{"id":262,"date":"2005-10-04T01:50:10","date_gmt":"2005-10-04T08:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2005-12-21T22:55:02","modified_gmt":"2005-12-22T06:55:02","slug":"lottery-and-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/04\/lottery-and-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Lottery and Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow (Oct. 5th) is the day when the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usdoj.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Dept. of Justice<\/a> is opening up the &#8220;2007 Diversity Visa Lottery&#8221; (a.k.a. <i>Green Card Lottery<\/i>, or <i>DV2007<\/i>) for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvlottery.state.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">electronic submission<\/a>. Between friends of Grace and I, we must know a couple dozen people who received their U.S. Permanent Resident status through the lottery. Now how can we be so unlucky every year? <\/p>\n<p>Better luck this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow (Oct. 5th) is the day when the U.S. Dept. of Justice is opening up the &#8220;2007 Diversity Visa Lottery&#8221; (a.k.a. Green Card Lottery, or DV2007) for electronic submission. Between friends of Grace and I, we must know a couple dozen people who received their U.S. Permanent Resident status through the lottery. Now how can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/04\/lottery-and-luck\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lottery and Luck&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-day-to-day-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p54IqZ-4e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wiredatom.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}