{"id":220756,"date":"2026-05-05T15:42:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220756\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T15:42:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T15:42:15","slug":"news-12-long-island-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/220756\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">One Nassau County student decided to shoot his shot for prom in a special way.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Aiden Roessler, a Floral Park Memorial High School student with autism, scored his date with a \u2018promposal\u2019 on the basketball court.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">With the help of his teacher and coach, Aiden surprised his longtime friend, Erin, by asking her to join him at the big dance.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">During halftime of Unified Basketball game, Aiden grabbed the microphone and presented Erin with a sign that read, \u201cI don\u2019t want to miss this shot, Erin will you go to the prom with me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Tara Roessler, Aiden\u2019s mom, tells News 12 Erin was very surprised and the whole crowd cheered when he posed his question.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cEven though he didn\u2019t win the game, he got the prom date,\u201d Tara added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Nassau County student decided to shoot his shot for prom in a special way. Aiden Roessler, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220757,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-220756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}