The account under June\u2019s name contained $2,641,903.18.<\/p>\n
I stared at the number until it stopped looking like money.<\/p>\n
It looked like evidence.<\/p>\n
The first deposit was $210,000.<\/p>\n
Three days after June\u2019s birth.<\/p>\n
Then smaller transfers.<\/p>\n
Insurance proceeds.<\/p>\n
Corporate distributions.<\/p>\n
Investment gains.<\/p>\n
Money moved from accounts connected to Lena\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n
Peter\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n
The reserve.<\/p>\n
Other sources investigators were still untangling.<\/p>\n
My daughter\u2019s name had become a vault.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy June?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
The financial analyst answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cMinors can be useful for long-term custodial structures.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUseful.\u201d<\/p>\n
I hated the word.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho opened it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVaughn initiated the paperwork. Your authorization appears forged.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRuth?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHer name doesn\u2019t appear.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes that mean she didn\u2019t know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evidence first.<\/p>\n
I almost said it with the analyst.<\/p>\n
Instead, I looked at the successor documents.<\/p>\n
If I died, Vaughn became custodian.<\/p>\n
If Vaughn became unavailable, control moved to the Mercer Children\u2019s Foundation.<\/p>\n
If the foundation failed, an external custodian took over.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Weaver.<\/p>\n
A chain.<\/p>\n
Every person positioned as another lock.<\/p>\n
Every signature either stolen or manipulated.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan June lose the money?\u201d<\/p>\n
Denise understood what I meant.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoney derived from crime can be recovered by rightful claimants.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
She studied me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not concerned about preserving it for her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not one dollar that belonged to someone else.<\/p>\n
June deserved shoes.<\/p>\n
College.<\/p>\n
A safe home.<\/p>\n
She did not deserve someone else\u2019s death benefit because her father hid it behind her birth certificate.<\/p>\n
The court froze the account.<\/p>\n
An independent receiver took control.<\/p>\n
I asked that neither I nor any family member be given access while ownership was litigated.<\/p>\n
Denise said the request was unusual.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMost people fight for control first.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve had enough people fighting for control.\u201d<\/p>\n
She nodded.<\/p>\n
The receiver began tracing deposits.<\/p>\n
The first major transfer led to a policy on someone named Robert Vance.<\/p>\n
Died nine years earlier.<\/p>\n
Heart attack.<\/p>\n
No obvious family connection.<\/p>\n
Another old death.<\/p>\n
Serrano searched the continuity archive.<\/p>\n
Robert appeared.<\/p>\n
Not as target.<\/p>\n
As CLIENT.<\/p>\n
That changed the shape again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does client mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
Investigators dug.<\/p>\n
Robert had paid Mercer Claims Solutions for help collecting a life-insurance benefit after his business partner died.<\/p>\n
The claim itself may have been legitimate.<\/p>\n
But part of Robert\u2019s payment was diverted into the reserve.<\/p>\n
The network had legitimate clients too.<\/p>\n
Fraud mixed with ordinary business.<\/p>\n
That was why the money was so difficult to separate.<\/p>\n
Not every dollar was stolen.<\/p>\n
Not every claim represented murder.<\/p>\n
The system hid criminal money among real transactions.<\/p>\n
Messy.<\/p>\n
Deliberately.<\/p>\n
By the third day, the receiver had identified enough legitimate earnings that June might eventually retain some assets.<\/p>\n
I did not ask how much.<\/p>\n
Not yet.<\/p>\n
Numbers had controlled enough of my attention.<\/p>\n
Emmett overheard Denise and me discussing the account.<\/p>\n
He waited until she left.<\/p>\n
\u201cJune is rich?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you said millions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe account has money in her name. That doesn\u2019t mean it belongs to her.\u201d<\/p>\n
He frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow can something have your name and not be yours?\u201d<\/p>\n
I almost laughed at the question.<\/p>\n
It was the entire story.<\/p>\n
\u201cA name on paper can be wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLike your death certificate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLike Dad signing your name.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLike Lena.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He thought about that.<\/p>\n
Then asked, \u201cDo I have one?\u201d<\/p>\n
I froze.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAccount.\u201d<\/p>\n
Serrano had searched policies and trusts under both children.<\/p>\n
Nothing comparable appeared under Emmett.<\/p>\n
But Emmett\u2019s question was obvious.<\/p>\n
If June had been used, why not him?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe checked.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not what I asked.\u201d<\/p>\n
He sounded so much like Mrs. Weaver that I almost smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you ask?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I have one.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t found one.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked dissatisfied.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe it\u2019s not my name.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room went quiet.<\/p>\n
I stared at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat makes you say that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Dad didn\u2019t put the other stuff in the right names.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ten years old.<\/p>\n
He had seen the pattern.<\/p>\n
Lena\u2019s identity.<\/p>\n
Caleb\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Mine.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Weaver\u2019s.<\/p>\n
June\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Why would we assume an account intended for Emmett would say Emmett Mercer?<\/p>\n
I called Serrano.<\/p>\n
Investigators searched using Emmett\u2019s birth date.<\/p>\n
Social Security number.<\/p>\n
Addresses.<\/p>\n
Known aliases.<\/p>\n
Then variations.<\/p>\n
Middle name.<\/p>\n
Initials.<\/p>\n
Dead identities connected to the same date.<\/p>\n
At 9:26 that evening, they found something.<\/p>\n
Not an account.<\/p>\n
A life-insurance trust.<\/p>\n
Named:<\/p>\n
Thomas E. Mercer Educational Trust.<\/p>\n
Thomas was dead.<\/p>\n
But the beneficiary birth date matched Emmett.<\/p>\n
The beneficiary Social Security number differed by one digit.<\/p>\n
Likely deliberate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho is Thomas?\u201d<\/p>\n
I asked, though I already knew the name from the archive.<\/p>\n
Vaughn\u2019s uncle.<\/p>\n
One of the deaths tied to the network.<\/p>\n
Thomas had died after mixing alcohol and medication.<\/p>\n
His identity remained active afterward.<\/p>\n
Like Lena.<\/p>\n
Like Caleb.<\/p>\n
The trust had been established two months after Emmett was born.<\/p>\n
\u201cValue?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cApproximately $1.1 million.\u201d<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
Both children.<\/p>\n
Different structures.<\/p>\n
Different dead identities.<\/p>\n
Same purpose.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens at eighteen?\u201d<\/p>\n
The analyst read.<\/p>\n
Beneficial control transfers to \u201cT.E.M.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ambiguous enough to be Thomas.<\/p>\n
Or Emmett\u2019s middle initial?<\/p>\n
Emmett\u2019s full name was Emmett Thomas Mercer.<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
Vaughn had named our son after his dead uncle.<\/p>\n
He told me Thomas had been a grandfather\u2019s name.<\/p>\n
Another lie.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he name Emmett for the account?\u201d<\/p>\n
No one could answer.<\/p>\n
Maybe.<\/p>\n
Maybe he genuinely liked the name.<\/p>\n
Again, affection and use could occupy the same room.<\/p>\n
I told Emmett only what he needed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is something connected to your name too.\u201d<\/p>\n
His face changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Dad did it to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe used paperwork connected to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs it bad money?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSome may be.\u201d<\/p>\n
He nodded slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cGive it back.\u201d<\/p>\n
The simplicity nearly undid me.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo whoever it belongs to?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if some belongs to you?\u201d<\/p>\n
He shrugged.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen keep that part.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ten.<\/p>\n
He understood restitution better than adults who had spent decades inventing reasons stolen money became theirs.<\/p>\n
Serrano later told prosecutors about Emmett\u2019s observation.<\/p>\n
It led investigators to search all beneficiary structures by dates and identifiers rather than names.<\/p>\n
They found eleven more.<\/p>\n
Some legitimate.<\/p>\n
Four suspicious.<\/p>\n
One belonged to a living woman who had no idea.<\/p>\n
A former employee of Daniel\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Another belonged to Marla\u2019s child.<\/p>\n
Another to a Porter cousin.<\/p>\n
The fourth used the identity of a dead infant.<\/p>\n
The network\u2019s succession architecture had been distributed across generations.<\/p>\n
File 28 was not merely an escape plan.<\/p>\n
It was an inheritance system.<\/p>\n
That explained why Ruth talked about money surviving people.<\/p>\n
She did not think in terms of one payout.<\/p>\n
She thought in generations.<\/p>\n
Ruth finally agreed to a formal proffer with prosecutors.<\/p>\n
Her attorneys wanted cooperation credit.<\/p>\n
Serrano asked whether I wanted updates.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not because I wanted to hear her justification.<\/p>\n
Because her information might protect people we had not found.<\/p>\n
Ruth admitted building the reserve after Peter\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
She disputed causing his fall.<\/p>\n
Admitted concealing information.<\/p>\n
Admitted manipulating claims.<\/p>\n
Admitted using Caleb\u2019s death financially.<\/p>\n
Denied planning his drowning.<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s account contradicted hers.<\/p>\n
So did parts of Evelyn\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Courts would decide what could be proved.<\/p>\n
Then she spoke about Vaughn.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was supposed to inherit the structure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Serrano asked, \u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe understood it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you train him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI taught him business.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou taught him target selection.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI taught him risk.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou taught him to isolate spouses financially.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruth reportedly smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI taught him never to depend on anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
There it was.<\/p>\n
The philosophy beneath everything.<\/p>\n
Dependence was weakness.<\/p>\n
Trust was leverage.<\/p>\n
Relationships were risk.<\/p>\n
So control became safety.<\/p>\n
Except control had not made any of them safe.<\/p>\n
Peter dead.<\/p>\n
Caleb dead.<\/p>\n
Lena dead.<\/p>\n
Megan dead.<\/p>\n
Ruth jailed.<\/p>\n
Vaughn jailed.<\/p>\n
Marla exposed.<\/p>\n
Elaina charged with murder.<\/p>\n
Daniel charged.<\/p>\n
The entire system built to prevent vulnerability had created nothing but danger.<\/p>\n
Serrano asked Ruth about my grocery budget.<\/p>\n
She admitted recognizing the method when Vaughn discussed it.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you tell him to impose eighty dollars?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you know why?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew he wanted Celia working more.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said cash flow.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you believe him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you think?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat he was preparing her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor death?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ruth paused.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor removal.\u201d<\/p>\n
A useful euphemism.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you stop him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCelia wasn\u2019t my responsibility.\u201d<\/p>\n
When Serrano told me, I sat very still.<\/p>\n
There are sentences so ugly they become clarifying.<\/p>\n
Celia wasn\u2019t my responsibility.<\/p>\n
Ruth had known.<\/p>\n
Maybe not every detail.<\/p>\n
Enough.<\/p>\n
And because I was outside the circle she considered hers, my life did not weigh against the structure.<\/p>\n
Yet she had forged my name into that structure.<\/p>\n
Used my children.<\/p>\n
Used my work.<\/p>\n
Used my credit.<\/p>\n
Responsibility apparently applied only when it cost nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did she say about June\u2019s account?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEmmett\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cKnew.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Vaughn?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy separate them?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRedundancy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
If one structure failed, the other survived.<\/p>\n
Even siblings turned into backups.<\/p>\n
Then Ruth gave investigators the final missing piece of the reserve.<\/p>\n
Not money.<\/p>\n
A ledger key.<\/p>\n
The original continuity archive contained coded victim designations investigators had not deciphered.<\/p>\n
Ruth explained them.<\/p>\n
There were no twenty hidden murders.<\/p>\n
Some codes represented claims.<\/p>\n
Some represented fraud.<\/p>\n
Some were contingency planning that never happened.<\/p>\n
This mattered.<\/p>\n
For weeks, every unexplained date had felt like another body waiting to be discovered.<\/p>\n
Reality was still terrible.<\/p>\n
But not every shadow contained a corpse.<\/p>\n
That distinction mattered too.<\/p>\n
Fear had a way of filling missing information with the worst possibility.<\/p>\n
Vaughn depended on that.<\/p>\n
So did Ruth.<\/p>\n
Now evidence narrowed the darkness.<\/p>\n
Investigators linked four deaths strongly enough for reopened homicide inquiries.<\/p>\n
Others remained suspicious.<\/p>\n
Some were likely accidents later exploited financially.<\/p>\n
No single answer would cover all of them.<\/p>\n
The truth was less elegant than the conspiracy.<\/p>\n
And more believable.<\/p>\n
That evening, Vaughn entered a preliminary plea on federal fraud counts.<\/p>\n
Guilty.<\/p>\n
I read the word twice.<\/p>\n
Not accused.<\/p>\n
Not alleged.<\/p>\n
Guilty.<\/p>\n
For years he had made me argue over what happened in my own kitchen.<\/p>\n
Now, in a courtroom, he had answered yes.<\/p>\n
Yes, he participated in fraud.<\/p>\n
Yes, forged financial structures existed.<\/p>\n
Yes, money moved illegally.<\/p>\n
Yes, identities were misused.<\/p>\n
The attempted-murder case remained.<\/p>\n
His lawyer contested intent.<\/p>\n
Owen\u2019s cooperation changed that.<\/p>\n
The mechanic admitted Vaughn paid him to drain brake fluid.<\/p>\n
Two hundred dollars.<\/p>\n
The receipt from Lakecrest was genuine.<\/p>\n
Owen said Vaughn told him the car needed to \u201cfail gradually.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not immediately.<\/p>\n
Not in the parking lot.<\/p>\n
On the road.<\/p>\n
Owen asked whether anyone would be driving.<\/p>\n
Vaughn said:<\/p>\n
\u201cMy wife. She\u2019s exhausted anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n
That statement, combined with sedatives, route notes, insurance inquiries, and the prewritten letter, gave prosecutors what they needed.<\/p>\n
Additional charges were filed.<\/p>\n
Attempted murder.<\/p>\n
Conspiracy.<\/p>\n
Insurance fraud.<\/p>\n
Witness manipulation.<\/p>\n
I read the charging document.<\/p>\n
My name appeared over and over.<\/p>\n
Victim C.M.<\/p>\n
For once, initials on official paper did not feel like theft.<\/p>\n
They named what had been done to me.<\/p>\n
Not what I supposedly agreed to.<\/p>\n
Then another document arrived.<\/p>\n
The credit union concluded its investigation.<\/p>\n
All unauthorized withdrawals from our savings would be restored.<\/p>\n
My children\u2019s legitimate savings too.<\/p>\n
$18,742.61.<\/p>\n
Almost exactly what should have been there before Vaughn emptied it.<\/p>\n
I stared at the balance.<\/p>\n
Not millions.<\/p>\n
Ours.<\/p>\n
Birthday checks.<\/p>\n
Small transfers.<\/p>\n
Money I saved ten dollars at a time.<\/p>\n
The amount made me cry harder than the frozen reserve ever had.<\/p>\n
Because I recognized it.<\/p>\n
It belonged to our life.<\/p>\n
I transferred the children\u2019s portions into new protected accounts under court-approved safeguards.<\/p>\n
Separate from every Mercer entity.<\/p>\n
No Vaughn.<\/p>\n
No Ruth.<\/p>\n
No foundation.<\/p>\n
No hidden successor.<\/p>\n
Just Emmett.<\/p>\n
June.<\/p>\n
Me as custodian.<\/p>\n
And an independent backup chosen openly.<\/p>\n
Mrs. Weaver refused.<\/p>\n
\u201cToo much paperwork.\u201d<\/p>\n
I smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho then?\u201d<\/p>\n
Denise recommended a professional fiduciary.<\/p>\n
We used one.<\/p>\n
No secret.<\/p>\n
No family loyalty.<\/p>\n
No handwritten contingencies.<\/p>\n
At dinner, June asked whether she could get the purple shoes.<\/p>\n
The original pair at Target was probably gone by now.<\/p>\n
I searched online.<\/p>\n
Found something similar.<\/p>\n
Twenty-nine dollars.<\/p>\n
She leaned over my shoulder.<\/p>\n
\u201cThose.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou sure?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I ordered them.<\/p>\n
Emmett watched.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan I get new basketball shoes?\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at his current pair.<\/p>\n
Still usable.<\/p>\n
He knew it too.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow badly do you need them?\u201d<\/p>\n
He smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot badly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen next month.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n
The answer was so ordinary that I almost laughed.<\/p>\n
Not deprivation.<\/p>\n
Not unlimited spending.<\/p>\n
Just a family deciding what to buy.<\/p>\n
Budgeting without punishment.<\/p>\n
Limits without control.<\/p>\n
That distinction would take time to relearn.<\/p>\n
Later that night, Serrano called.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found something in Vaughn\u2019s plea materials.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA letter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo who?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEmmett.\u201d<\/p>\n
My chest tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cCurrent?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWritten after arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHas he seen it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t give it to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe won\u2019t without your consent and guidance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does it say?\u201d<\/p>\n
Serrano hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cVaughn says he wants Emmett to understand why he did what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
Even now, Vaughn wanted narrative control.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe can understand when he\u2019s old enough to decide whether he wants to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs there anything evidentiary?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne line.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Serrano read it.<\/p>\n
I never wanted what happened to Caleb to happen to you.<\/p>\n
I went still.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy mention Caleb?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then I remembered Ruth\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n
Caleb\u2019s death had been personal.<\/p>\n
Daniel covered it.<\/p>\n
Vaughn had been sixteen.<\/p>\n
He said on Lena\u2019s recording:<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t do another Caleb.<\/p>\n
I had assumed that meant he witnessed it.<\/p>\n
Maybe more.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened to Caleb?\u201d<\/p>\n
The investigation had never fully answered.<\/p>\n
Serrano said quietly, \u201cWe\u2019re still working on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked toward Emmett\u2019s bedroom.<\/p>\n
Vaughn had named our son Emmett Thomas Mercer.<\/p>\n
Thomas from one dead relative.<\/p>\n
Had he shaped other parts of Emmett around another?<\/p>\n
\u201cI want you to ask Vaughn one question.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat exactly did he do to Caleb?\u201d<\/p>\n
The account under June\u2019s name contained $2,641,903.18. I stared at the number until it stopped looking like money. It looked like evidence. The first deposit was $210,000. Three days after … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12344","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\/12344","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=12344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12372,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12344\/revisions\/12372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}