{"id":662,"date":"2011-03-17T18:43:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T01:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/?p=662"},"modified":"2011-09-07T08:48:16","modified_gmt":"2011-09-07T15:48:16","slug":"esquire-november-1959-mai-kai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2011\/03\/17\/esquire-november-1959-mai-kai\/","title":{"rendered":"Esquire November 1959 – Mai-Kai"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not much to add to this. Please click the article and read for the exact heaping praise this great magazine put upon the Mai-Kai. And try this very elusive recipe for the Moonkist Coconut. One of very few of Mariano’s recipes that have been made public.<\/p>\n

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Long live Mai-Kai and t<\/a>he Mystery Girl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Not much to add to this. Please click the article and read for the exact heaping praise this great magazine put upon the Mai-Kai. And try this very elusive recipe Read More …<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[542,551,17,547,11,539,540,541],"tags":[632,152,232,234,617,638,637,702],"class_list":["post-662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tiki-collecting","category-ephemera-retro-goodies-2","category-ephemera","category-places","category-polynesian-pop","category-retro-goodies","category-retro-preservation","category-vintage-places","tag-esquire","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-magazine","tag-mai-kai","tag-mariano-licudine","tag-moonkist-coconut","tag-moonkist-coconut-recipe","tag-og-tiki-central"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p731sH-aG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":542,"url":"https:\/\/www.swankpad.org\/blather\/2010\/11\/29\/mai-kai-derby-daiquiri-and-mariano-licudine\/","url_meta":{"origin":662,"position":0},"title":"Mai-Kai Derby Daiquiri and Mariano Licudine","author":"Swanky","date":"November 29, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"This image is from the June 1959 issue of Esquire magazine. 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