{"id":266,"date":"2014-01-13T15:24:19","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T15:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnspry.com\/?p=266"},"modified":"2014-01-13T22:24:58","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T22:24:58","slug":"time-used-my-quote-about-lottery-sales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johnspry.com\/?p=266","title":{"rendered":"Time used my quote about lottery sales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time magazine used a quote from me in their story, &#8220;<a href=\"Lottery Tickets Selling at Record Numbers in Dozens of States | TIME.com http:\/\/business.time.com\/2012\/08\/23\/throwing-money-away-in-record-numbers-all-time-high-lottery-ticket-sales\/#ixzz2qI0PNrr3\" target=\"_blank\">Throwing Money Away in Record Numbers: All-Time High Lottery Ticket Sales<\/a>&#8221; by Brad Tuttle on August 23, 2012 about how lottery product innovation has increased lottery sales.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The lottery has been innovating,\u201d [University of St. Thomas business professor John] Spry said. \u201cOn the one hand you have $650 million jackpots. On the other hand, you can play a scratch game where you can win a $100,000. Different players like different profiles of risk. And the lottery has sort of over time learned what appeals to the different players.\u201d<\/p>\n<div>You can read the entire story here: <a href=\"http:\/\/business.time.com\/2012\/08\/23\/throwing-money-away-in-record-numbers-all-time-high-lottery-ticket-sales\/#ixzz2qI0lUVqo\">Lottery Tickets Selling at Record Numbers in Dozens of States<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time magazine used a quote from me in their story, &#8220;Throwing Money Away in Record Numbers: All-Time High Lottery Ticket Sales&#8221; by Brad Tuttle on August 23, 2012 about how lottery product innovation has increased lottery sales. The lottery has been innovating,\u201d [University of St. Thomas business professor John] Spry said. \u201cOn the one hand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lotteries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnspry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnspry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnspry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnspry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnspry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=266"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/johnspry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271,"href":"http:\/\/johnspry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266\/revisions\/271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnspry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnspry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnspry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}