{"id":377,"date":"2008-07-29T19:45:26","date_gmt":"2008-07-30T02:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/?p=377"},"modified":"2016-05-25T23:34:28","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T06:34:28","slug":"hi-ball-caffeinated-mineral-water-is-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/07\/hi-ball-caffeinated-mineral-water-is-nice","title":{"rendered":"Hi-Ball Caffeinated Mineral Water is Nice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/inline\/hiball.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"333\" class=\"rightinline\" \/>A couple of weeks ago, I ditched coffee. I was generally a one-iced-mocha-in-the-morning guy with the occasional refresher towards the end of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Bad.<\/p>\n<p>Coffee as part of a routine is kind of like cigarettes as part of a routine.  It&#8217;s not exactly good for you, and once you&#8217;re used to it, you need it just to feel &#8220;normal&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Quitting coffee, however, doesn&#8217;t mean I never want an occasional dose of caffeine.  There are all sorts of alternatives out there like Red Bull, Jolt, hot tea, or iced tea, but I think I found my favorite:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiballer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hi-Ball Sparkling Energy Water<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi-Ball tastes like San Pellegrino or Perrier, is available in plain or lightly flavored, and contains no sugar, <a href=\"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/archive\/2008\/07\/the-growing-sucralose-infestation\" target=\"_blank\">sucralose<\/a>, or other sweeteners.  Its caffeine comes naturally from guarana berries and it also contains 120% of your daily B vitamins (whatever those do).<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re looking for a reasonably harmless caffeinated drink to try, see if you can find Hi-Ball at your local store.  Most places around Seattle don&#8217;t have it but I&#8217;ve found a few that do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, I ditched coffee. I was generally a one-iced-mocha-in-the-morning guy with the occasional refresher towards the end of the day. Bad. Coffee as part of a routine is kind of like cigarettes as part of a routine. It&#8217;s not exactly good for you, and once you&#8217;re used to it, you need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-original","category-product-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeindustries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}