{"id":675962,"date":"2026-05-17T17:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/675962\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T17:54:13","slug":"friendship-bench-dc-offers-a-resource-for-mental-health-in-a-unique-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/675962\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship Bench DC offers a resource for mental health in a unique way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"GXQD5TAQTRAPLEP5UXIDPB7TLM\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">David Robinson always wanted somebody to talk with about what was on his mind, but never had the opportunity, he said. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"MG544BXSVFDC3CAOQ5RJR6VICU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">He knew of some perceived stigmas associated with traditional therapy for mental health, particularly among Black men, including fear of being judged or being ashamed of telling their story. Those same feelings arose when he thought of confiding in someone he knew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Robinson always wanted somebody to talk with about what was on his mind, but never had the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[49,48,84,393,394],"class_list":["post-675962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}