{"id":3175,"date":"2010-10-16T08:29:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-16T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=3175"},"modified":"2010-10-16T08:29:08","modified_gmt":"2010-10-16T12:29:08","slug":"rum-battle-in-caribbean-leaves-tax-hangover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/rum-battle-in-caribbean-leaves-tax-hangover","title":{"rendered":"Rum Battle in Caribbean Leaves Tax Hangover"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3177\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3177\" title=\"rum-battle-s\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/rum-battle-s.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/rum-battle-s.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/rum-battle-s-150x78.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by: Quiani L. Duncan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Rum and politics have made a fiery mix since America\u2019s earliest days,  when a young politician named George Washington won election to the  House of Burgesses in colonial Virginia with the help of spiked punch at  the polls.<\/p>\n<p>There have been rum wars involving pirates and slave traders, and rumrunners who made a mockery of Prohibition.<\/p>\n<p>Now the spirit once called Kill-Devil has set off a bitter dispute  between two United States islands, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands,  over a tax that the federal treasury collects on rum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rum has set off a dispute between Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands over a tax the U.S. treasury collects on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[100],"class_list":["post-3175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","tag-caribbean-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}