{"id":2955,"date":"2019-03-19T10:36:01","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2955"},"modified":"2019-03-19T10:36:01","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T17:36:01","slug":"the-tale-of-trindad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2955","title":{"rendered":"The Tale of Trindad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"article_date\">Post on: March 11, 2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p>By\u00a0<a title=\"See more from David Savona\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/author\/david-savona\">David Savona<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"article_info list-inline\"><\/ul>\n<p>Cuba threw a huge party in February\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/article\/cuban-auction-raises-more-than-1-7-million\">centered around the 50th birthday of the Trinidad brand<\/a>, but that golden anniversary left many people scratching their heads. For most of its history Trinidad was a shrouded in secrecy and mystery. It didn\u2019t become widely known until the 1990s, and the cigar as we know it today has only been sold since 1998.<\/p>\n<p>The first mention of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/brand\/trinidad\">Trinidad<\/a>\u00a0in the pages of\u00a0<em>Cigar Aficionado<\/em>\u00a0came in Autumn 1992, the first issue of the magazine, as a sidebar to a feature story on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/brand\/cohiba\">Cohiba<\/a>. Called \u201cTrinidad: The Best Kept Secret in Cuba,\u201d it was the first time that many people had heard of the brand, including some people in Cuba\u2019s cigar industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis cigar is so secret,\u201d the article stated, \u201cthat few individuals, including executives at the government-run Cubatabaco, are aware of its existence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Trinidads were made in one size only, a 7 1\/2 inch-long by 38 ring gauge lancero that mirrored the dimensions of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/ratings\/detail\/source\/search\/note_id\/20034\">Cohiba Lancero<\/a>. The cigar was not created to be sold, but only to be given as a gift by Fidel Castro, the leader of Cuba at the time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/article\/the-tale-of-trinidad\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post on: March 11, 2019 By\u00a0David Savona Cuba threw a huge party in February\u00a0centered around the 50th birthday of the Trinidad brand, but that golden anniversary left many people scratching their heads. For most of its history Trinidad was a shrouded in secrecy and mystery. It didn\u2019t become widely known until the 1990s, and the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2955","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\/2955","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\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2957,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2955\/revisions\/2957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}