{"id":5499,"date":"2013-07-16T12:12:53","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T19:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=5499"},"modified":"2013-07-15T22:49:42","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T05:49:42","slug":"52-weeks-of-blogging-with-a-purpose-if-i-were-to-win-the-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=5499","title":{"rendered":"52 Weeks of Blogging with a Purpose: If I Were To Win the Lottery…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The topic for this week: if I were to win the lottery…<\/p>\n

[+] I’d take the cash option.<\/strong> I’m with Becky<\/a> on this one. It’s more money than I think I’d ever see in my life and I would be investing it so that the amount grows over time, especially if it was hundreds of millions.<\/p>\n

[+] I would pay off all our debt and that of my parents and in-laws.<\/strong> Both sets of parents made a lot of sacrifices for my husband and I and it’s the least we could do to help them out. As for our debt, it would be nice to wipe the slate clean and not have a car payment, student loans, or credit card bills.<\/p>\n

[+] I would set up a trust for Daniel.<\/strong> Best case, he will have something to help out when he gets older. Worst case, it would fund his care if something happened to Jon or me.<\/p>\n

[+] I would re-train as a respiratory therapist.<\/strong> I actually do better when I am working because it gives me some structure and I’d love to be able to do something I love. Unfortunately, this means re-training so I’d like to be able to do so without having to figure out financial aid.<\/p>\n

[+] I would give a huge chunk away.<\/strong> I would definitely tithe it but I’d also want to do things like build schools in third world countries, help to re-hire laid-off teachers in Sacramento, fund a preeclampsia<\/a> study, fund autism research, and make a large number of Kiva<\/a> loans. I’d also help out a bunch of families with their adoption expenses.<\/p>\n

I don’t think I’ve ever bought a lottery ticket on my own but it’s nice to dream sometimes.<\/p>\n

Now go see Becky<\/a> and what everyone else<\/a> would do if they won the lottery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The topic for this week: if I were to win the lottery… [+] I’d take the cash option. I’m with Becky on this one. It’s more money than I think I’d ever see in my life and I would be … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[1,37,2,41,25,7,44,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-daniel","category-faith","category-food-drink","category-health","category-memes-and-link-ups","category-reeces-rainbow","category-the-a-word"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-1qH","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5499"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5501,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions\/5501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}