{"id":76248,"date":"2017-11-30T11:28:16","date_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76248"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:28:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:28:16","slug":"terry-mcclelland-army-veteran-to-donate-lottery-windfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76248","title":{"rendered":"Terry McClelland; Army veteran to donate lottery windfall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terry McClelland, an Army veteran in Statesville, North Carolina, has pledged his lottery winnings to help folks with substance abuse problems, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charlotteobserver.com\/news\/local\/article187232518.html\">Charlotte Observer<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Terry McClelland and his wife intend to use the proceeds from his lucky scratch-off ticket win to start a non-profit counseling center aimed at freeing people from their addictions \u2013 his wife\u2019s lifelong dream.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is what I was put on this earth to do,\u201d McClelland\u2019s wife, also named Terry, told lottery officials. She is is pursuing her doctorate in psychology. \u201cIt\u2019s my calling,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is why I did all those years of college. There\u2019s people out there that need something, and now we are going to be able to help and bless someone else.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>After the government took their share of his $250,000, McClelland ended up with $173,754.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry McClelland, an Army veteran in Statesville, North Carolina, has pledged his lottery winnings to help &hellip; <a title=\"Terry McClelland; Army veteran to donate lottery windfall\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76248\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Terry McClelland; Army veteran to donate lottery windfall<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}