{"id":8348,"date":"2010-11-15T00:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T23:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=8348"},"modified":"2010-11-13T02:12:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T01:12:40","slug":"canadian-couple-gives-lottery-winnings-to-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/11\/canadian-couple-gives-lottery-winnings-to-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Couple Gives Lottery Winnings to Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple in Nova Scotia who won $11.2-million in a lottery this summer has decided to give most of their winnings to charity, reports <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.aol.ca\/ca\/article\/nova-scotia-lottery-win-give-away\/19703150\" >AOL News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Allen and Violet Large, a retired couple who say they are living comfortably, told news agencies that winning the money was a hassle. They decided to give some to family and friends, and the rest went to charities such as hospitals where Ms. Large had received cancer treatments, churches, and organizations including the Red Cross and Salvation Army.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Large says giving the money away simply felt good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat money that we won was nothing,\u201d Mr. Large adds. \u201cWe have each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/philanthropy.com\/blogs\/philanthropytoday\/canadian-couple-gives-lottery-winnings-to-charity\/28580\" >Go to Original \u2013 philanthropy.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple in Nova Scotia who won $11.2-million in a lottery this summer has decided to give most of their winnings to charity, reports AOL News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}