{"id":283796,"date":"2026-09-11T14:22:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283796\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T14:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T14:22:14","slug":"pittsburgh-area-man-with-ailing-wife-hits-big-lottery-jackpot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283796\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh-Area Man With Ailing Wife Hits Big Lottery Jackpot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corso recently retired in May after running a small tire business.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI didn\u2019t really need the money,\u201d he said. \u201cBut it feels good to have it.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Despite the excitement of winning, his focus remained on his wife, whose birthday is September 11. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, her life is more important,\u201d he said. &#8220;This prize will help my wife fully retire.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Corso also looks forward to enjoying time with his seven grandchildren and two great\u2011grandchildren, saying he\u2019s grateful for the unexpected blessing and the people who matter most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corso recently retired in May after running a small tire business. \u201cI didn\u2019t really need the money,\u201d he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[73,75,74],"class_list":["post-283796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283796\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}