{"id":31,"date":"2016-10-08T04:55:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T04:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poilanecoffee.com\/?p=31"},"modified":"2017-10-31T04:29:55","modified_gmt":"2017-10-31T04:29:55","slug":"eugene-poilane-portrait","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/eugene-poilane-portrait\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene Poilane (portrait)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style7\" align=\"left\">Eug\u00e8ne\u00a0Poilane\u00a0first passed through what became\u00a0Khe\u00a0Sanh\u00a0village in 1918, when it consisted of only one house, that of the engineer supervising construction of Colonial Route 9, the first metaled road to Laos.\u00a0<!--more-->Like the Americans who followed, he was captivated by the lush vegetation and thought the red soil as fine as anything in Tuscany.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style7\" align=\"left\">He returned in 1926 to start a coffee plantation, importing\u00a0chiaricoffee trees and tending them for the ten years they need to become productive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-55 \" src=\"http:\/\/thomcoffee.com\/poilane\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/poilaine2-213x300.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/poilaine2-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/poilaine2.png 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eug\u00e8ne\u00a0Poilane\u00a0first passed through what became\u00a0Khe\u00a0Sanh\u00a0village in 1918, when it consisted of only one house, that of the engineer supervising construction of Colonial Route 9, the first metaled road to Laos.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-eugene-poilane","category-gallery","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/khesanhcoffee.com\/poilane-eugene\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}