{"id":2631,"date":"2015-03-02T08:23:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T16:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2631"},"modified":"2015-03-02T08:35:25","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T16:35:25","slug":"cuban-cigar-makers-anticipate-big-bucks-from-us-travellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2631","title":{"rendered":"Cuban Cigar Makers Anticipate Big Bucks From US Travellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #363636;\"><span class=\"byline\">BY\u00a0<span class=\"author vcard\"><span class=\"fn\">ANDREA RODRIGUEZ\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span class=\"bylinetitle\">ASSOCIATED PRESS<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #363636;\">HAVANA (AP) &#8212; Over six decades rolling premium cigars with his small, wrinkled hands, Arnaldo Alfonso has taken pride in seeing his &#8220;habanos&#8221; sampled by visiting heads of state and other dignitaries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #363636;\">Now he&#8217;s delighted by the idea of customers lighting them up in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere in the United States, where Cuban cigars have been outlawed since the U.S. embargo took effect in 1962. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/C\/CB_CUBA_CIGAR_BOOM_?CTIME=2015-02-27-10-11-06&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;SITE=AP&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #363636;\">Read More&#8230;.<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY\u00a0ANDREA RODRIGUEZ\u00a0ASSOCIATED PRESS HAVANA (AP) &#8212; Over six decades rolling premium cigars with his small, wrinkled hands, Arnaldo Alfonso has taken pride in seeing his &#8220;habanos&#8221; sampled by visiting heads of state and other dignitaries. Now he&#8217;s delighted by the idea of customers lighting them up in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631","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=2631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2634,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2631\/revisions\/2634"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}