{"id":369,"date":"2006-04-18T12:08:06","date_gmt":"2006-04-18T17:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/?p=369"},"modified":"2020-01-02T12:17:39","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T17:17:39","slug":"luck-takes-more-than-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/luck-takes-more-than-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Luck takes more than luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/do-you-feel-lucky\/\">I posted about a study<\/a> that looked at people who think they&#8217;re lucky. The study found that self-described &#8220;lucky&#8221; people don&#8217;t actually beat the odds in an objective sense. But because they tend to be extroverted and open, they&#8217;re more likely to pick up cues and recognize opportunities, so they do have &#8220;luckier&#8221; lives.<\/p>\n<p>Now comes a new twist, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/nation\/2006-04-17-powerball-kentucky_x.htm\">news story about a Powerball ticket<\/a> worth $853,492 that has expired, unclaimed.<\/p>\n<p>Somebody out there was lucky. But they missed an opportunity, and that made all the difference.<\/p>\n<p>(There&#8217;s another unclaimed ticket for the same amount, purchased in Colorado, that expires at midnight tonight . . . )<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I posted about a study that looked at people who think they&#8217;re lucky. The study found that self-described &#8220;lucky&#8221; people don&#8217;t actually beat the odds in an objective sense. But because they tend to be extroverted and open, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/luck-takes-more-than-luck\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[955,956,691,954],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-expired-lottery-ticket","tag-lottery","tag-luck","tag-powerball"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5772,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/5772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirstenmortensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}