221; said Sadi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since news of the winning ticket got out, business has picked up a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There are a lot of people that drove a long way to come buy tickets here,&#8221; said Sadi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In the last fiscal year, officials say more than $20.5 million in cash prizes went unclaimed.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A California woman who didn&#8217;t know she had a jackpot-winning $23 million lottery ticket in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1226,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,56],"tags":[1430,1435,1433,68,1432,1431,1434,897,300,1429],"class_list":["post-1227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creazyworld","category-news","tag-1430","tag-car","tag-forgot","tag-in","tag-lottery","tag-million","tag-ticket","tag-who","tag-woman","tag-won"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3066,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1227\/revisions\/3066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.egeve.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}