{"id":4852,"date":"2016-01-12T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/?p=1958616"},"modified":"2016-01-12T12:00:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T12:00:23","slug":"the-fascinating-math-behind-why-you-wont-win-powerball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2016\/01\/12\/the-fascinating-math-behind-why-you-wont-win-powerball\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fascinating Math Behind Why You Won\u2019t Win Powerball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"rss_thumbnail\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/powerball-odds-201601062056160000-660x440.jpg\" alt=\"The Fascinating Math Behind Why You Won&#8217;t Win Powerball\" \/><\/div><p>The odds of winning tomorrow's Powerball are barely better than having your name randomly pulled out of a hat filled with the name of everybody in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/01\/the-fascinating-math-behind-why-you-wont-win-powerball\/\">The Fascinating Math Behind Why You Won&#8217;t Win Powerball<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">WIRED<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/powerball-odds-201601062056160000-660x440.jpg\" alt=\"The Fascinating Math Behind Why You Won&rsquo;t Win Powerball\"><\/div>\n<p>The odds of winning tomorrow&#8217;s Powerball are barely better than having your name randomly pulled out of a hat filled with the name of everybody in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2016\/01\/the-fascinating-math-behind-why-you-wont-win-powerball\/\">The Fascinating Math Behind Why You Won&rsquo;t Win Powerball<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">WIRED<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[450,1046,1103,4,210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-money","category-powerball","category-science","category-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4853,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4852\/revisions\/4853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}