{"id":52,"date":"2007-09-27T18:23:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-27T22:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/2007\/09\/27\/cigars-%e2%80%93-the-second-cut\/"},"modified":"2007-09-27T18:23:53","modified_gmt":"2007-09-27T22:23:53","slug":"cigars-%e2%80%93-the-second-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/cigars-%e2%80%93-the-second-cut\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigars \u00e2\u20ac\u201c The Second Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is such a simple way to improve your cigars enjoyment I&#8217;m surprised more herfers aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t aware of it.<\/p>\n<p>When you clip your cigar, remove less of the cap than you usually do.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, when the stogie is somewhere between 1\/2 and 2\/3s finished, clip it again, taking off an 1\/8 of an inch or so.<\/p>\n<p>The second cut removes the tars that the tobacco has been filtering out, and you&#8217;ll find the flavor opens up and the thing just tastes better.<\/p>\n<p>This works really well with a punch.\u00c2\u00a0 A lot of us don&#8217;t like punches because some cigars get skankey about half way down, but the second cut trick takes care of that.<\/p>\n<p>Try this on your next cigar and you&#8217;ll be surprised at how much difference it makes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is such a simple way to improve your cigars enjoyment I&#8217;m surprised more herfers aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t aware of it. When you clip your cigar, remove less of the cap than you usually do.\u00c2\u00a0 Then, when the stogie is somewhere between 1\/2 and 2\/3s finished, clip it again, taking off an 1\/8 of an inch or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.davehitt.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}