{"id":10491,"date":"2024-10-27T19:32:06","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T19:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2024\/10\/27\/colorado-big-brothers-big-sisters-guides-kids-combats-epidemic-of-loneliness\/137004\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T19:32:06","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T19:32:06","slug":"colorado-big-brothers-big-sisters-guides-kids-combats-epidemic-of-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/colorado-big-brothers-big-sisters-guides-kids-combats-epidemic-of-loneliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Big Brothers, Big Sisters guides kids, combats &#8220;epidemic of loneliness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/colorado-big-brothers-big-sisters-guides-kids-combats-epidemic-of-loneliness\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TDP-Z-BIG-SISTER-14-560x374.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/colorado-big-brothers-big-sisters-guides-kids-combats-epidemic-of-loneliness.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/STScube300x250-480x400.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/colorado-big-brothers-big-sisters-guides-kids-combats-epidemic-of-loneliness-1.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TDP-Z-BIG-SISTER-5-560x373.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/colorado-big-brothers-big-sisters-guides-kids-combats-epidemic-of-loneliness-2.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img src=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/colorado-big-brothers-big-sisters-guides-kids-combats-epidemic-of-loneliness-4.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<p>When Towani Clarke met 12-year-old Antoniece, she\u2019d been struggling with a way of living she describes as \u201cblinkered,\u201d moving through daily duties from her job at Nordstrom to the yoga classes she teaches to home.<\/p>\n<p>Clarke came to Colorado four years ago from Zambia, where she founded an Afro-chic women\u2019s clothes company.\u00a0 She missed the intergenerational contact common in Zambia. Her own children had grown.<\/p>\n<p>The Denver Post Season To Share is the annual holiday fundraising campaign for The Denver Post and The Denver Post Community Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Grants are awarded to local nonprofit agencies that provide life-changing programs to help low-income children, families and individuals move out of poverty toward stabilization and self-sufficiency. Visit seasontoshare.com for more information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2024\/10\/27\/big-brothers-big-sisters-seasontoshare-loneliness\/\">Read the rest of this story on TheKnow.DenverPost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Towani Clarke met 12-year-old Antoniece, she\u2019d been struggling with a way of living she describes as \u201cblinkered,\u201d moving through daily duties from her job at Nordstrom to the yoga classes she teaches to home. Clarke came to Colorado four years ago from Zambia, where she founded an Afro-chic women\u2019s clothes company.\u00a0 She missed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5104,2435,9,8329,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[5109,2436,8330],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}