{"id":58039,"date":"2016-03-21T05:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T10:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58039"},"modified":"2016-03-20T10:08:15","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T15:08:15","slug":"buried-in-the-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58039","title":{"rendered":"Buried In The Details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes, <span class=\"\">de Como<\/span> Park, <span class=\"\">env\u00eda<\/span> <span class=\"\">un correo electr\u00f3nico:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I recently vacationed in Mexico.\u00a0 The shops advertised Cuban cigars.\u00a0 I remember President Obama normalized relations with Cuba so Americans can now bring home Cuban cigars worth $100 for personal use. \u00a0 Great, I bought a box.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cigars.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-58040\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-58040\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Cigars.jpg\" alt=\"Cigars\" width=\"375\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Except . . . I&#8217;ve learned not to trust that guy.\u00a0 Before I brought the cigars on the airplane, I did a little more checking.\u00a0 Media accounts were what I remembered but Newsweek mentioned &#8220;Americans eligible to travel to Cuba&#8221; can bring home cigars.\u00a0 Hang on, that&#8217;s lawyer speak, what&#8217;s that doing in the article?\u00a0 What does it actually mean?\u00a0 Finally found the Customs website.<\/p>\n<p>If you buy Cuban cigars in Cuba, you can bring them home; if you buy Cuban cigars anywhere else, they&#8217;re still illegal.\u00a0 Attempting to bring them home is smuggling, a federal crime with a whopping fine and prison time.<\/p>\n<p>Typical for this President, just like his big talk about closing Gitmo, slowing the rise of oceans, gun control . . . it&#8217;s announced to great fanfare but amounts to small beer.\u00a0\u00a0 I left the cigars for the hotel maid in addition to the cash that I tipped her for looking after our room.\u00a0 I hope she finds a use for them.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Back in 2008, when people said &#8220;Obama will be a splendid president, because constitutional lawyer&#8221;, I used to respond &#8220;a President needs to know the same about the Constitution as a good cop, or maybe a high school civics teacher. \u00a0Politicians who are lawyers like to play games with the law. \u00a0Never trust them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I take no pleasure from getting the last laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes, de Como Park, env\u00eda un correo electr\u00f3nico: I recently vacationed in Mexico.\u00a0 The shops advertised Cuban cigars.\u00a0 I remember President Obama normalized relations with Cuba so Americans can now bring home Cuban cigars worth $100 for personal use. \u00a0 Great, I bought a box. Except . . . I&#8217;ve learned not to trust [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-president-obama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58041,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58039\/revisions\/58041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}