{"id":28671,"date":"2011-07-19T04:07:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T04:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amharic.thehabesha.com\/?p=1362"},"modified":"2022-03-17T06:53:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T13:53:14","slug":"ethiopian-man-wins-238000-in-virginia-pick-4-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/?p=28671","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Man wins $238,000 in Virginia Pick 4 Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>onas says the winnings will help put his sons through college. (Photo: Virginia Lottery) <\/em><br \/>\nWhen the children of an Alexandria restaurant owner graduate from college, they&#8217;ll have the numbers 3-6-2-3 to thank for it.<br \/>\nThanks to those four digits, in that exact order, Alemayehu Yonas is $238,000 richer &#8211; and it all started after winning $25 from a Virginia Lottery Scratcher.<\/p>\n<p>Yonas originally won the $25 off a Scratcher he bought from the 7-Eleven on South George Mason Drive in Bailey&#8217;s Crossroads to purchase 25 $1 Pick 4 tickets, marking off the numbers 3, 6, 2 and 3 on each of them. He did the same thing on 26 more tickets he bought for the same drawing.<\/p>\n<p>On July 14, the day he played each of those tickets, the winning numbers were 3-6-2-3, and Yonas walked away with $238,900 in winnings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is my hobby,&#8221; Yonas, who owns the Abay Market restaurant in Falls Church, calmly told Virginia Lottery officials.<\/p>\n<p>Yonas also said, as mentioned, that the winnings were going to help put his sons through college. He also gave $2,700 to the clerk at the 7-Eleven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>onas says the winnings will help put his sons through college. (Photo: Virginia Lottery) When the children of an Alexandria restaurant owner graduate from college, they&#8217;ll have the numbers 3-6-2-3 to thank for it. Thanks to those four digits, in that exact order, Alemayehu Yonas is $238,000 richer &#8211; and it all started after winning $25 from a Virginia Lottery Scratcher. Yonas originally won the $25 off a Scratcher he bought from the 7-Eleven on South George Mason Drive in Bailey&#8217;s Crossroads to purchase 25 $1 Pick 4 tickets, marking off the numbers 3, 6, 2 and 3 on each<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amharic.zehabesha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}