{"id":11120,"date":"2018-10-20T07:32:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-20T14:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=11120"},"modified":"2018-10-20T09:33:52","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T16:33:52","slug":"no-one-won-the-latest-mega-millions-drawing-the-jackpot-climbs-to-1-6-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=11120","title":{"rendered":"No one won the latest Mega Millions drawing, the jackpot climbs to $1.6 billion."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\">No one won the latest Mega Millions drawing, meaning the jackpot climbs to a staggering $1.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">Mega Millions officials say no tickets matched all six numbers to claim the estimated $1 billion grand prize in Friday night\u2019s drawing.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2018\/10\/19\/mega-millions-hits-1-billion-jackpot\/1696048002\/\">The numbers were\u00a0<\/a>15, 23, 53, 65, 70 and Mega Ball 7.The next drawing will be Tuesday. The estimated jackpot for that drawing would tie the largest lottery prize in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>2 tickets in Illinois matched 5 of the 6 numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">The jackpot has been growing since July, when a group of California office workers won $543 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">It costs $2 to play the game, but the odds of winning the jackpot aren\u2019t good. The chance of matching all six numbers and taking home the grand prize is one in 302.5 million.<\/p>\n<p id=\"article-body-p-last\" class=\"p-text p-text-last\">Mega Millions is played in 44 states as well as Washington, D.C., and the U.S. Virgin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one won the latest Mega&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11121,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11120\/revisions\/11121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}