{"id":2561,"date":"2014-12-12T08:18:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:18:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2014-12-12T08:19:11","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:19:11","slug":"steam-whistle-microbrewery-co-owner-tries-his-hand-at-cigars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2561","title":{"rendered":"Steam Whistle microbrewery co-owner tries his hand at cigars"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-authors\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>By:<\/strong>\u00a0<span class=\"credit\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0072bc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/authors.piffer_russell.html\" rel=\"author\">Russell Piffer<\/a><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"staff\" style=\"color: #777777;\">News reporter,<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"published-date\" style=\"color: #aaaaaa;\">Published on Wed Dec 10 2014<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-story float-clear\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<div class=\"article-story-body\">\n<div class=\"body parsys\">\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>GRANADA, NICARAGUA\u2014While backpacking through Central America in 2005, Cameron Heaps, co-owner of Steam Whistle Brewing, discovered a family cigar factory next door to the school where he was taking Spanish lessons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text combinedtext parbase section\">\n<p>He and backpacking partner Markus Raty made regular visits to the factory in Granada, Nicaragua, during their stay and the owner regaled them with stories about the country\u2019s history, culture and tobacco.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/business\/2014\/12\/10\/steam_whistle_microbrewery_coowner_tries_his_hand_at_cigars.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mombacho2.jpg.size_.xxlarge.letterbox.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2562\" src=\"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mombacho2.jpg.size_.xxlarge.letterbox.jpg\" alt=\"mombacho2.jpg.size.xxlarge.letterbox\" width=\"545\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mombacho2.jpg.size_.xxlarge.letterbox.jpg 545w, http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mombacho2.jpg.size_.xxlarge.letterbox-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By:\u00a0Russell Piffer\u00a0News reporter,\u00a0Published on Wed Dec 10 2014 GRANADA, NICARAGUA\u2014While backpacking through Central America in 2005, Cameron Heaps, co-owner of Steam Whistle Brewing, discovered a family cigar factory next door to the school where he was taking Spanish lessons. He and backpacking partner Markus Raty made regular visits to the factory in Granada, Nicaragua, during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[111,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-2561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news","8":"tag-beer","9":"tag-brewery"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}