{"id":58919,"date":"2025-05-15T12:27:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=58919"},"modified":"2025-05-15T12:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T12:27:57","slug":"a-father-hon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=58919","title":{"rendered":"A father hon."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-196.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-58920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-196.png 480w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/image-196-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Teen Girl Asks Autistic Boy to Prom, and His Dad\u2019s Post Goes Viral<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A few years ago, Mike Larson shared a touching story on Facebook that continues to warm hearts. His son Jon, who has autism, was invited to prom by Maddi, a senior at Mike\u2019s school. She met Jon through a club that connects students with special needs and wanted him to experience a memorable prom night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maddi went the extra mile\u2014she wore Jon\u2019s favorite color (orange), booked a table at a restaurant serving his favorite foods (chocolate milk, fries, and chicken fingers), and made sure to get his parents\u2019 blessing before asking him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike shared the story to support kids with special needs and celebrate kindness. The post went viral, receiving over a million shares. Maddi, now married, remains humble about the moment, though it\u2019s become one of Mike\u2019s most cherished memories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThanks to Maddi, Jon had a night we never thought possible,\u201d Mike said. \u201cIt gives us hope in the goodness of people.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teen Girl Asks Autistic Boy to Prom, and His Dad\u2019s Post Goes Viral A few years ago, Mike Larson shared a touching story on Facebook that continues&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58921,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58919\/revisions\/58921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}