{"id":2295,"date":"2010-05-30T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T18:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2010-05-30T14:47:13","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T18:47:13","slug":"mexicana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2295","title":{"rendered":"Mexicana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=2296\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2296\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/caball_ero_cigarette_s-111x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Caballero cigarettes\" width=\"111\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/caball_ero_cigarette_s-111x150.jpg 111w, http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/caball_ero_cigarette_s.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 111px) 100vw, 111px\" \/><\/a>arlier this weekend, at the local liquor store I was briefly distracted by a brandy or wine named &#8216;Caballero&#8217; (can&#8217;t find on the Internets): I&#8217;m not sure if it was the brand name or the name of the drink itself, but, it reminded me of the other <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wipo.int\/ipdl\/en\/madrid\/key.jsp?KEY=327377\">brand name of cigarettes<\/a> made by a Dutch cigarettes manufacturer, then called &#8216;Sigarettenfabriek Ed. Laurens B.V&#8217;. The company was eventually bought out by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bat.com\/\">British American Tobacco<\/a>. Their site has a rather bland portion about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bat.com\/group\/sites\/uk__3mnfen.nsf\/vwPagesWebLive\/DO52AMG6?opendocument&#038;SKN=1\">health risks of smoking<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bat.com\/group\/sites\/UK__3MNFEN.nsf\/vwPagesWebLive\/DO53EJ62?opendocument&#038;SKN=1\">genetically modified tobacco<\/a> (no).\n<\/p>\n<p>Both my parents smoked: Originally, my mother smoked Caballero cigarettes I believe and then switched to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cigarettespedia.com\/index.php\/Belinda_(design_2)_(Menthol)_L-25-S_-_Holland\">&#8216;Belinda&#8217; cigarettes<\/a>,  which, as you can tell,  were cigarettes solely targeted to females. My mother eventually quit smoking (cold turkey I believe) and the images of &#8220;the mexican on his horse&#8221; cigarette packs slowly faded away from my memories and probably (as the brand doesn&#8217;t appear to exist anymore) from the minds of continental Europeans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this weekend, at the local liquor store I was briefly distracted by a brandy or wine named &#8216;Caballero&#8217; (can&#8217;t find on the Internets): I&#8217;m not sure if it was the brand name or the name of the drink itself, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=2295\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[426],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}