{"id":64141,"date":"2023-07-10T17:46:35","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/?p=64141"},"modified":"2023-07-10T17:46:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T15:46:35","slug":"cswc-in-dominican-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/cswc-in-dominican-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"CSWC in Dominican Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Last year Rafael Solano Portorreal became the first ever Dominican slow smoking champion when he kept his cigar alive for about one hour and 50 minutes. This year he was looking to repeat the feat when the Cigar Slow Smoking Championship qualifier was held at the House <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Blend Cigar Lounge and Bar in Santiago de los Caballeros and it was looking good. He did even better than last year, but it wasn\u2019t enough. In the end he was beaten\u2026 by his wife.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Freilyn Perez Diaz also competed in 2022 but didn\u2019t make it to the top three. This time she smoked for a whopping 2 hours 27 minutes and 6 seconds, half an hour longer than her husband in second place and a new national record.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Organizer Danays Leon Sanchez was happy with the event. <\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u201cWe even had a competitor from Miami,\u201d he says. \u201cLeticia Le\u00f3n traveled to DR, spicing up the competition spirit and proving the increasing popularity and interest in the championship on this side\u00a0of the globe.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Third place went to Alfredo Amed Chaer Pe\u00f1a.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">1.<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">Freilyn Perez Diaz 2:27:06<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">2.<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Rafael Solano Portorreal\u00a01:56:46<br \/>\n<\/span><span class=\"s1\">3.<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u00a0 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">Alfredo Amed Chaer Pe\u00f1a 1:46:00<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year Rafael Solano Portorreal became the first ever Dominican slow smoking champion when he kept his cigar alive for about one hour and 50 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":64142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[49,63,44],"tags":[5366],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64141"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64144,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64141\/revisions\/64144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cigarjournal.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}