{"id":2811,"date":"2017-08-31T09:20:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2811"},"modified":"2017-08-31T09:20:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T16:20:02","slug":"an-expert-guide-to-cigars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2811","title":{"rendered":"An Expert Guide to Cigars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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AN EXPERT GUIDE TO CIGARS<\/h1>\n

JULY 2017\u00a0<\/span>WORDS BY MR NICHOLAS FOULKES<\/span><\/p>\n

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Mr Marcel Duchamp in France, 1967. Photograph by Mr Bruno Barbey\/Magnum Photos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/header>\n
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We have Mr Oscar Wilde. The US has Mr Mark Twain, at least in terms of witty apothegms. My favourite? \u201cIf smoking is not allowed in heaven, I shall not go.\u201d Mr Twain was not a man who smoked to excess \u2013 only one cigar at a time, he was careful to point out \u2013 but the inference is clear enough: heaven is a cigar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Cigars are a degustatory delight, instruments of pleasure that soothe the jangled nerves, knit the ravelled sleeve of care and\u2026 all that sort of thing. It is impossible not to feel slightly better about life with a cigar in the hand. It is one of life\u2019s great consolations and has about as much in common with a hurried cigarette snatched outside an\u00a0office<\/a>\u00a0as a can of extra-strength lager has with a\u00a0magnum<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Ch\u00e2teau P\u00e9trus<\/a>. Read more…<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AN EXPERT GUIDE TO CIGARS JULY 2017\u00a0WORDS BY MR NICHOLAS FOULKES Mr Marcel Duchamp in France, 1967. Photograph by Mr Bruno Barbey\/Magnum Photos We have Mr Oscar Wilde. The US has Mr Mark Twain, at least in terms of witty apothegms. My favourite? \u201cIf smoking is not allowed in heaven, I shall not go.\u201d Mr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2811","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\/2811","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=2811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2813,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2811\/revisions\/2813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}