{"id":17668,"date":"2021-01-22T16:36:59","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=17668"},"modified":"2021-01-22T16:39:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:39:15","slug":"jackpot-mega-millions-hits-a-billion-lotto-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/01\/jackpot-mega-millions-hits-a-billion-lotto-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Jackpot: Friday Night&#8217;s Mega Millions Drawing Hits A Billion, Lotto Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13559\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj-400x215.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj-640x344.jpg 640w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj-681x366.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a>New Jersey state lottery officials confirmed Friday afternoon that the jackpot for the multi-state Mega Millions game has reached $1 billion, giving residents just a few hours to get in on their chance to become a billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>The jackpot represents the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot in history, and the third-largest jackpot for all North American lottery games. The estimated cash value is $739.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s $1 billion Mega Millions drawing will be held at 11 p.m. All New Jersey Lottery Mega Millions tickets must be purchased before 10:45 p.m. to participate in the drawing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease remember to stay safe and socially distant if you choose to purchase lottery tickets and be sure to wear a mask and wash your hands,\u201d the statement from lottery officials said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2021\/01\/jackpot-mega-millions-hits-a-billion-lotto-officials-say\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 New Jersey state lottery officials confirmed Friday afternoon that the jackpot for the multi-state Mega Millions game has reached $1 billion, giving residents just a few hours to get in on their chance to become a billionaire. The jackpot represents the second-largest Mega Millions jackpot in history, and the third-largest jackpot for all North [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[24,876,942],"class_list":["post-17668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-mega-millions","tag-new-jersey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-4AY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}