I looked at Dad.<\/p>\n
He looked genuinely confused.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is he talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin did not seem surprised by the denial.<\/p>\n
\u201cThree hundred thousand dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad shook his head.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFive years ago. Hawthorne Development account.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s expression changed.<\/p>\n
That account name meant something.<\/p>\n
He walked toward the desk.<\/p>\n
\u201cHawthorne invested in Ridgeway.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t fund an offer for Northstar.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin folded his arms.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou funded Ridgeway. Ridgeway funded the offer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not the same thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d I said. \u201cBut you gave Thomas my business plan before investing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad turned toward me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI invested because Thomas told me Ridgeway had a diversified strategy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you know Daniel was involved?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMom?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently none of us knew anything about anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobody contradicted her.<\/p>\n
I asked Dad when he invested.<\/p>\n
He gave the month.<\/p>\n
Two weeks after refusing to introduce me to his investor contacts.<\/p>\n
I stared at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou told me putting money into Northstar would be irresponsible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI believed it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen you put three hundred thousand dollars into the fund that tried to buy part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know that was what they were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you gave them the plan.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd when Ridgeway approached me, you never mentioned you were an investor.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know they had approached you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Thomas never tell you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin stepped in.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat part may be true.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas and Daniel specifically discussed keeping Richard unaware.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Daniel believed you would object if he understood the structure.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad laughed without humor.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe finally got something right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom sat on the edge of the sofa.<\/p>\n
The house had become crowded with police, attorneys, family, and boxes of evidence, yet she seemed alone inside it.<\/p>\n
Maya stood near her.<\/p>\n
Not touching.<\/p>\n
Not yet.<\/p>\n
Julian asked Martin to explain Ridgeway from the beginning.<\/p>\n
Martin sighed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe started as a legitimate investment partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow legitimate?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEntirely, at first.\u201d<\/p>\n
He had known Daniel through commercial real estate. Thomas joined because he had access to private opportunities and family-office clients.<\/p>\n
Martin claimed he did not know Thomas was using confidential information.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen Northstar appeared.\u201d<\/p>\n
I folded my arms.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy stolen business plan.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew where it came from?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot initially.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen did you learn?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the offer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you stayed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin looked ashamed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
That mattered.<\/p>\n
Helping now did not erase helping then.<\/p>\n
He continued.<\/p>\n
Northstar had looked risky but promising. Ridgeway created a special investment vehicle and approached us through intermediaries.<\/p>\n
I remembered the offer.<\/p>\n
At the time, I had been thrilled anyone wanted a quarter of the company.<\/p>\n
Then I read the terms.<\/p>\n
Board control.<\/p>\n
Veto rights.<\/p>\n
Preferential liquidation.<\/p>\n
Rights over future financing.<\/p>\n
It was less investment than capture.<\/p>\n
I rejected it.<\/p>\n
Thomas apparently expected Dad to pressure me.<\/p>\n
Dad never did because Thomas never told him.<\/p>\n
Daniel tried another route.<\/p>\n
Mom.<\/p>\n
I looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Daniel ask you to convince me?\u201d<\/p>\n
She nodded slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said you had turned down good investors.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou called me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
I remembered.<\/p>\n
Mom had called one evening while I was still in the office.<\/p>\n
She told me I was stubborn.<\/p>\n
She said I would destroy my career because I could not accept advice.<\/p>\n
She never mentioned Ridgeway.<\/p>\n
I had assumed Dad had complained to her.<\/p>\n
Now I understood.<\/p>\n
\u201cDaniel told you what to say.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom looked ashamed.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you didn\u2019t tell me he was involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said you would reject the advice if you knew it came from family.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you deceived me because you thought I would object to being deceived.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her eyes filled.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The absurdity needed no commentary.<\/p>\n
Martin continued.<\/p>\n
When Northstar secured outside funding at a substantially higher valuation, Ridgeway\u2019s opportunity disappeared.<\/p>\n
Daniel became furious.<\/p>\n
Thomas became interested in the trust instead.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Grandpa had already blocked them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grandma asked whether her husband had ever told Martin why he distrusted Thomas.<\/p>\n
Martin nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe suspected Thomas was leaking client information.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he have proof?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Daniel know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grandma\u2019s face hardened.<\/p>\n
That hurt more than anything Martin had said.<\/p>\n
Her son had known her dying husband distrusted Thomas and still continued working with him.<\/p>\n
Maya sat beside her.<\/p>\n
This time she took Grandma\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n
Grandma allowed it.<\/p>\n
Julian turned toward Dad.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen did your financial trouble begin?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout three years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
That placed it after Ridgeway failed to acquire Northstar.<\/p>\n
Martin nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas saw the opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat opportunity?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou needed capital.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDaniel needed access to the trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s expression went cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the loans were designed to fail.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot necessarily.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were designed to increase dependence.\u201d<\/p>\n
The distinction was ugly.<\/p>\n
Thomas arranged financing that kept Dad\u2019s projects alive but demanded increasing collateral.<\/p>\n
Each rescue made the next crisis larger.<\/p>\n
Each crisis gave Thomas more influence.<\/p>\n
Dad had believed he was buying time.<\/p>\n
Thomas had been buying control.<\/p>\n
Mom whispered, \u201cWhy didn\u2019t you tell us?\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I was making money too.\u201d<\/p>\n
At least he did not pretend otherwise.<\/p>\n
\u201cI left Ridgeway when I found the first falsified authorization.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d Julian asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
My contact authorization.<\/p>\n
He had seen it.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew my signature was forged?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI suspected.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you did nothing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI confronted Thomas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not doing something.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you call me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe police?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGrandma?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked down.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was afraid of my own exposure.\u201d<\/p>\n
I nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen don\u2019t describe yourself as someone who stopped them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n
That answer cooled some of my anger.<\/p>\n
Not because it excused him.<\/p>\n
Because he was finally speaking without decoration.<\/p>\n
Julian asked why Martin changed his mind now.<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas contacted me six months ago. He wanted old Ridgeway records destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe same time he resigned from active practice?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNorthstar\u2019s lawyers were getting close.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian looked at me.<\/p>\n
I understood.<\/p>\n
The acquisition dispute.<\/p>\n
One of our deals had touched property held through entities connected to the family trust.<\/p>\n
Our ordinary diligence had begun pulling threads Thomas thought permanently buried.<\/p>\n
My success had not merely threatened their plan financially.<\/p>\n
It had created the investigative machinery capable of discovering it.<\/p>\n
Martin continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cI kept copies.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInsurance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad scoffed.<\/p>\n
\u201cConscience?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin met his eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cFear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Again, an answer I believed.<\/p>\n
He had hidden records in the old Ridgeway office.<\/p>\n
When he learned Thomas planned to leave the country, he contacted me anonymously.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy not call directly?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I didn\u2019t know who was monitoring Thomas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the office?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian\u2019s expression hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
The security guard\u2019s blood had made that clear.<\/p>\n
I asked about Grandpa\u2019s letter.<\/p>\n
Martin had found it among files Thomas stored after closing Ridgeway.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did Thomas have it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grandma answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe took it from the trust file.\u201d<\/p>\n
Probably.<\/p>\n
The obvious answer was often enough.<\/p>\n
Then Maya asked the question everyone had avoided.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens to Dad?\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad looked at her.<\/p>\n
Julian remained careful.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat depends on what investigators conclude he knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI signed loans.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI used the money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI accepted Clara\u2019s consent without asking Clara.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Each answer landed like a nail.<\/p>\n
Dad looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI should have called.\u201d<\/p>\n
I said nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI should have asked.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought you would enjoy telling me no.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sentence surprised me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked embarrassed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I would have.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf our positions were reversed.\u201d<\/p>\n
He sat down.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you had come to me needing millions after refusing my advice for years, I would have made you feel small before helping.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobody spoke.<\/p>\n
Dad looked toward the floor.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I assumed you would do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was perhaps the saddest thing he had ever told me.<\/p>\n
He had imagined my cruelty by consulting his own.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that now.\u201d<\/p>\n
I swallowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. You don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked up.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou still don\u2019t know what I would have done because you never gave me the choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
He nodded.<\/p>\n
Fair.<\/p>\n
Mom began crying quietly.<\/p>\n
Not theatrically.<\/p>\n
No hand over her heart.<\/p>\n
No demand that anyone comfort her.<\/p>\n
Just tears.<\/p>\n
Maya looked at her for several seconds.<\/p>\n
Then handed her a tissue.<\/p>\n
Mom took it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was the gentlest exchange I had seen between them all night.<\/p>\n
Police eventually finished the initial search.<\/p>\n
Thomas and Daniel were being questioned.<\/p>\n
Evidence would be cataloged.<\/p>\n
No one could promise charges.<\/p>\n
No one could promise the house.<\/p>\n
No one could promise anything.<\/p>\n
By four in the morning, exhaustion had flattened everyone.<\/p>\n
Julian suggested we stop.<\/p>\n
Maya looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere are you going?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHotel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur room?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
She nodded.<\/p>\n
Pain crossed her face.<\/p>\n
He looked equally miserable.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan we talk tomorrow?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you still leaving me?\u201d<\/p>\n
He hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what we are yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
She swallowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s better than no.\u201d<\/p>\n
He did not answer.<\/p>\n
Before leaving, Julian pulled me aside.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not make financial decisions tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t planning to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were considering saving the house.\u201d<\/p>\n
I frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I know you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know me professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know your professional weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat weakness?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou solve problems other people create because leaving them unsolved makes you uncomfortable.\u201d<\/p>\n
I wanted to argue.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, he was right.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll wait.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
He left.<\/p>\n
Grandma went upstairs to rest.<\/p>\n
Maya remained with Mom.<\/p>\n
Dad and I stood alone in the study.<\/p>\n
Smoke still lingered from the burned papers.<\/p>\n
He looked at the fireplace.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour grandfather never liked me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not what Grandma said.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe respected me until I started borrowing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe he was worried.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought he was old-fashioned.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout debt?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked toward me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought you were like him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs that bad?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought it was.\u201d<\/p>\n
The answer carried years.<\/p>\n
He walked to the window.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you left Dallas, I told everyone you couldn\u2019t handle criticism.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaya told me.\u201d<\/p>\n
He closed his eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI lied.\u201d<\/p>\n
I waited.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou didn\u2019t leave because of the argument about Northstar.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n
He turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe night before you left.\u201d<\/p>\n
I remembered.<\/p>\n
Dinner.<\/p>\n
Mom had spent an hour explaining why my startup was embarrassing.<\/p>\n
Dad told me to abandon it.<\/p>\n
Maya said almost nothing.<\/p>\n
I packed the next morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was why I left.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad shook his head.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was why you thought you left.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you do?\u201d<\/p>\n
His face changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI called your landlord.\u201d<\/p>\n
My pulse slowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were behind on the office lease.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were negotiating an extension.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas told me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
Dad continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cI paid the arrears.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI paid six months.\u201d<\/p>\n
I had never known.<\/p>\n
Our landlord had suddenly stopped threatening eviction.<\/p>\n
I assumed an investor extension had bought us time.<\/p>\n
Dad had paid.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I thought the company would fail and I didn\u2019t want you personally bankrupt.\u201d<\/p>\n
My throat tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you tell me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause you would have refused.\u201d<\/p>\n
Probably.<\/p>\n
He almost smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told the landlord not to tell you.\u201d<\/p>\n
For one strange moment, the man in front of me became harder to hate.<\/p>\n
Then he added:<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas arranged the payment.\u201d<\/p>\n
The feeling vanished.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe moved it through Hawthorne.\u201d<\/p>\n
The same account that invested in Ridgeway.<\/p>\n
I understood before Dad did.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere did the six months of rent money come from?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy account.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you sure?\u201d<\/p>\n
He frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cI authorized it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat isn\u2019t what I asked.\u201d<\/p>\n
We pulled the old banking records.<\/p>\n
Hawthorne had sent the payment.<\/p>\n
But two days earlier, Hawthorne had received an identical amount.<\/p>\n
The incoming transfer originated from Ridgeway Strategic Partners.<\/p>\n
Dad stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought that was a distribution.\u201d<\/p>\n
My skin prickled.<\/p>\n
Ridgeway funded my office lease through Dad.<\/p>\n
Then later claimed leverage over Northstar.<\/p>\n
Why?<\/p>\n
We searched further.<\/p>\n
Martin had left copies of the Ridgeway ledger.<\/p>\n
The payment was categorized with a code.<\/p>\n
NS-CONVERTIBLE.<\/p>\n
Julian answered on the first ring despite having left twenty minutes earlier.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
I told him.<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not touch anything else.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does NS-CONVERTIBLE mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI can guess.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo can I.\u201d<\/p>\n
If Ridgeway had characterized the payment as a convertible investment in Northstar, they might once have intended to claim equity based on money I never knew they provided.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I never signed a note.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen they had nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnless they created one.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n
We searched the lockbox inventory.<\/p>\n
There it was.<\/p>\n
A convertible note.<\/p>\n
Northstar Sentinel Group.<\/p>\n
Sixty thousand dollars.<\/p>\n
Five years old.<\/p>\n
Bearing my signature.<\/p>\n
Perfect.<\/p>\n
Because it was probably genuine ink attached to the wrong document.<\/p>\n
The note contained an aggressive conversion provision.<\/p>\n
At today\u2019s value, if enforceable, the resulting stake could be worth tens of millions.<\/p>\n
Dad stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was my fault.\u201d<\/p>\n
I barely heard him.<\/p>\n
Because the document contained another signature.<\/p>\n
A witness.<\/p>\n
Someone certifying that she personally saw me execute the note.<\/p>\n
I recognized the name.<\/p>\n
So did Dad.<\/p>\n
So would Maya.<\/p>\n
The witness was my mother.<\/p>\n
I looked at Dad. He looked genuinely confused. \u201cWhat is he talking about?\u201d Martin did not seem surprised by the denial. \u201cThree hundred thousand dollars.\u201d Dad shook his head. \u201cNo.\u201d … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13418","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\/13418","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=13418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13446,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13418\/revisions\/13446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}