{"id":2984,"date":"2019-06-27T07:17:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T14:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2019-06-27T07:17:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T14:17:57","slug":"nicaragua-puffing-up-status-in-rarefied-world-of-premium-cigars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2984","title":{"rendered":"Nicaragua Puffing Up Status in Rarefied World of Premium Cigars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Post on: June 25, 2019<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ESTELI, Nicaragua: From \u201crich and full-bodied\u201d to \u201ccomplex with hints of licorice,\u201d aficionados exhaust the lexicon to capture the essence of Nicaragua\u2019s most highly-prized produce \u2014 not wine, but cigars, which are especially popular in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>The recognition turns the vibrant green hills of Esteli, in the troubled Central American country\u2019s northwest, into a hive of activity come harvest time.<\/p>\n<p>Here, 800 meters (2,620 feet) above sea level, half of the population of 110,000 is employed in the tobacco industry \u2014 picking, drying or curing, or rolling cigars in factories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1516111\/business-economy\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Post on: June 25, 2019 &nbsp; ESTELI, Nicaragua: From \u201crich and full-bodied\u201d to \u201ccomplex with hints of licorice,\u201d aficionados exhaust the lexicon to capture the essence of Nicaragua\u2019s most highly-prized produce \u2014 not wine, but cigars, which are especially popular in the United States. The recognition turns the vibrant green hills of Esteli, in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2984","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\/2984","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=2984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2986,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2984\/revisions\/2986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}