{"id":96404,"date":"2025-12-26T16:57:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/96404\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T16:57:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T16:57:10","slug":"neighborsholiday-cocoa-with-a-side-of-hustle-st-lucie-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/96404\/","title":{"rendered":"Neighbors:Holiday cocoa with a side of hustle | St. Lucie County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Scarlett Sanders may be small but the young entrepreneur has big dreams.<\/p>\n<p>Scarlett, 7, wanted to earn a little money by selling something. After deciding to open a hot cocoa and cookie stand, she asked her mom to order a kit online that she could customize.<\/p>\n<p>She opened her stand on a Saturday just before Christmas and her mom, Rebecca Sanders, invited their neighbors through a community Facebook page. Several neighbors stopped by, including the Apostolico family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s really yummy cocoa,\u201d said 7-year-old Serafina Apostolico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI really want to run a business and I thought I could sell hot chocolate,\u201d said Scarlett. \u201cIn the summer time I could sell ice pops.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scarlett was then invited to do a pop-up of her cocoa stand at the community\u2019s golf cart parade the following day, a move which only bolstered the young girl\u2019s resolve.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to build my own shed and run an animal shelter,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m going to pay my workers and also put some in my wallet. I\u2019ll just work my way up to my dream of owning a business.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE \u2014 Scarlett Sanders may be small but the young entrepreneur has big dreams. Scarlett, 7,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96405,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":{"0":"post-96404","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","11":"tag-st_lucie"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96404\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}