{"id":7290,"date":"2017-09-28T19:05:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=7290"},"modified":"2017-09-28T19:05:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:05:28","slug":"cigars-got-their-name-from-cicadas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cigars-got-their-name-from-cicadas\/","title":{"rendered":"Cigars got their name from cicadas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cigars got their name from cicadas?<\/p>\n<p>A 1916 article titled &#8220;How Men&#8217;s Habits Began&#8221; (The Press Publishing Co, The New York Evening World) says this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA cigar deserves a better start, but some of our highbrows claim it got its name from our little friend, the katydid. &#8220;Cigarro&#8221; was the Spanish name, and the learned ones twist this into coming from &#8220;cicada&#8221;.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This story seems believable. &#8220;Cigarra&#8221; is one word Spanish-speaking people use for cicadas. Cicadas do look like cigar butts. Katydids &#8212; while not cicadas &#8212; are insects that sing like cicadas, and their wings kind of look like tobacco leaves. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn83030193\/1916-01-25\/ed-1\/seq-14\/#date1=1916&#038;index=0&#038;rows=20&#038;words=cicada&#038;searchType=basic&#038;sequence=0&#038;state=New+York&#038;date2=1916&#038;proxtext=cicada&#038;y=0&#038;x=0&#038;dateFilterType=yearRange&#038;page=1\">a link to the story<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cigars got their name from cicadas? A 1916 article titled &#8220;How Men&#8217;s Habits Began&#8221; (The Press Publishing Co, The New York Evening World) says this: A cigar deserves a better start, but some of our highbrows claim it got its name from our little friend, the katydid. &#8220;Cigarro&#8221; was the Spanish name, and the learned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[345],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-folklore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}