{"id":246918,"date":"2026-04-26T03:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246918\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T03:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T03:14:07","slug":"family-of-4-graduate-together-from-mdc-celebrate-collective-achievement-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/246918\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of 4 graduate together from MDC, celebrate collective achievement &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; One South Florida family is celebrating after they all graduated together from Miami-Dade College.<\/p>\n<p>The Lawson family immigrated from Jamaica to South Florida. On Saturday, they celebrated their collective achievement at the MDC Commencement ceremony at loanDepot Park.<\/p>\n<p>Both parents and their two daughters told 7News how special the moment was for the entire family. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a very incredible moment, it feels very surreal. I honestly never expected that I would be graduating with my family, but now that I am, I am very happy, very blessed, very grateful,\u201d said daughter Joviana Lawson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis journey was all because God has steered us accordingly and we are so excited for this moment to be walking the stage together as a family,\u201d said father Irving Lawson. <\/p>\n<p>The Lawsons said they supported each other throughout their academic journey, often studying together at home.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; One South Florida family is celebrating after they all graduated together from Miami-Dade College. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-246918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246918","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=246918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}