Carol did not scream.<\/p>\n
That was my sister.<\/p>\n
If a meteor landed in her kitchen, she would probably complain first about the tile.<\/p>\n
Her voice remained low.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s at the end of the driveway.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you see his face?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes he look like the surveillance photograph?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never seen it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
\u201cOlder man. Dark jacket. Gray hair?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cCarol, listen to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am listening.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not go outside.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t planning to invite him for pie.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCarol.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
I heard a faint sound through the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe put something on the mailbox.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStay away from it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice are coming.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow long?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI hate that answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo do I.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then I heard another sound.<\/p>\n
A car engine.<\/p>\n
Carol whispered, \u201cHe\u2019s leaving.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not follow.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you think I\u2019m insane?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, selectively.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite everything, she laughed.<\/p>\n
That sound steadied both of us.<\/p>\n
Two patrol cars arrived within minutes.<\/p>\n
Victor was gone.<\/p>\n
The item on the mailbox was another envelope.<\/p>\n
Inside:<\/p>\n
Harold\u2019s photograph.<\/p>\n
A copy of the settlement agreement.<\/p>\n
And a note.<\/p>\n
MARGARET KNOWS WHAT HER HUSBAND TOOK.<\/p>\n
ONE MILLION ENDS THIS.<\/p>\n
The amount almost insulted me.<\/p>\n
After eighty-nine million, one million was meant to look small.<\/p>\n
Affordable.<\/p>\n
A nuisance fee.<\/p>\n
That was Victor\u2019s calculation.<\/p>\n
Detective Hale read the note at Carol\u2019s kitchen table.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s escalating.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s also lowering his price,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
Hale stared at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could acknowledge it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m working.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carol slid coffee toward him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWork with caffeine.\u201d<\/p>\n
He accepted this time.<\/p>\n
Progress.<\/p>\n
I examined Harold\u2019s photograph.<\/p>\n
It showed him near the railroad yard.<\/p>\n
Younger.<\/p>\n
Maybe fifty.<\/p>\n
Standing beside three men.<\/p>\n
Thomas Webb.<\/p>\n
Leonard Pierce.<\/p>\n
And Samuel Salazar.<\/p>\n
On the back, someone had circled Harold.<\/p>\n
Not Samuel.<\/p>\n
Harold.<\/p>\n
Victor\u2019s obsession had chosen its villain decades ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe really believes Dad stole from them,\u201d Daniel said.<\/p>\n
Richard shook his head.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not sure belief matters anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
Exactly.<\/p>\n
At some point grievance had become identity.<\/p>\n
If Victor accepted that Harold had done nothing wrong, he would have to reconsider half his life.<\/p>\n
Some people would rather protect the wound than lose the story built around it.<\/p>\n
Hale asked whether I was willing to cooperate with a controlled contact.<\/p>\n
Daniel immediately said no.<\/p>\n
Renee said, \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carol said, \u201cLet her hear the question.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Hale.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Victor contacts you directly, we want the communication preserved.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe may request a meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel exhaled.<\/p>\n
Hale continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do not want you confronting him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso obvious.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut we may need you to keep him talking by phone.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was different.<\/p>\n
\u201cFine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel turned toward me.<\/p>\n
\u201cMom.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI can speak on a telephone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t funny.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t have to prove anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was true.<\/p>\n
Three months earlier, I might have done something reckless just to demonstrate independence.<\/p>\n
Now independence meant making decisions based on consequences rather than pride.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Hale says it is safe, I will cooperate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel did not like it.<\/p>\n
He accepted it.<\/p>\n
That mattered.<\/p>\n
We moved Carol temporarily into Willow Creek.<\/p>\n
She objected until I reminded her she had once made me sleep on her sofa for nine days after Harold\u2019s surgery because she refused to let me be alone.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was different.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt felt different.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPack your bag.\u201d<\/p>\n
She complained the entire drive.<\/p>\n
By evening, my large dining table held more people than it ever had.<\/p>\n
Me.<\/p>\n
Carol.<\/p>\n
Daniel.<\/p>\n
Renee.<\/p>\n
Lily.<\/p>\n
Ethan.<\/p>\n
Richard.<\/p>\n
Seven chairs filled.<\/p>\n
Three empty.<\/p>\n
I noticed.<\/p>\n
Of course I did.<\/p>\n
Dinner came from a nearby Italian restaurant.<\/p>\n
Nobody let me cook.<\/p>\n
Ethan complained about that too.<\/p>\n
Afterward, Lily and Carol argued over cards.<\/p>\n
Renee loaded the dishwasher.<\/p>\n
Daniel dried.<\/p>\n
Richard sat on the porch taking a call.<\/p>\n
For perhaps twenty minutes, the house felt ordinary.<\/p>\n
Then my private phone rang.<\/p>\n
Unknown number.<\/p>\n
Every person in the kitchen stopped moving.<\/p>\n
Richard stepped inside.<\/p>\n
Detective Hale had arranged immediate recording through the security team.<\/p>\n
I looked at Daniel.<\/p>\n
He looked terrified.<\/p>\n
Not for money.<\/p>\n
For me.<\/p>\n
I answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cHello?\u201d<\/p>\n
A man\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n
Older.<\/p>\n
Controlled.<\/p>\n
\u201cMargaret Briggs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not a question.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carol moved toward me.<\/p>\n
Richard held up one hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cVictor.\u201d<\/p>\n
A pause.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou finally heard my name.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have heard quite a lot about you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked toward Hale\u2019s monitoring device.<\/p>\n
He had arrived before the call ended its first minute.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat truth?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour husband stole from my father.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victor\u2019s voice sharpened.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were not there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have the documents.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDocuments Harold controlled.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour father wrote letters.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father was weak.\u201d<\/p>\n
There it was.<\/p>\n
A son rewriting a parent to preserve grievance.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe sold willingly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe sold because Harold cornered him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe took payment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing compared to what the land became.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat happens with property.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou sound like his lawyer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. I sound like someone who read the file.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Then Victor said, \u201cHarold paid me once.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor silence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a release.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why pay me?\u201d<\/p>\n
The question was stronger than his others.<\/p>\n
Because Harold wanted peace.<\/p>\n
Because illness had changed the value of conflict.<\/p>\n
Because sometimes people pay to end false claims.<\/p>\n
But Victor would hear none of that.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe paid because he was dying and wanted this finished.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victor became quiet.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told you that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen you don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Neither did Victor.<\/p>\n
That was the trap.<\/p>\n
Memory fills gaps with whatever story best supports the person telling it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
He laughed softly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have his money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHis money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSome.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd eighty-nine million more.\u201d<\/p>\n
There it was.<\/p>\n
The lottery.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want one million.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI want what my family was denied.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat number seems strangely round for justice.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richard\u2019s eyes flicked toward me.<\/p>\n
Probably warning me not to antagonize him.<\/p>\n
Too late.<\/p>\n
Victor said, \u201cYou think this is funny?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen pay it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Simple.<\/p>\n
Clean.<\/p>\n
The word surprised even me.<\/p>\n
Victor went silent.<\/p>\n
\u201cMargaret.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne million is nothing to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
There it was.<\/p>\n
The argument everyone eventually reached.<\/p>\n
You can afford it.<\/p>\n
Therefore you should.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour granddaughter might disagree.\u201d<\/p>\n
Every person in the kitchen changed.<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s face went white.<\/p>\n
Renee gripped the counter.<\/p>\n
I kept my voice steady.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou will not mention her again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t set the terms.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cActually, I just did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hale gave me a sharp look.<\/p>\n
I ignored him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou photographed children. You contacted my grandson. You went to my sister\u2019s home. Whatever story you tell yourself about Harold is over.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victor breathed into the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe ruined my father.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour father wrote that he sold because he needed money.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
That landed.<\/p>\n
I continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wrote that he regretted how he handled the equipment.\u201d<\/p>\n
More silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wrote that Harold kept Leonard Pierce from calling police.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victor said nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour father asked Harold to keep you out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The line went dead quiet.<\/p>\n
Richard mouthed, Keep talking.<\/p>\n
So I did.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew you were angry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victor finally spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father was ashamed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said whatever Harold told him to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t understand what it was like.\u201d<\/p>\n
His voice changed then.<\/p>\n
Less polished.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou grow up watching other people get ahead. Your father works harder than them. Then one day he sells because he is desperate, and ten years later the thing he sold is worth twenty times more.\u201d<\/p>\n
There it was.<\/p>\n
Not theft.<\/p>\n
Regret.<\/p>\n
Resentment at hindsight.<\/p>\n
Harold had become the face attached to an outcome Victor could not accept.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand that pain.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, you don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. I understand losing someone and wishing the past had gone differently.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victor breathed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen pay what he owed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe owed you nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The old control vanished.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou rich people always say that.\u201d<\/p>\n
I almost laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cVictor, I became rich three months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
That fact punctured his script.<\/p>\n
\u201cI lived most of my life on a railroad pension and savings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have the land money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBlood money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
He exhaled hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne million.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFive hundred thousand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Even Hale\u2019s eyebrows rose.<\/p>\n
Negotiation.<\/p>\n
Victor had just exposed the truth more clearly than any document.<\/p>\n
Justice does not halve itself because the first offer fails.<\/p>\n
Money does.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019d rather risk your family?\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Lily.<\/p>\n
She stared at me.<\/p>\n
Scared.<\/p>\n
Furious.<\/p>\n
Trusting.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victor laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds like yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means I will not teach my grandchildren that threats earn rewards.\u201d<\/p>\n
The line went quiet again.<\/p>\n
Then Victor said softly, \u201cHarold should have told you everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sentence hurt because it was true.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hid what mattered.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAsk why.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI already know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause he thought protection meant carrying danger alone.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victor said nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
Across the room, Daniel\u2019s eyes filled.<\/p>\n
I continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I am not repeating that mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hale wrote something.<\/p>\n
Security personnel moved outside.<\/p>\n
Victor\u2019s call had been triangulated.<\/p>\n
Not exact.<\/p>\n
But enough to narrow.<\/p>\n
Victor said, \u201cYou sound just like him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll take that as a compliment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then the line disconnected.<\/p>\n
Hale was already moving.<\/p>\n
\u201cSignal hit near the old freight corridor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe land?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
Victor had gone back to the place where the entire grievance began.<\/p>\n
Police units moved.<\/p>\n
Hale left with them.<\/p>\n
We stayed.<\/p>\n
That was harder.<\/p>\n
Humans are not built for safe waiting.<\/p>\n
We wanted movement.<\/p>\n
Action.<\/p>\n
Anything.<\/p>\n
Instead we sat around the table.<\/p>\n
Carol shuffled cards without playing.<\/p>\n
Richard refreshed his phone.<\/p>\n
Renee held Lily\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n
Daniel stood at the window.<\/p>\n
Ethan whispered, \u201cDo you think they\u2019ll catch him?\u201d<\/p>\n
I answered honestly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
He nodded.<\/p>\n
No reassurance requested.<\/p>\n
No false certainty given.<\/p>\n
Twenty-eight minutes later, Hale called.<\/p>\n
They found Victor\u2019s car.<\/p>\n
Empty.<\/p>\n
Near the old parcel.<\/p>\n
Then they found something else.<\/p>\n
A makeshift campsite in an abandoned maintenance shed.<\/p>\n
Documents.<\/p>\n
Food.<\/p>\n
A radio scanner.<\/p>\n
Three prepaid phones.<\/p>\n
And photographs.<\/p>\n
Many photographs.<\/p>\n
He had been staying there.<\/p>\n
Watching the land his father once owned.<\/p>\n
Watching a grievance until it became home.<\/p>\n
But Victor was gone.<\/p>\n
Again.<\/p>\n
Daniel slammed his palm against the wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow does he keep disappearing?\u201d<\/p>\n
Richard said, \u201cBecause he knows the area.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hale\u2019s voice came through speakerphone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re searching.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he leave anything?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
A pause.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA recorder.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s on it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t processed everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything obvious?\u201d<\/p>\n
Another pause.<\/p>\n
\u201cA message for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room went silent.<\/p>\n
Hale hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cMargaret, I\u2019d rather you hear it tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel said, \u201cMom.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlay it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hale warned that the recording might be manipulative.<\/p>\n
Of course it would.<\/p>\n
I still listened.<\/p>\n
Static.<\/p>\n
Then Victor\u2019s voice.<\/p>\n
If you are hearing this, they found the shed.<\/p>\n
A pause.<\/p>\n
Harold always liked records. So do I.<\/p>\n
Another pause.<\/p>\n
Ask your attorney about the page missing from Box 286.<\/p>\n
Richard frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat page?\u201d<\/p>\n
Victor continued.<\/p>\n
The one that proves Harold knew what the corridor was worth before my father sold.<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
If that page exists, Margaret, everything changes.<\/p>\n
The recording ended.<\/p>\n
Nobody spoke.<\/p>\n
Then Richard said, \u201cI reviewed that file.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought so.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does \u2018thought so\u2019 mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
Richard looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe correspondence has numbered exhibits.\u201d<\/p>\n
He grabbed his laptop.<\/p>\n
A minute later he found the scanned index.<\/p>\n
Exhibit A.<\/p>\n
B.<\/p>\n
C.<\/p>\n
D.<\/p>\n
Then F.<\/p>\n
No E.<\/p>\n
A missing exhibit.<\/p>\n
Not proof of Victor\u2019s claim.<\/p>\n
But a gap.<\/p>\n
And Victor knew about it.<\/p>\n
The question was no longer only why Victor wanted money.<\/p>\n
It was how he knew Harold\u2019s file well enough to know exactly what was missing.<\/p>\n
Carol did not scream. That was my sister. If a meteor landed in her kitchen, she would probably complain first about the tile. Her voice remained low. \u201cHe\u2019s at the … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13549","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\/13549","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=13549"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13584,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13549\/revisions\/13584"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}