{"id":3037,"date":"2019-11-03T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-03T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3037"},"modified":"2019-10-31T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:11:00","slug":"cigar-smoking-world-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/?p=3037","title":{"rendered":"Cigar Smoking World Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"css-vp77d3 epjyd6m2\">\n<div class=\"css-1baulvz\">\n<p class=\"css-tq7f9c e1jsehar1\">Posted by\u00a0<a class=\"css-1riqqik e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/andrew-keh\"><span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Andrew Keh<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"css-tq7f9c e1jsehar1\">Photographs by\u00a0<span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\">Pete Kiehart<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-ld3wwf e16638kd1\">Posted on: Oct. 29, 2019<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">SPLIT, Croatia \u2014 The smoke machine seemed redundant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">This was the Cigar Smoking World Championship. There was already a lot of smoke.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">But there it was, next to the laser lights and the rattling sound system, pluming white fog around a subterranean hotel ballroom in which people in tuxedos and evening gowns representing more than 40 countries had gathered to find out who among them could smoke a cigar the slowest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">The noise, the pageantry, the glittery prizes valued at tens of thousands of dollars \u2014 for Marko Bilic, a garrulous local cigar lounge owner, it was a far cry from the genesis of the event 10 years ago, when 17 people came by to try a game he had just made up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-exrw3m evys1bk0\">When the most recent edition was held, in the last week of August, there were close to 250 attendees, many of whom had competed in one of the 34 qualification events held around the world this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/29\/sports\/cigar-smoking-world-championship.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by\u00a0Andrew Keh Photographs by\u00a0Pete Kiehart Posted on: Oct. 29, 2019 SPLIT, Croatia \u2014 The smoke machine seemed redundant. This was the Cigar Smoking World Championship. There was already a lot of smoke. But there it was, next to the laser lights and the rattling sound system, pluming white fog around a subterranean hotel ballroom<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":3038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3037","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\/3037","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=3037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3037\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/canadacigarforum.com\/homev3\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}