{"id":356237,"date":"2026-07-29T14:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356237\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T14:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:05:16","slug":"florida-lottery-winner-lands-800-million-mega-millions-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356237\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida lottery winner lands $800 million Mega Millions jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Florida lottery winner lands $800 million Mega Millions jackpot<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0ef9e7e2-0673-4d77-92c5-22a1e3663de5_1697751930.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Allison Petro\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>Florida \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A Florida ticket has won last night&#8217;s $800 million Mega Millions jackpot, making someone in the Sunshine State a multi-millionaire.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The winning numbers were 34, 48, 49, 59, 70, and a Mega Ball of 12.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The ticket was sold in Wawa located at 4510 State Road 70 East in Bradenton.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">The winner will be able to choose between annual payments or a cash option of more than $344 million.   <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">The Mega Millions jackpot will now reset to $50 million ahead of the next drawing on Friday.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Additionally, Wednesday&#8217;s Powerball drawing will offer another chance to win big, with an estimated jackpot of $663 million.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">The cash value of the Powerball prize is more than $290 million, and the winning numbers will be drawn at 11 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida lottery winner lands $800 million Mega Millions jackpot Florida \u2014 A Florida ticket has won last night&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[89135,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-356237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-fields","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}