{"id":299543,"date":"2026-02-24T09:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/299543\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T09:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T09:40:09","slug":"napier-man-eyes-earlier-than-expected-retirement-after-winning-1m-lotto-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/299543\/","title":{"rendered":"Napier man eyes earlier than expected retirement after winning $1m Lotto prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhich would have been amazing,\u201d the man said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWhen they told me it was $1m, I could not believe it \u2013 this is life-changing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">He struggled to sleep on Sunday and was up with his family until the early hours talking about the prize.<\/p>\n<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThis win means we can pay off our mortgage, and I can think about retiring a little earlier than I thought I could \u2013 I feel very lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"XwsInylahQtJnSbA\" style=\"display:none\">The man said he and his family haven\u2019t celebrated the win yet, but plan to in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhich would have been amazing,\u201d the man said. \u201cWhen they told me it was $1m, I could not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[7495,1443,74,3602,5346,2753,6093,10506,5158,17768,1132,3607,111,43,139,69,105531,10512,294,8667,312,131,5662,20110,18457],"class_list":["post-299543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-1m","tag-about","tag-after","tag-earlier","tag-expected","tag-eyes","tag-little","tag-lotto","tag-man","tag-means","tag-million","tag-napier","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-originally","tag-prize","tag-retirement","tag-retiring","tag-says","tag-than","tag-think","tag-thought","tag-winning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}