{"id":2755,"date":"2015-11-21T11:01:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T19:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2755"},"modified":"2015-11-23T11:51:07","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T19:51:07","slug":"on-the-cigar-trail-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2755","title":{"rendered":"On the Cigar Trail in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 id=\"story-heading\" class=\"story-heading balance-text\" style=\"float: none; display: block; white-space: normal; position: static;\">On the Cigar Trail in Cuba<\/h1>\n<p id=\"story-deck\" class=\"deck balance-text\" style=\"float: none; display: block; white-space: normal; position: static;\">Prompted by thawing relations, an American cigar lover goes to Cuba to find one of the best.<\/p>\n<div id=\"story-meta-footer\" class=\"story-meta-footer\">\n<p class=\"byline-dateline\"><span class=\"byline\">By <span class=\"byline-author\" data-byline-name=\"RON STODGHILL\">RON STODGHILL<\/span><\/span><time class=\"dateline\" datetime=\"2015-11-20\">NOV. 20, 2015<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-dateline\">Walking along the gritty, darkening streets of Havana, I felt a sense of foreboding wash over me. A few paces ahead was a stranger. Jorge, he called himself, a young street hustler I had just met at a taxi stand outside the Hotel Capri. Jorge was dressed decidedly urban: an oversize San Diego Padres jersey, baggy denim shorts and Adidas shell-toe sneakers. Jorge was also charming, and through broken English he had enticed me from the touristy environs of downtown into what was eerily morphing into a barren, crumbling neighborhood of sagging rowhouses. The object of seduction: a box of Habanos, or hand-rolled cigars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-dateline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/22\/travel\/cuban-cigars.html?utm_source=flipboard&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the Cigar Trail in Cuba Prompted by thawing relations, an American cigar lover goes to Cuba to find one of the best. By RON STODGHILLNOV. 20, 2015 Walking along the gritty, darkening streets of Havana, I felt a sense of foreboding wash over me. A few paces ahead was a stranger. Jorge, he called<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[127,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-2755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cigar-news","8":"tag-cuba","9":"tag-travel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","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=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2756,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}