{"id":596,"date":"2006-11-29T23:34:03","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T04:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/archives\/2006\/11\/29\/fighting-cock-torpedo\/"},"modified":"2012-10-15T18:55:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T23:55:54","slug":"fighting-cock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/2006\/11\/fighting-cock\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighting Cock Torpedo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp\/wp-gallery2.php?g2_itemId=11422\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gallery\/d\/11423-2\/fightingcock.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" alt=\"fightingcock\" title=\"fightingcock\" class=\"g2image_float_left\" \/><\/a> I picked up a pretty good deal this week at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cigarsinternational.com\">Cigars International<\/a>. They had a cigar called, oddly, a Fighting Cock, which is a cigar made in Nicaragua, and possessing an extremely strong flavor.  My typical cigar is oftentimes a mild cigar like the Macanudo Gold or an Arturo Fuene, and since it&#8217;s been a while since I&#8217;ve smoked a strong cigar, and since I was able to pick them up for less than $1 apiece, I put an order in.  (A plug here for CI&#8230; it got to me in two days, even with normal ground shipping.)<\/p>\n<p>My first impression is that it is a well made cigar.  It&#8217;s solid, with very little give when you squeeze.  When I lit it, I was immediately greeted with a strong, thick flavor.  After a while, not only were my taste buds affected, but I started to get a little light headed.  It didn&#8217;t burn perfectly even, nor did I manage to keep it lit, but I think that was due to the fact that I needed to set it down every few minutes to allow my head to stop spinning.<\/p>\n<p>Once I got beyond the strength, I did enjoy the interesting spicy flavor that was clearly present.  I think it needed a good strong ale to go along with it.  This isn&#8217;t a golf course cigar, but more one for sitting down and enjoying for its own sake.  For a dollar cigar, I think it ends up being a good deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a pretty good deal this week at Cigars International. They had a cigar called, oddly, a Fighting Cock, which is a cigar made in Nicaragua, and possessing an extremely strong flavor. My typical cigar is oftentimes a mild cigar like the Macanudo Gold or an Arturo Fuene, and since it&#8217;s been a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":728,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596\/revisions\/728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glamdring.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}