{"id":2703,"date":"2015-06-25T08:26:13","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T15:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2015-06-25T08:26:13","modified_gmt":"2015-06-25T15:26:13","slug":"collecting-cuban-cigars-a-primer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2703","title":{"rendered":"Collecting Cuban Cigars: A Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"title-sec\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<h1 class=\"page-title\">Collecting Cuban Cigars: A Primer<\/h1>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-sub-title field-type-text-long field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>With Cuba now open to American tourists and business, the best cigars in the world are now (legally) available.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<div class=\"col-lg-6 author-details\" style=\"color: #999999;\">\n<div class=\"category-date-wrapper\"><span class=\"categoryType\"><strong style=\"color: #758393;\">ENTERTAINMENT<\/strong><span class=\"article_date\">May 20, 2015<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"authorTitle\">By\u00a0<span class=\"links\"><a style=\"color: #999999 !important;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maxim.com\/authors\/g-clay-whittaker\">G. CLAY WHITTAKER<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"maxim-social-icons\">\n<div class=\"facebook\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\n<p>If you haven\u2019t yet, it\u2019s time to start investing in the next great money maker: vintage cigars.<\/p>\n<p>Already the\u00a0<a style=\"color: #5b83b2;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.maxim.com\/maxim-man\/article\/how-get-cuban-cigars-without-going-cuba\">Cuban cigar market is opening up<\/a>\u00a0to Americans, and as it becomes easier to get them into the country in larger quantities, the market for resale and collecting is going to have a boom.<\/p>\n<p>For advice on cigar collecting, we talked to Ajay Patel, proprietor of London\u2019s Casa del Habano. Patel is among the world\u2019s foremost experts on\u00a0<a style=\"color: #5b83b2;\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Habanos_S.A.\">Cuban tobacco<\/a>, and\u00a0<a style=\"color: #5b83b2;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.havahavana.com\/index.jsp\">his personal and public collection<\/a>\u00a0could make Castro\u2019s mouth water.<\/p>\n<p>When boxes of cigars can cost hundreds of dollars, jumping into the market can feel daunting. Patel says there are a few important steps that every collector, new or experienced, needs to take when deciding what to invest in.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maxim.com\/entertainment\/food-drink\/article\/collecting-cuban-cigars-primer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Collecting Cuban Cigars: A Primer With Cuba now open to American tourists and business, the best cigars in the world are now (legally) available. ENTERTAINMENTMay 20, 2015\u00a0By\u00a0G. CLAY WHITTAKER If you haven\u2019t yet, it\u2019s time to start investing in the next great money maker: vintage cigars. Already the\u00a0Cuban cigar market is opening up\u00a0to Americans, and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2703","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\/2703","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=2703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2705,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703\/revisions\/2705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}