{"id":23830,"date":"2017-01-23T15:50:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T23:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23830"},"modified":"2017-01-23T15:50:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T23:50:17","slug":"contests-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/contests-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Lucky&#8211;Winning Contests in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/lotwhe.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Author C. MacDonald says, &#8220;Long before Lottery Tickets, there were all sorts of contests to win prizes in California.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/entertainment\/contests.html\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>However, few contests have been as popular as the lottery.\u00a0This weekend visitors at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/chinese-monterey-park.html\">Monterey Park Lunar New Year Celebration<\/a>\u00a0can spend $20 to spin the wheel for Scratcher prizes at the California Lottery booth. Since its inception in 1984 with the passing of Prop. 37, the California State Lottery Act has proven that people like to play and win prizes. In Fiscal Year 2015-16 sales increased 13.5% to a record-setting $6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>California Lottery&#8217;s mission to\u00a0provide supplemental monies for\u00a0public education without the imposition of additional or increased taxes amounts to less than 1.5% of public education&#8217;s overall needs.\u00a0Still, California AB 142 contributions to education\u00a0have amounted\u00a0to\u00a0$31 billion for\u00a0public schools\u00a0in 21 years, and hundreds of contest winners\u00a0have become\u00a0millionaires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author C. MacDonald says, &#8220;Long before Lottery Tickets, there were all sorts of contests to win prizes in California.&#8221; Read more&#8230;.&gt; However, few contests have been as popular as the lottery.\u00a0This weekend visitors at Monterey Park Lunar New Year Celebration\u00a0can spend $20 to spin the wheel for Scratcher prizes at the California Lottery booth. Since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23830"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}