{"id":3145,"date":"2008-01-05T17:58:53","date_gmt":"2008-01-05T17:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=3145"},"modified":"2008-01-05T17:58:53","modified_gmt":"2008-01-05T17:58:53","slug":"the_100m_giveaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=3145","title":{"rendered":"The $100M Giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/ed_wallace\/story\/384038.html\">Ed Wallace<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Put down your highlighter and don\u2019t bother checking your lottery tickets, because the State of Texas has announced a $100 million winner. Only it\u2019s actually 30,000 drivers living in ozone goal non-attainment areas, and it will be doled out $3,000 at a time. And if you or your family are constrained by a certain income level, if you drive a vehicle 10 years old or older that\u2019s been registered in the county for over a year and passed an emissions test up to 15 months ago, yet failed one recently, then the state is willing to pay you $3,000 to scrap your vehicle and get something newer. All in the name of clean air.<br \/>\nConsidering that Texas is notoriously clutch-fisted with money for public projects, particularly when the bank account starts with $100 million, this is big news. Especially if your vehicle\u2019s more than 10 years old and has extremely high mileage \u2013 or the kind that brings virtually nothing when you go to trade it in \u2013 this is a money-for-nothing proposition that can benefit you tremendously. So, before we go on with today\u2019s column, check out the rules for this program at www.driveacleanmachine.com, and then call 1-800-898-9103 to apply for your voucher.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/ed_wallace\/story\/384038.html\">Ed Wallace<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Put down your highlighter and don\u2019t bother checking your lottery tickets, because the State of Texas has announced a $100 million winner. Only it\u2019s actually 30,000 drivers living in ozone goal non-attainment areas, and it will be doled out $3,000 at a time. And if you or your family are constrained by a certain income level, if you drive a vehicle 10 years old or older that\u2019s been registered in the county for over a year and passed an emissions test up to 15 months ago, yet failed one recently, then the state is willing to pay you $3,000 to scrap your vehicle and get something newer. All in the name of clean air.<br \/>\nConsidering that Texas is notoriously clutch-fisted with money for public projects, particularly when the bank account starts with $100 million, this is big news. Especially if your vehicle\u2019s more than 10 years old and has extremely high mileage \u2013 or the kind that brings virtually nothing when you go to trade it in \u2013 this is a money-for-nothing proposition that can benefit you tremendously. So, before we go on with today\u2019s column, check out the rules for this program at www.driveacleanmachine.com, and then call 1-800-898-9103 to apply for your voucher.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,24,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}