{"id":2995,"date":"2019-07-18T10:48:20","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2995"},"modified":"2019-07-18T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2019-07-18T17:48:20","slug":"a-curious-collection-of-cult-cigars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=2995","title":{"rendered":"A Curious Collection of Cult Cigars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"article_date\">Posted on June 20, 2019<\/span><br \/>\nBy\u00a0<a title=\"See more from Gregory Mottola\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/author\/gregory-mottola\">Gregory Mottola<\/a><\/p>\n<ul class=\"article_info list-inline\"><\/ul>\n<p>They\u2019re hip. They\u2019re rare. Sometimes they\u2019re even a little weird. But some of the industry\u2019s offbeat cigars have gained a serious cult following over the years in much the same way cult movies attract a small, yet passionate fan base.<\/p>\n<p>In the July-August issue of\u00a0<em>Cigar Aficionado<\/em>, which is heading to your mailboxes now (and on newsstands starting July 9), we look at these curiously unconventional smokes in an article called \u201cCult Cigars and the People Behind Them.\u201d It provides background on today\u2019s cult cigarmakers, the cult movement and colorful anecdotes about how far some fans are willing to go to obtain these smokes. Here, we\u2019ve conjured an assortment of some of the quirky products from the article, as well as many others, as a companion piece to the story in the magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Even if you don\u2019t enjoy cult movies like Samuel Fuller\u2019s\u00a0<em>Shock Corridor<\/em>\u00a0or David Lynch\u2019s\u00a0<em>Eraserhead<\/em>\u00a0(or never heard of them for that matter), we\u2019re sure you\u2019ll be intrigued by such cigars as the Fuente Fuente OpusX Chili Pepper, Tatuaje Pork Tenderloin, OneOff+53 or Liga Privada Dirty Rat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cigaraficionado.com\/article\/a-curious-collection-of-cult-cigars\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on June 20, 2019 By\u00a0Gregory Mottola They\u2019re hip. They\u2019re rare. Sometimes they\u2019re even a little weird. But some of the industry\u2019s offbeat cigars have gained a serious cult following over the years in much the same way cult movies attract a small, yet passionate fan base. In the July-August issue of\u00a0Cigar Aficionado, which is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":2996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2995","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\/2995","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=2995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2997,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2995\/revisions\/2997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}