{"id":34294,"date":"2025-02-25T11:55:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/overjoyed-us-lottery-winner-pledges-to-give-part-of-328-5m-prize-to-non-profits\/"},"modified":"2025-02-25T11:55:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T11:55:32","slug":"overjoyed-us-lottery-winner-pledges-to-give-part-of-328-5m-prize-to-non-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/overjoyed-us-lottery-winner-pledges-to-give-part-of-328-5m-prize-to-non-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Overjoyed\u2019: US lottery winner pledges to give part of $328.5m prize to non-profits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abbas Shafii says he plans to travel, invest and share Powerball prize with non-profits \u2018close to [his] heart\u2019<\/p>\n<p>What would you do if you won hundreds of millions of dollars playing the lottery? A 79-year-old man from Beaverton, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/oregon\">Oregon<\/a>, gets to answer that question after recently collecting a $328.5m Powerball jackpot drawn on 18 January.<\/p>\n<p>Abbas Shafii issued a statement saying he plans to spend the <a href=\"https:\/\/portalseven.com\/lottery\/us_jackpot_winners.jsp?state=Oregon\">third-largest such prize<\/a> in his state\u2019s history traveling, making investments and sharing his \u201cgood fortune with non-profit organizations that are close to [his] heart\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/25\/powerball-prize-winner-oregon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbas Shafii says he plans to travel, invest and share Powerball prize with non-profits \u2018close to [his] heart\u2019 What would you do if you won hundreds of millions of dollars playing the lottery? A 79-year-old man from Beaverton, Oregon, gets to answer that question after recently collecting a $328.5m Powerball jackpot drawn on 18 January. &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Overjoyed\u2019: US lottery winner pledges to give part of $328.5m prize to non-profits\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/25\/overjoyed-us-lottery-winner-pledges-to-give-part-of-328-5m-prize-to-non-profits\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Overjoyed\u2019: US lottery winner pledges to give part of $328.5m prize to non-profits\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}