{"id":47294,"date":"1998-03-10T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1998-03-10T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/taxi-driver-wins-rd29-9-million-playing-lotto\/"},"modified":"1998-03-10T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1998-03-10T01:43:56","slug":"taxi-driver-wins-rd29-9-million-playing-lotto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/03\/10\/taxi-driver-wins-rd29-9-million-playing-lotto\/","title":{"rendered":"Taxi driver wins RD$29.9 million playing Lotto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and neighbors of 44-year old Alcibiades Mari&ntilde;ez Espinosa saw him for only half an hour after the taxi driver won RD$29.9 million by guessing the Lotto. Mari&ntilde;ez moved to an unknown address with his 17 year old son Oscar Eduardo and 12-year old son Alcibiades. A third son, 4-year old Jos&eacute;, and mother Flores Cuevas, live in New York. Hoy newspaper reported they will be back in Santo Domingo to formally receive the prize money. Mar&iacute;&ntilde;ez worked as a taxi driver for the Taxi Leo company and lived in the slum area of La Chivera, in the Cristo Rey section. He filled out the winning ticket at a liquor store in Villa Mella. Hoy reports that he said he would buy a house with the money, and then decide what to do with the rest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends and neighbors of 44-year old Alcibiades Mari&ntilde;ez Espinosa saw him for only half an hour after the taxi driver won RD$29.9 million by guessing the Lotto. Mari&ntilde;ez moved to an unknown address with his 17 year old son Oscar Eduardo and 12-year old son Alcibiades. A third son, 4-year old Jos&eacute;, and mother Flores &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/03\/10\/taxi-driver-wins-rd29-9-million-playing-lotto\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47294"}],"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=47294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}