{"id":96,"date":"2005-08-22T21:04:18","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T05:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=96"},"modified":"2005-08-23T00:05:33","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T08:05:33","slug":"beer-for-kids-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/beer-for-kids-in-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Beer for Kids in Japan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going the US one better than the non-alcoholic RedBull &#8482; mixed with real vodka, a Japanese company has introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/cgi-bin\/getarticle.pl5?nb20050806a1.htm\">Kidsbeer<\/a> &#8482;, a guarana soda that looks just like your favorite brew.  <\/p>\n<p>It is a reformulated version of Guarana &#8212; an ordinary cola based on the South American plant &#8212; now made less sweet and a heck of a lot foamier.   <\/p>\n<p>(I hope it tastes better than the B to the E &#8482; sweet malt beverage I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?m=20050411\">earlier<\/a> in this journal.  Remember, that was real alcohol pretending to be soda.  It looks like beer, but it tastes like those energy drinks.)<\/p>\n<p>Kidsbeer &#8482; is selling well. It is a twin of real beer in traditional brown glass long-neck bottles with classic beer labels. It is gaining popularity, even being sold as a gift item in department stores.<\/p>\n<p>The theme line is translated as &#8220;Even kids can&#8217;t stand life unless they have a drink.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I hope that line wouldn&#8217;t fly over here. It&#8217;s an obvious way to encourage underage drinking of Realbeer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going the US one better than the non-alcoholic RedBull &#8482; mixed with real vodka, a Japanese company has introduced Kidsbeer &#8482;, a guarana soda that looks just like your favorite brew. It is a reformulated version of Guarana &#8212; an ordinary cola based on the South American plant &#8212; now made less sweet and a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}