{"id":5468,"date":"2019-09-30T03:47:37","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-postcode-lottery\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:47:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:37","slug":"the-postcode-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-postcode-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Postcode Lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 4:4, \u201cI saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man\u2019s envy of his neighbor.  This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The lottery in the Netherlands must have seen some inspiration in this.  It came up with a variation called the &#8220;Postcode Lottery.&#8221;  ZIP codes specific to one street are picked randomly and everyone who lives on that street &#8212; and who bought a lottery ticket &#8212; splits the grand prize.  Sales went way up, and for an interesting reason.  It wasn\u2019t so much because everyone expected to win, but because they would hate to have their neighbors win while they sat it out.  If we can\u2019t get ahead of them, at least we don\u2019t want to end up BEHIND them.<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Adapted from &#8220;Selling a fantasy,&#8221; by Adam Piore, The Week magazine, September 6, 2013, page 44.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes 4:4, \u201cI saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man\u2019s envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.\u201d The lottery in the Netherlands must have seen some inspiration in this. It came up with a variation called the &#8220;Postcode Lottery.&#8221; ZIP codes specific to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3566,933,932,4780],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}