Croatian music teacher Frane Selak has much for which to be grateful. \u00a0He survived a train accident in which 17 people died. \u00a0Then he survived a bus crash that killed four. \u00a0Back in 1970 his car caught fire but he escaped just before it exploded. \u00a0In 1996 he was driving in the mountains when he turned a corner to see a UN truck headed straight for him. \u00a0His car, (a Skoda) crashed through a barrier and went over the edge, but he jumped out in the nick of time and landed in a tree just as his car exploded below him.<\/p>\n
Then in 2003 he won the jackpot of 600,000. pounds, (English) with his first ever lottery ticket. \u00a0He is now in his eighties and is planning to build a shrine to the Blessed Virgin Mary. \u00a0It’s about time, Frane!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Croatian music teacher Frane Selak has much for which to be grateful. \u00a0He survived a train accident in which 17 people died. \u00a0Then he survived a bus crash that killed four. \u00a0Back in 1970 his car caught fire but he escaped just before it exploded. \u00a0In 1996 he was driving in the mountains when he turned a corner to see… (more…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[173,388,303,389,129],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-blessed-virgin-mary","tag-frane-selak","tag-guardian-angels","tag-un","tag-virgin-mary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":567,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamiestanthony.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}