{"id":24732,"date":"2009-12-08T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/garbage-turned-into-treasure\/"},"modified":"2009-12-08T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T01:43:56","slug":"garbage-turned-into-treasure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2009\/12\/08\/garbage-turned-into-treasure\/","title":{"rendered":"Garbage turned into treasure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A 57-year old Dominican father of two makes a living by collecting discarded prize tickets at betting parlors in Manhattan. The New York Times tells his story in its 8 December issue. &#8220;For the past 10 years, Jesus Leonardo has been cleaning up at an OTB parlor in Midtown Manhattan, cashing in, by his own count, nearly half a million dollars&#8217; worth of winning tickets from wagers on thoroughbred races across the country,&#8221; reports the newspaper. The report says he makes an average US$45,000 a year going through the collected discarded tickets, and even pays taxes on the earnings. <\/p>\n<p> See: www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/08\/sports\/08otb.html?_r=2&#038;th&#038;emc=th<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 57-year old Dominican father of two makes a living by collecting discarded prize tickets at betting parlors in Manhattan. The New York Times tells his story in its 8 December issue. &#8220;For the past 10 years, Jesus Leonardo has been cleaning up at an OTB parlor in Midtown Manhattan, cashing in, by his own &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2009\/12\/08\/garbage-turned-into-treasure\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[228,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}