{"id":26700,"date":"2026-05-22T09:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T13:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=26700"},"modified":"2026-05-07T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T14:00:07","slug":"enjoy-a-mocktail-this-memorial-day-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/22\/enjoy-a-mocktail-this-memorial-day-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Enjoy a Mocktail  this Memorial Day Weekend!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Watermelon-Cooler-photo-by-Rissa-Miller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26701\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Watermelon-Cooler-photo-by-Rissa-Miller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>Watermelon Cooler photo by Rissa Miller<\/p>\n<p>Are you in the mood for a creative non-alcoholic vegan beverage? A previous issue of our magazine featured an article titled \u201cNon-Alcholic Thirst Quenchers,\u201d by Mikiel Peratino. Mikiel is a former assistant manager and bartender at Great Sage vegan restaurant in Maryland. Enjoy recipes for Strawberry Fauxjito; Virgin Pi\u00f1a Colada; Warm Golden Pumpkin; Black Rose Mule; Watermelon Cooler; S\u2019mores Mudslide; Virgin Cucumber Basil Gimlet; and Butterfly Margarita. These drinks look absolutely gorgeous and will bring a smile to your face!<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/journal\/vj2020issue3\/2020_issue3_thirst_quenchers.php\">vrg.org\/journal\/vj2020issue3\/2020_issue3_thirst_quenchers.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To subscribe to <em>Vegan Journal<\/em> in the USA, see: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/member\/2013sv.php\">vrg.org\/member<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watermelon Cooler photo by Rissa Miller Are you in the mood for a creative non-alcoholic vegan beverage? A previous issue of our magazine featured an article titled \u201cNon-Alcholic Thirst Quenchers,\u201d by Mikiel Peratino. Mikiel is a former assistant manager and bartender at Great Sage vegan restaurant in Maryland. Enjoy recipes for Strawberry Fauxjito; Virgin Pi\u00f1a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26702,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26700\/revisions\/26702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}