{"id":935,"date":"2012-05-09T07:48:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-09T13:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/?p=935"},"modified":"2012-05-09T07:48:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T13:48:36","slug":"merlion-by-la-sirena-coming-ashore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/?p=935","title":{"rendered":"Merlion by La Sirena Coming Ashore!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Merlion-Ring-Final.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-936\" title=\"Merlion Ring Final\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Merlion-Ring-Final-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Merlion-Ring-Final-300x177.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Merlion-Ring-Final-400x236.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Merlion-Ring-Final.jpg 554w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Miami, Florida &#8211; May 04, 2012 &#8211; In what one can term Beauty &amp; The Beast; La Sirena and La Aurora have teamed up to create a new cigar, Merlion.. The name Merlion comes from a<br \/>\nmythical creature that is half lion and half mermaid, the perfect fit for La Sirena and La Aurora.<\/p>\n<p>The Merlion will be rolled at La Aurora Cigar Factory utilizing 6 different types of tobacco. The Wrapper is a silky looking Ecuadorian Corojo, while the binder is Sumatra from Brazil. The filler, has 4 different types of tobacco including; Brazillian Bahia, Dominican Corojo, Dominican Criollo &#8217;98, and Nicaraguan ligero to add that strength that you expect from a La Sirena cigar.<\/p>\n<p>The Merlion which comes 20 in a box is available in 3 sizes, Robusto (5 x 50 \/ $9.00); Toro (5.5 x54 \/ $10.00) and Gran Toro (6 x 58 \/ $10.50). All prices are before local taxes.<br \/>\nAccording to Brand Manager, Arielle Ditkowich &#8220;We are very excited to be working with<br \/>\nGuillermo and La Aurora, they have blended us a beautiful medium bodied cigar that is<br \/>\nextremely complex and offers a nice contrast to our existing line.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Merlion by La Sirena is expected to start shipping late June 2012.<\/p>\n<p>About Miami Cigar &amp; Company Miami Cigar &amp; Company, founded in 1989, is the exclusive US distributor of La Aurora brands which include Guillermo Leon &amp; Leon Jimenes. They are also the worldwide distributor of Tatiana, Don Lino, La Sirena and Nestor Miranda line of cigars. They can found on the web at http:\/\/www.miamicigarandcompany.com\/ and http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/miamicigarcompany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami, Florida &#8211; May 04, 2012 &#8211; In what one can term Beauty &amp; The Beast; La Sirena and La<a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/?p=935\"> [Read the full story &#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cigar-industry-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p16MGD-f5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":938,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions\/938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.inthehumidor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}