{"id":32235,"date":"2020-04-28T10:39:55","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T14:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mikescigars.com\/?p=32235"},"modified":"2020-06-19T17:25:50","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T21:25:50","slug":"me-and-my-cigar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikescigars.com\/blog\/me-and-my-cigar\/","title":{"rendered":"Me and My Cigar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The first in a series dedicated to understanding the definition and body of a cigar, its historical and cultural implications on society, and the loving nature of community through cigars.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">As the sun sets here on day ten thousand, nine hundred and fifty\neight of this quarantine period, I find myself again alone with my best\nfriend\u2026my cigar. They\u2019ve been with me through heaven and hell, good times and\nthe bad\u2026it\u2019s a marriage made in heaven. And I looked at them, and I asked them,\n\u201chow did you get to be the way you are?\u201d Your beautiful body that loops and spirals\nwith my fingers, your magnificent smell that pervades my being, and your\npresence that completes me\u2026\u201d I genuinely wondered, in search of an answer to\nreach some sort of greater understanding of my best friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, what exactly is a cigar? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At first glance, it\u2019s simply a rolled up piece of paper with\nsome stuff in the middle, tied up nice and tight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, nothing is ever that simple, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As you peel apart each layer, their complexity unwinds and you\nwitness the inner-workings of a pure, premium, crafted cigar. Their natural\nbeauty that can only be achieved with the smoothest of fingers and finest of\ntobacco, the smell and the taste of the fermented tobacco, which was also aged\nuntil it was made perfect just for you\u2026and just for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We handle them with eloquence and love because they need to be\ncared for tenderly. Cut and lit in the right way that will optimize your\nexperience and make you feel just right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As I sit down and relax, I think about your history. Your humble\nbeginnings at the start of the New World, your cultivation in Cuba and your\nwidespread revolution that was worldwide. The Tobacco Trail&#8230;The Cigar\nCrusade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And then I think about the impact you\u2019ve had on my friends,\nsociety, culture\u2026and the power you have to bring people together\u2026and how this\nvirus is keeping people apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But they\u2019ll never be able to keep us apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Understand your cigar by understanding the history behind it. 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