{"id":2471,"date":"2015-05-17T22:13:25","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T06:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=2471"},"modified":"2015-05-17T22:13:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T06:13:25","slug":"a-fantasy-sports-fan-play-about-to-pay-1-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/a-fantasy-sports-fan-play-about-to-pay-1-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"A fantasy sports fan play about to pay $1 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  2015 is shaping up to be a big year for fantasy sports site DraftKings, but it may be just as big for a handful of players on the site.  <\/p>\n<p>  At some point this year, the company will cross the $1 billion mark for total prizes awarded since its 2012 launch. As if that werent enough, DraftKings will also be awarding more than $1 billion in 2015 alone.  <\/p>\n<p>  The draw of such big payouts is one of the reasons DraftKings more than 1 million members spend more than four hours per week playing all manner of fantasy sports on the site, from football to golf.<\/p>\n<p>  The four-hour-a-week DraftKings habit is roughly twice the amount of time the average American spends playing real sports, or even exercising. (Tweet this) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2015 is shaping up to be a big year for fantasy sports site DraftKings, but it may be just as big for a handful of players on the site. At some point this year, the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[233],"class_list":["post-2471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-recreation","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2472,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2471\/revisions\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}