Evelyn arrived at my house twenty minutes after I photographed the envelope on the front door.<\/p>\n
She would not let me touch the original again.<\/p>\n
\u201cFingerprints?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably useless. But we preserve everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you think Cardinal sent it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTodd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnlikely.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is the interesting question.\u201d<\/p>\n
She placed the photocopy and envelope into separate plastic sleeves.<\/p>\n
The memorandum appeared authentic.<\/p>\n
It carried Cardinal\u2019s internal formatting, a project code matching other documents from Harold\u2019s locker, and Daniel Mercer\u2019s electronic signature.<\/p>\n
The payment amount was one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.<\/p>\n
Recipient concealed.<\/p>\n
Purpose:<\/p>\n
FACILITATION \/ LANDOWNER RELATIONS.<\/p>\n
I stared at those words.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey paid someone after Harold died.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo influence me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut nobody contacted me except Cardinal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Harold\u2019s children.\u201d<\/p>\n
That possibility had already occurred to me.<\/p>\n
I did not want to believe Melissa was involved.<\/p>\n
Todd was easy.<\/p>\n
His contract, his payments, his meeting with Daniel, his lies.<\/p>\n
Melissa was different.<\/p>\n
Cold sometimes.<\/p>\n
Entitled often.<\/p>\n
But I had no evidence she had sold anything.<\/p>\n
\u201cCould the payment be to Todd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan we find out?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEventually.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat means not quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat means not by guessing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn had a way of making impatience feel embarrassing.<\/p>\n
We met Bernard at his office.<\/p>\n
Walter joined by telephone.<\/p>\n
Bernard examined the memo and shook his head.<\/p>\n
\u201cHarold believed Cardinal had people operating through layers of consultants.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMeridian?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAmong others.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy not just deal directly?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo create distance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn said the larger problem was the source.<\/p>\n
Someone inside Cardinal or close to its project had leaked a confidential memo to me.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we use this in negotiation,\u201d she said, \u201cwe reveal that we have an internal source.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t have a source.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey won\u2019t know that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Our meeting with Cardinal was scheduled four days later at Evelyn\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
I spent those days learning.<\/p>\n
Not everything.<\/p>\n
Just enough.<\/p>\n
Evelyn made me read the easement line by line.<\/p>\n
I learned the difference between surface ownership and subsurface rights.<\/p>\n
I learned how a permanent access corridor could restrict future development.<\/p>\n
I learned that liability language mattered as much as purchase price.<\/p>\n
I learned that a company could offer you millions and still be asking for far more than it paid.<\/p>\n
Most of all, I learned not to fill silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople hate silence in negotiations,\u201d Evelyn told me. \u201cThey start negotiating against themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHarold loved silence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen use that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Cardinal delegation arrived at ten in the morning.<\/p>\n
Daniel Mercer came with two attorneys and a senior vice president named Charles Keene.<\/p>\n
Daniel shook my hand as though our phone conversations had been pleasant.<\/p>\n
\u201cMrs. Vance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Mercer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charles Keene was in his late fifties, silver-haired, smooth, and practiced.<\/p>\n
He offered condolences.<\/p>\n
I thanked him.<\/p>\n
Then we sat.<\/p>\n
Evelyn opened.<\/p>\n
\u201cCardinal requested this meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charles nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019d like to resolve the access issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAccess to what?\u201d Evelyn asked.<\/p>\n
The first lawyer shifted.<\/p>\n
Charles smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe transmission corridor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn waited.<\/p>\n
Nothing else came.<\/p>\n
I understood the move.<\/p>\n
They would discuss only the narrowest possible issue.<\/p>\n
Charles presented an improved offer.<\/p>\n
Five million dollars for a permanent easement plus annual payments.<\/p>\n
I felt my stomach tighten, but I kept my face still.<\/p>\n
Five million.<\/p>\n
Less than a year earlier, I would have considered that number unimaginable.<\/p>\n
Now I knew why it was being offered.<\/p>\n
Evelyn said, \u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charles did not blink.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t discussed terms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve discussed the most important one.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPrice?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cScope.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel leaned forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat scope concerns you?\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn placed Cardinal\u2019s own proposed easement on the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis language grants broad subsurface access.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor pipeline construction.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot exclusively.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur standard language\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs irrelevant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charles looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cMrs. Vance, I suspect your counsel is encouraging you to see complexity where there may be none.\u201d<\/p>\n
I said nothing.<\/p>\n
He waited.<\/p>\n
So did I.<\/p>\n
The silence stretched.<\/p>\n
Daniel shifted first.<\/p>\n
Charles continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cCardinal is prepared to pay you far above market value for a small portion of land.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still I said nothing.<\/p>\n
He finally looked at Evelyn.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes Mrs. Vance intend to participate?\u201d<\/p>\n
I answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m listening.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charles smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want a mutually beneficial solution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo did Harold.\u201d<\/p>\n
The smile disappeared for half a second.<\/p>\n
Daniel looked at his notes.<\/p>\n
Charles said, \u201cYour husband understood the project was important.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe also refused your offer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHarold was cautious.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was informed.\u201d<\/p>\n
That landed more cleanly.<\/p>\n
One lawyer whispered something to Daniel.<\/p>\n
Evelyn watched them.<\/p>\n
Then she asked, \u201cWhat did Cardinal know about the subsurface formation beneath Parcel 44-118 before approaching Harold?\u201d<\/p>\n
No one moved.<\/p>\n
Charles folded his hands.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not aware of any unusual formation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn nodded once.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen there\u2019s no reason to request subsurface storage access.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first lawyer spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have not requested storage rights.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn slid the proposed agreement toward him.<\/p>\n
\u201cSection 14.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at it.<\/p>\n
His face tightened.<\/p>\n
Daniel interrupted.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat clause is boilerplate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen remove it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can discuss revisions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Remove it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charles exhaled.<\/p>\n
\u201cCounsel, we\u2019re here to discuss pipeline access.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen your contract should say pipeline access.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the first time, their confidence weakened.<\/p>\n
I thought of Harold.<\/p>\n
Make them explain why they need every sentence.<\/p>\n
That was something he used to say about contracts generally.<\/p>\n
I had thought it was another old-man complaint.<\/p>\n
Now it felt like instruction.<\/p>\n
Charles turned to me.<\/p>\n
\u201cMrs. Vance, your property sits along a preferred corridor. We can redesign around it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why are we here?\u201d<\/p>\n
A mistake.<\/p>\n
Small.<\/p>\n
But I saw it immediately.<\/p>\n
His answer came too quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause redesign would delay the storage integration phase.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room froze.<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s head turned toward him.<\/p>\n
One lawyer looked down.<\/p>\n
Evelyn did not move at all.<\/p>\n
Storage integration.<\/p>\n
Not pipeline.<\/p>\n
Charles realized it.<\/p>\n
He tried to recover.<\/p>\n
\u201cI misspoke.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn\u2019s voice became almost gentle.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. You didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
He leaned back.<\/p>\n
\u201cCounsel\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just confirmed a separate storage component.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re discussing a regional project with multiple phases.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd one of those phases depends upon access to subsurface infrastructure connected to Mrs. Vance\u2019s parcel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI did not say that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou said storage integration.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis meeting is becoming unproductive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn looked at me.<\/p>\n
I understood.<\/p>\n
We could end it.<\/p>\n
I stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we\u2019re finished.\u201d<\/p>\n
Charles looked surprised.<\/p>\n
\u201cMrs. Vance\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou requested this meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou offered five million dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat offer remains available.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stared at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI encourage you to consider carefully before rejecting substantial guaranteed compensation for speculative future value.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHarold considered it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHarold is not here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The words struck harder than he intended.<\/p>\n
I think he knew it immediately.<\/p>\n
I put my folder into my handbag.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d I said. \u201cHe isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then I looked directly at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why you thought this would be easier.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobody answered.<\/p>\n
I walked out.<\/p>\n
Evelyn joined me in the hall.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was excellent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m shaking.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou waited until the door closed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI learned from a good teacher.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHarold?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou.\u201d<\/p>\n
She smiled.<\/p>\n
Two hours later Cardinal withdrew the five-million-dollar offer.<\/p>\n
By evening they replaced it with another.<\/p>\n
Seven and a half million.<\/p>\n
Evelyn declined without countering.<\/p>\n
The following day Todd arrived at my house.<\/p>\n
He did not call first.<\/p>\n
I saw his truck from the kitchen window.<\/p>\n
When I opened the door, he looked exhausted.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to stop.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood afternoon to you too.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m serious.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo am I.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stepped closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have no idea what you\u2019re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m learning quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCardinal can bury you in court.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Daniel tell you that?\u201d<\/p>\n
His face changed.<\/p>\n
There it was.<\/p>\n
Tiny.<\/p>\n
Enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would Mercer tell me anything?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ve met him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Todd looked away.<\/p>\n
I continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were paid by Meridian.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou sold Harold\u2019s records.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was trying to help him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wrote that you would say that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Todd\u2019s jaw tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe poisoned you against me before he died.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Your signature did that.\u201d<\/p>\n
I took a copy of the old Meridian contract from my folder.<\/p>\n
His face lost color.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere did you get that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLocker seventeen.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stared at me.<\/p>\n
For the first time since Harold died, I saw genuine fear.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad kept that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat else?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEnough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Todd pushed past me into the entryway.<\/p>\n
I stepped back.<\/p>\n
\u201cLeave.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to talk.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can talk from outside.\u201d<\/p>\n
He lowered his voice.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoreen, if you start digging into those old deals, you\u2019re going to create problems you don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor who?\u201d<\/p>\n
He did not answer.<\/p>\n
I watched him.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Cardinal pay you one hundred and fifty thousand dollars after Harold died?\u201d<\/p>\n
His face answered before his mouth did.<\/p>\n
Then he recovered.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n
I believed he was lying.<\/p>\n
But not necessarily about receiving the payment.<\/p>\n
His surprise looked real.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it wasn\u2019t you.\u201d<\/p>\n
He frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat wasn\u2019t me?\u201d<\/p>\n
Interesting.<\/p>\n
I said nothing.<\/p>\n
Todd realized he had been maneuvered.<\/p>\n
His anger returned.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think this is a game?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re going to build that project one way or another.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen they should redesign.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know what that costs?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently you do.\u201d<\/p>\n
He ran both hands over his face.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was trying to get Dad to be reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBy selling his information?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI had debts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere it is.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t understand what kind.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. And I don\u2019t need to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think Dad was some saint? He used money to control everybody.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Todd laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think leaving you that property wasn\u2019t control?\u201d<\/p>\n
The question hurt because a small part of me had asked it privately.<\/p>\n
Had Harold protected me?<\/p>\n
Or had he placed me inside a conflict he knew would continue?<\/p>\n
Todd saw the hesitation.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew this would happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe left you a grenade.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought of Harold\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n
He wanted the decision after his death to belong to me.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe left me a choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Todd looked at me with something close to pity.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen choose the money and walk away.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy do you care?\u201d<\/p>\n
He turned toward the door.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause some doors shouldn\u2019t be opened.\u201d<\/p>\n
I followed him onto the porch.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
He stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou found the mine records.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not a question.<\/p>\n
My pulse quickened.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
Todd looked toward the road.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad spent twenty years chasing that fantasy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe geology is real.\u201d<\/p>\n
He turned sharply.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou tested it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
His expression became complicated.<\/p>\n
Fear.<\/p>\n
Anger.<\/p>\n
Calculation.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho knows?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho knows, Doreen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEnough people.\u201d<\/p>\n
He swore.<\/p>\n
Then he said something I did not expect.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t tell Melissa.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t tell her anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
He walked to his truck.<\/p>\n
\u201cTodd.\u201d<\/p>\n
He opened the door.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t I tell Melissa?\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked back.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause you keep assuming I was the only one Dad stopped trusting.\u201d<\/p>\n
He drove away.<\/p>\n
I stood in the driveway with cold air moving beneath my coat.<\/p>\n
When I told Evelyn, she asked whether Todd might have been trying to divide the family.<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was frightened.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf Melissa?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf what she knows.\u201d<\/p>\n
That evening I called Bernard.<\/p>\n
He was quiet after I repeated Todd\u2019s warning.<\/p>\n
Then he said, \u201cThere is something Harold asked me not to discuss unless Melissa became involved in the property.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPerhaps.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, Bernard. We are finished with perhaps.\u201d<\/p>\n
He sighed.<\/p>\n
\u201cCome tomorrow morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTell me now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to show you documents.\u201d<\/p>\n
I did not sleep well.<\/p>\n
At eight the next morning, I sat across from Bernard as he opened an old estate file.<\/p>\n
Inside was a letter written by Melissa to Harold five years earlier.<\/p>\n
It was not affectionate.<\/p>\n
It was business.<\/p>\n
She urged him to sell Parcel 44-118 to a company that, at the time, had concealed its connection to Cardinal.<\/p>\n
The proposed price was shockingly low.<\/p>\n
Harold had written a note across the top.<\/p>\n
Melissa knows more than she says.<\/p>\n
Bernard handed me another document.<\/p>\n
A consulting agreement.<\/p>\n
Not Todd\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Melissa\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Different company.<\/p>\n
Different year.<\/p>\n
Same project code.<\/p>\n
She had been paid too.<\/p>\n
I felt physically ill.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThirty thousand initially.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd later?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought of the anonymous memo.<\/p>\n
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars.<\/p>\n
Recipient concealed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Melissa do for them?\u201d<\/p>\n
Bernard looked grim.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe provided information about Harold\u2019s health.\u201d<\/p>\n
For a moment I did not understand.<\/p>\n
Then I did.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow sick he was?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he might die?\u201d<\/p>\n
Bernard did not answer.<\/p>\n
He did not need to.<\/p>\n
I stood.<\/p>\n
My chair scraped violently against the floor.<\/p>\n
Harold\u2019s children had not simply waited to inherit.<\/p>\n
At least one of them had helped a company calculate when grief might make me vulnerable.<\/p>\n
And somebody inside Cardinal had decided that information was worth paying for.<\/p>\n
Evelyn arrived at my house twenty minutes after I photographed the envelope on the front door. She would not let me touch the original again. \u201cFingerprints?\u201d I asked. \u201cProbably useless. … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-insightdrama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10697,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10677\/revisions\/10697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}