{"id":5375,"date":"2021-01-22T16:37:38","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2021-01-22T16:41:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T21:41:02","slug":"jackpot-mega-millions-hits-a-billion-lotto-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/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:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/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:\/\/brick.shorebeat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/mega_millions_nj.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"413\" \/><\/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\/tomsriver\/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":784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-toms-river-life"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/mega-millions-d86b2afced6edb9b.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/tomsriver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}