{"id":3022,"date":"2019-10-07T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T18:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3022"},"modified":"2019-10-07T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2019-10-07T18:54:49","slug":"winston-churchills-partly-smoked-cigar-auctioned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3022","title":{"rendered":"Winston Churchill&#8217;s Partly-Smoked Cigar Auctioned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on: October 7, 2019<\/p>\n<p>Posted by: BBC News (no author noted in article)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A cigar, partly smoked by Winston Churchill and &#8220;picked up and treasured&#8221; by an usherette, is to be sold.<\/p>\n<p>Violet King saw then prime minister drop the cigar at the London Coliseum in January 1953, her great nephew Julian Lewis said.<\/p>\n<p>Ms King wrote to Churchill asking if she could &#8220;tell her friends she had his cigar&#8221; and kept a letter from Downing Street giving his consent.<\/p>\n<p>Auctioneers Hansons said the item could fetch \u00a36,000 in the December sale.<\/p>\n<p>Hansons said the cigar&#8217;s &#8220;rock solid provenance&#8221; and good condition had boosted the guide price.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-england-49961499\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on: October 7, 2019 Posted by: BBC News (no author noted in article) &nbsp; A cigar, partly smoked by Winston Churchill and &#8220;picked up and treasured&#8221; by an usherette, is to be sold. Violet King saw then prime minister drop the cigar at the London Coliseum in January 1953, her great nephew Julian Lewis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3022","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\/3022","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=3022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3024,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3022\/revisions\/3024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}