{"id":627047,"date":"2026-07-10T05:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=829830"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:30:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:30:21","slug":"an-iowa-it-worker-69-won-2-million-in-mega-millions-and-retired-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/10\/an-iowa-it-worker-69-won-2-million-in-mega-millions-and-retired-immediately\/","title":{"rendered":"An Iowa It Worker, 69, Won $2 Million in Mega Millions and Retired Immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/an-iowa-it-worker-69-won-2-million-in-mega-millions-and-retired-immediately-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Money and lottery tickets.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Debra Bickle, a 69-year-old IT worker in Waterloo, Iowa, matched the first five Mega Millions numbers on June 5, earning $2 million while missing the $368 million jackpot by one number. She retired immediately instead of waiting until year\u2019s end, and says the money will go toward home renovations and helping cover her grandchildren\u2019s education. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Debra Bickle, a 69-year-old IT worker in Waterloo, Iowa, matched the first five Mega Millions numbers on June 5, earning $2 million while missing the $368 million jackpot by one number. She retired immediately instead of waiting until year\u2019s end, and says the money will go toward home renovations and helping cover her grandchildren\u2019s education. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":627048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-627047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}