{"id":17841,"date":"2015-07-08T17:29:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=17841"},"modified":"2015-07-08T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:29:12","slug":"lottery-winner-once-on-skid-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=17841","title":{"rendered":"Lottery Winner Once on Skid Row?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I notice that <a title=\"Ex-footballer Terry Bradbury scoops Lotto jackpot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-derbyshire-33442609\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a local ex-footballer has just won the lottery jackpot<\/a>. Terry Bradbury has won a cool \u00a35.5m. Good luck to the guy, who is now in his 70s &#8211; he has as much right to win as anyone else.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Lottery Logo\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/240;border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Lottery Logo\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/lottery1.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"240\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>The BBC, though, managed to dumb things down by declaring:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A former Chelsea midfielder &#8211; who made \u00a325 a week as a professional footballer in the 1950s &#8211; has scooped a \u00a35.5m Lotto jackpot.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Someone at the Beeb needs a lesson in maths and history if they\u2019re going to imply things that are simply incorrect. Someone earning \u00a325 a week in 1955 is not the same as someone earning \u00a325 a week in 2015. That \u00a325 would have bought as much then as around \u00a3600 does now, so Mr Bradbury was on a wage equivalent to more than \u00a335,000 per annum. Admittedly, this is nothing like what modern footballers get, but it\u2019s well above the average UK household 2015 income of \u00a326,500.<\/p>\n<p>But as I said at the start, good luck to him &#8211; he is as deserving as anyone else who wins the lottery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I notice that a local ex-footballer has just won the lottery jackpot. Terry Bradbury has won a cool \u00a35.5m. Good luck to the guy, who is now in his 70s &#8211; he has as much right to win as anyone else. The BBC, though, managed to dumb things down by declaring: A former Chelsea midfielder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}