{"id":3244,"date":"2025-08-06T16:14:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3244"},"modified":"2025-08-06T16:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T16:14:46","slug":"the-heartbreaking-and-uplifting-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=3244","title":{"rendered":"The Heartbreaking And Uplifting Story"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypositiveinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1044380_694267940626194_1564633160_n.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11177\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Judged by Appearances<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Society still often judges people by looks. \u201cThe outside look is the first impression for all of us.\u201d Jono Lancaster, born in 1985 with Treacher Collins syndrome, experienced this firsthand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Abandoned at Birth<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctors warned Jono\u2019s parents he might never walk or talk. \u201cWhen I was born, my parents were in total shock\u2026 I was out of the hospital 36 hours after I was born,\u201d Jono shared at the 2015 Nord Conference. His parents left him, but a foster carer named Jean stepped in, asking, \u201cWhen can I take him home?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Growing Up Different<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Though raised with love, school was hard. Classmates avoided him. \u201cI felt like I was on my own\u2026 Why did I have to end up looking like this?\u201d Jono said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailypositiveinfo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/lady13.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11178\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A New Family<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>After years of rejection, Jean adopted him in 1990. \u201cThis lady adopted me\u2026 This lady is an angel, sent to me when I needed one the most,\u201d Jono wrote on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judged by Appearances Society still often judges people by looks. \u201cThe outside look is the first impression for all of us.\u201d Jono Lancaster, born in 1985 with Treacher Collins syndrome, experienced this firsthand. Abandoned at Birth Doctors warned Jono\u2019s parents he might never walk or talk. \u201cWhen I was born, my parents were in total&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3246,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3244\/revisions\/3246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}