{"id":140565,"date":"2024-02-14T15:44:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=140565"},"modified":"2024-02-14T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T15:44:18","slug":"mocktail-mania-in-saudi-where-dry-january-lasts-all-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=140565","title":{"rendered":"Mocktail mania in Saudi, where dry January lasts all year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The concept was controversial: a pop-up bar offering bellinis and spritzes that, while non-alcoholic, were served in chilled cocktail glasses in the capital of teetotalling Saudi Arabia.But although customers were initially wary of the experiment -\u2013 which coincided with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, a time of fasting and forbearance -\u2013 the bar ended up doing brisk business.Its success highlights widening acceptance of more daring non-alcoholic fare even as booze itself remains strictly off-limits in the Gulf kingdom&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al-monitor.com\/originals\/2024\/01\/mocktail-mania-saudi-where-dry-january-lasts-all-year\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The concept was controversial: a pop-up bar offering bellinis and spritzes that, while non-alcoholic, were<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ksa"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140565-mocktail-mania-in-saudi-where-dry-january-lasts-all-year.jpg",1200,628,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140565-mocktail-mania-in-saudi-where-dry-january-lasts-all-year-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140565-mocktail-mania-in-saudi-where-dry-january-lasts-all-year-300x157.jpg",300,157,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140565-mocktail-mania-in-saudi-where-dry-january-lasts-all-year-768x402.jpg",640,335,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140565-mocktail-mania-in-saudi-where-dry-january-lasts-all-year-1024x536.jpg",640,335,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140565-mocktail-mania-in-saudi-where-dry-january-lasts-all-year.jpg",1200,628,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140565-mocktail-mania-in-saudi-where-dry-january-lasts-all-year.jpg",1200,628,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140565-mocktail-mania-in-saudi-where-dry-january-lasts-all-year-1024x536.jpg",1024,536,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140565-mocktail-mania-in-saudi-where-dry-january-lasts-all-year-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/140565-mocktail-mania-in-saudi-where-dry-january-lasts-all-year-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=27\" rel=\"category\">Saudi Arabia<\/a>","tag_info":"Saudi Arabia","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=140565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/140566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}