{"id":374367,"date":"2026-07-15T18:41:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374367\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:41:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:41:11","slug":"bastrop-resident-claims-1-million-powerball-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/374367\/","title":{"rendered":"Bastrop resident claims $1 million Powerball prize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BASTROP, Texas \u2014 A Bastrop resident has claimed a $1 million prize from the July 8 Powerball drawing, Texas Lottery officials announced.<\/p>\n<p>The winning Quick Pick ticket was purchased at a Circle K store at 1483 W. State Highway 71 in Bastrop, according to the Texas Lottery. The winner chose to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/mopac-south-price-tag-climbs-by-more-than-400m-raising-toll-questions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ALSO | MoPac South price tag climbs by more than $400M, raising toll questions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The ticket matched all five white ball numbers drawn (12, 29, 37, 43 and 55) but not the red Powerball number, 18, earning the game&#8217;s second-tier prize.<\/p>\n<p>The Circle K location may be eligible for a $10,000 bonus through the Texas Lottery&#8217;s Retailer Bonus Program for selling the winning ticket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BASTROP, Texas \u2014 A Bastrop resident has claimed a $1 million prize from the July 8 Powerball drawing,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374368,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-374367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}