{"id":5858,"date":"2020-10-20T14:28:35","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicaffairs-sme.com\/ExchangePost\/?p=5858"},"modified":"2020-10-20T14:28:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T14:28:35","slug":"from-the-las-cruces-sun-news-latoya-mandas-was-only-buying-a-meal-at-subway-when-the-lucky-army-veteran-won-25000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/publicaffairs-sme.com\/ExchangePost\/2020\/10\/20\/from-the-las-cruces-sun-news-latoya-mandas-was-only-buying-a-meal-at-subway-when-the-lucky-army-veteran-won-25000\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Las Cruces Sun News: Latoya Mandas was only buying a meal at Subway, when the lucky army veteran won $25,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5861\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/publicaffairs-sme.com\/ExchangePost\/2020\/10\/20\/from-the-las-cruces-sun-news-latoya-mandas-was-only-buying-a-meal-at-subway-when-the-lucky-army-veteran-won-25000\/whitesandssubwaysiprippao\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/publicaffairs-sme.com\/ExchangePost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/WhiteSandsSubwaySipRipPAO.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1500,1301\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WhiteSandsSubwaySipRipPAO\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/publicaffairs-sme.com\/ExchangePost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/WhiteSandsSubwaySipRipPAO.jpg?w=300\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/publicaffairs-sme.com\/ExchangePost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/WhiteSandsSubwaySipRipPAO.jpg?w=1500\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5861\" src=\"https:\/\/publicaffairs-sme.com\/ExchangePost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/WhiteSandsSubwaySipRipPAO-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/>WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE\u00a0&#8211; Army veteran Latoya Mandas is a regular\u00a0customer at Subway, but she never thought that her frequent visits to the fast-food restaurant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aafespa\/50508995953\/in\/dateposted\/\">would get her a $25,000 shopping spree<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Mandas looked in disbelief at the tab on her cup filled with lemonade when she read that she was one of the lucky winners of the\u00a0Army &amp; Air Force Exchange Service\u2019s Subway Sip. Rip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI just went in one day for a meal, and they gave me a cup with a peel-off label,\u201d Mandas said. \u201cI pulled it, and I thought, \u2018What is this?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more from the<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/story\/news\/2020\/10\/04\/army-veteran-wins-shopping-white-sands-missile-range-exchange-service\/3597249001\/\"><strong>Sun News<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE\u00a0&#8211; Army veteran Latoya Mandas is a regular\u00a0customer at Subway, but she never thought that her frequent visits to the fast-food restaurant would get her a $25,000 shopping spree. 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