{"id":6590,"date":"2025-10-06T14:35:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=6590"},"modified":"2025-10-06T14:35:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T14:35:35","slug":"dad-celebrates-teen-who-took-his-autistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=6590","title":{"rendered":"Dad celebrates teen who took his autistic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>A Prom Night to Remember: A Story That Restores Faith in Humanity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Heartwarming Gesture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teacher&nbsp;<strong>Mike Larson<\/strong>&nbsp;shared an emotional Facebook story about his autistic son,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jon<\/strong>, and a girl named&nbsp;<strong>Maddi<\/strong>&nbsp;who asked if she could take him to prom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe came to my office and asked if Jon\u2019s mom and I would allow her to take him to prom,\u201d Mike wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kindness in Action<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maddi met Jon through a school club that promotes friendships between special needs and regular students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wanting him to have \u201cthe best night ever,\u201d she wore his favorite color, orange,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and planned dinner at a restaurant serving his favorite foods\u2014chicken fingers, fries, and chocolate milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Viral Message<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike\u2019s post went viral, reaching over a million shares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said he wanted \u201cto show support for special kids like Jon\u201d and to remind people \u201cthere are wonderful kids like Maddi.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/readupdatednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/prom1-400x210-1-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16498\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A Lasting Memory<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Years later, Jon is happy and Maddi is married.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike calls it \u201cone of the nicest memories of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Prom Night to Remember: A Story That Restores Faith in Humanity A Heartwarming Gesture Teacher&nbsp;Mike Larson&nbsp;shared an emotional Facebook story about his autistic son, Jon, and a girl named&nbsp;Maddi&nbsp;who asked if she could take him to prom. \u201cShe came to my office and asked if Jon\u2019s mom and I would allow her to take&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6591,"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-6590","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\/6590","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=6590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6592,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6590\/revisions\/6592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}