Evelyn knew about Northstar.<\/p>\n
She admitted it immediately when Margaret called.<\/p>\n
Her silence afterward lasted so long that I thought the line had dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvelyn?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Robert reimburse Daniel after the Northstar loss?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
She told us.<\/p>\n
The figure was larger than the sixty-two-thousand-dollar payment we had found.<\/p>\n
That transfer had been only part of the story.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was Northstar?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cA private investment group.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLike Daniel\u2019s?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn sounded offended.<\/p>\n
Then she caught herself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean\u2014I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian leaned toward the speaker.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Daniel manage it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. He invested.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith whose money?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHis own.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly his own?\u201d<\/p>\n
Another pause.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhose?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRobert\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
Another family member.<\/p>\n
Another blurred line.<\/p>\n
Evelyn continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cDaniel convinced Robert to invest. He said the manager was brilliant. They would double part of the money in a few years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe manager hid losses.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room went silent.<\/p>\n
I looked at Margaret.<\/p>\n
She looked at me.<\/p>\n
The sentence repeated Daniel\u2019s future before he had lived it.<\/p>\n
Evelyn heard the silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Adrian answered carefully.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease continue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNorthstar was in trouble for months before anyone knew. Daniel kept telling Robert it would recover.\u201d<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
Of course he had.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the truth came out,\u201d Evelyn said, \u201cRobert lost money. Daniel lost more. There was a lawsuit. Daniel was ashamed because he brought Robert into it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Robert blame him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
That answer came immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cRobert blamed himself for trusting Daniel\u2019s judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn\u2019s voice softened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat nearly destroyed Daniel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Daniel do?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe borrowed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom whom?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBusiness line. Credit cards. Wherever he could.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo repay Robert?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at the table.<\/p>\n
This was not simply history repeating.<\/p>\n
It was history teaching him exactly the wrong lesson.<\/p>\n
He had seen someone hide investment losses.<\/p>\n
He had seen trust destroyed.<\/p>\n
He had then responded by borrowing to conceal his own part in the damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then Robert found out,\u201d Evelyn said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe paid off most of Daniel\u2019s debt.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Daniel had just started the company. Robert was afraid bankruptcy would ruin him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another rescue.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did Daniel react?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe cried.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn\u2019s voice cracked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had never seen him cry like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Robert say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat this was the last time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The handwritten note made sense now.<\/p>\n
If business ever gets bad, tell me before you borrow to hide it.<\/p>\n
Losing money is survivable.<\/p>\n
Losing trust is harder.<\/p>\n
Ask for help early.<\/p>\n
Robert had written from experience.<\/p>\n
Not intuition.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe warned him exactly what not to do,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Daniel did all of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn said nothing.<\/p>\n
Adrian searched the old Northstar records.<\/p>\n
The similarities were uncomfortable.<\/p>\n
Optimistic performance reporting.<\/p>\n
Delayed disclosure.<\/p>\n
New money masking old losses.<\/p>\n
Confidence maintained long after financial reality weakened.<\/p>\n
Daniel had spent years describing Northstar\u2019s manager as dishonest.<\/p>\n
Then, slowly, he had reproduced parts of the same behavior.<\/p>\n
Not necessarily by conscious imitation.<\/p>\n
Maybe by desperation.<\/p>\n
Maybe because he had learned that the worst part of failure was being discovered before recovery.<\/p>\n
That afternoon, Rebecca asked Daniel directly whether Northstar influenced his later decisions.<\/p>\n
His written response came back surprisingly quickly.<\/p>\n
Yes.<\/p>\n
One word.<\/p>\n
Then a longer explanation.<\/p>\n
He had believed Northstar failed because the manager ran out of time.<\/p>\n
Not because hiding the losses itself was wrong.<\/p>\n
That sentence disturbed me more than almost anything else.<\/p>\n
He had learned the opposite lesson from his father.<\/p>\n
Robert believed early honesty might have saved trust.<\/p>\n
Daniel believed more time might have saved the money.<\/p>\n
Everything afterward flowed from that.<\/p>\n
The first business loss.<\/p>\n
The loan from Robert.<\/p>\n
Never again.<\/p>\n
Then another loss.<\/p>\n
A larger risk to fix it.<\/p>\n
Another hidden obligation.<\/p>\n
More time purchased with someone else\u2019s money.<\/p>\n
A spiral disguised as patience.<\/p>\n
That evening, I found Ethan sitting on the floor beside his bridge shelf.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFixing the old one.\u201d<\/p>\n
The broken prototype lay across his knees.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou said you wanted to keep it broken.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI changed my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
He pressed glue into a cracked joint.<\/p>\n
I sat beside him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill it be as strong as the new one?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause the wood split.\u201d<\/p>\n
He pointed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can glue it, but it\u2019s still split.\u201d<\/p>\n
Children and accidental metaphors again.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo why fix it?\u201d<\/p>\n
He shrugged.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to hold books anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat will it do?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSit there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s an important job?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I smiled.<\/p>\n
Maybe not everything needed restoration to its original purpose.<\/p>\n
Some things could remain changed and still deserve a place.<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s next scheduled visit happened Sunday.<\/p>\n
He asked to take Ethan to a science museum.<\/p>\n
I agreed.<\/p>\n
Claire insisted all pickup and return times remain written.<\/p>\n
Daniel complied.<\/p>\n
At noon, I received a picture from him.<\/p>\n
Ethan standing beside a model rocket, grinning.<\/p>\n
No message.<\/p>\n
Just the photograph.<\/p>\n
I did not respond.<\/p>\n
At five, they returned.<\/p>\n
Ethan talked for twenty straight minutes about orbital velocity.<\/p>\n
Daniel listened.<\/p>\n
Actually listened.<\/p>\n
When Ethan went inside, Daniel remained near the curb.<\/p>\n
\u201cI told Rebecca about Northstar.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMom talked to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hate that she knows all this.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe lived some of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot this part.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich part?\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked tired again.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat I became him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVictor Shaw.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Northstar manager.<\/p>\n
I had not known his name.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know enough about him to say.\u201d<\/p>\n
He almost smiled.<\/p>\n
Margaret\u2019s accuracy had infected me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI spent ten years thinking he was evil,\u201d Daniel said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat changed?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
He rubbed his hands together.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
I waited.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Northstar fell apart, I thought if Victor had just told us earlier, we could have done something. Then later I started thinking maybe if he\u2019d had more time, he could have fixed it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that became permission.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI guess.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Don\u2019t guess.\u201d<\/p>\n
He met my eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
That mattered.<\/p>\n
A small thing.<\/p>\n
Still.<\/p>\n
\u201cI kept thinking one good quarter would fix everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd when it didn\u2019t?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe next quarter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe next.\u201d<\/p>\n
His voice became rough.<\/p>\n
\u201cI stopped seeing people. I saw deadlines.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was closer to the truth than anything he had said before.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarcus was a deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour mother.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMarianne.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEthan.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel flinched.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMe.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at the pavement.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I wanted to be cruel.<\/p>\n
For one sharp second, I wanted him to feel every reduction.<\/p>\n
Instead, I said, \u201cThat\u2019s what you need to understand before you ever ask anyone to trust you again.\u201d<\/p>\n
He nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou keep saying that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m starting to mean different things by it.\u201d<\/p>\n
I believed him.<\/p>\n
Not enough to trust him.<\/p>\n
Enough to notice.<\/p>\n
Monday brought the first formal offer regarding the house.<\/p>\n
The second-mortgage lender preferred a negotiated sale over prolonged enforcement.<\/p>\n
If Daniel cooperated, the house could be listed, sold, and proceeds distributed according to lawful priority.<\/p>\n
There would likely be little or nothing left afterward.<\/p>\n
Daniel agreed.<\/p>\n
No fight.<\/p>\n
No last attempt to refinance.<\/p>\n
No request for me to intervene.<\/p>\n
That surprised everyone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat changed?\u201d I asked Rebecca during a joint call.<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked him whether he wanted to save the house or reduce harm.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said he no longer knows how to save the house.\u201d<\/p>\n
The listing went live three days later.<\/p>\n
I made the mistake of opening it online.<\/p>\n
There was my kitchen.<\/p>\n
Professionally photographed.<\/p>\n
Bright.<\/p>\n
Empty of people.<\/p>\n
The island where Daniel asked for divorce.<\/p>\n
The stairs where Ethan once sat crying because he dropped an ice cream cone.<\/p>\n
The living room where we assembled his first bicycle at midnight.<\/p>\n
Every room reduced to square footage and selling points.<\/p>\n
Chef\u2019s kitchen.<\/p>\n
Abundant natural light.<\/p>\n
Elegant family residence.<\/p>\n
No photograph showed debt.<\/p>\n
No photograph showed fear.<\/p>\n
Property listings were another form of selective truth.<\/p>\n
Ethan saw it accidentally when I left the page open.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s our house.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan anyone buy it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEven strangers?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked offended.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo they know my room is blue?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey can see it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre they allowed to paint it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He thought about that for a long time.<\/p>\n
Then shrugged.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like my gray room better.\u201d<\/p>\n
The townhouse walls were now dark gray.<\/p>\n
Negotiated.<\/p>\n
He had won.<\/p>\n
That evening Evelyn called Daniel.<\/p>\n
Then she called me.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe apologized.\u201d<\/p>\n
I waited.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t ask me to forgive him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s probably good.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe gave my lawyer permission to access everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso good.\u201d<\/p>\n
She was quiet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI still don\u2019t know if I can look at him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t have to decide now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s my son.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat used to answer every question.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Family words had lost their power as absolution.<\/p>\n
Mother.<\/p>\n
Sister.<\/p>\n
Wife.<\/p>\n
Father.<\/p>\n
Son.<\/p>\n
Those names described relationships.<\/p>\n
They did not erase choices.<\/p>\n
The next week, Adrian completed a preliminary total of Daniel\u2019s known obligations.<\/p>\n
We sat around Margaret\u2019s conference table.<\/p>\n
Investor principal.<\/p>\n
Family loans.<\/p>\n
Business liabilities.<\/p>\n
Secured debt.<\/p>\n
Margin losses.<\/p>\n
Legal obligations.<\/p>\n
The number was enormous.<\/p>\n
Not every dollar would necessarily remain personally collectible.<\/p>\n
Not every claim had equal legal status.<\/p>\n
But as a picture of damage, it was enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much can be recovered?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
Adrian gave a range.<\/p>\n
Far less than what was owed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens to people like Lily?\u201d<\/p>\n
Jonathan\u2019s daughter.<\/p>\n
Adrian looked at Margaret.<\/p>\n
\u201cDepends on legal priorities, recoveries, settlements, insurance, litigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
In other words, there was no clean ending.<\/p>\n
Some people would lose money.<\/p>\n
Possibly a lot.<\/p>\n
That was the part Daniel had refused to accept for years.<\/p>\n
Loss could not always be repaired.<\/p>\n
Sometimes the only moral choice left was to stop enlarging it.<\/p>\n
Rebecca apparently told him the same thing.<\/p>\n
Two days later, Daniel authorized liquidation of a personal retirement account to fund a supervised restitution pool to the extent legally permissible.<\/p>\n
He surrendered the luxury watches.<\/p>\n
Rachel\u2019s bracelet.<\/p>\n
The unused engagement ring.<\/p>\n
Several valuable pieces of art from the house.<\/p>\n
His remaining interest in one business asset.<\/p>\n
Not enough.<\/p>\n
But real.<\/p>\n
When I told Laura, she raised one eyebrow.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo now he\u2019s a hero?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s just finally stopping.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso good.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was the distinction.<\/p>\n
Repair did not erase damage.<\/p>\n
Stopping did not reverse what had already happened.<\/p>\n
But stopping mattered.<\/p>\n
Then came the call none of us expected.<\/p>\n
The district attorney\u2019s financial-crimes unit requested an interview with me.<\/p>\n
Not Daniel.<\/p>\n
Me.<\/p>\n
Margaret explained that it was voluntary at that stage.<\/p>\n
I could decline.<\/p>\n
I could participate with counsel.<\/p>\n
I looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you recommend?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat depends on what you want.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI want my name separated from what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen truthful cooperation may help.\u201d<\/p>\n
I agreed.<\/p>\n
The interview lasted two hours.<\/p>\n
They asked about the marriage.<\/p>\n
Finances.<\/p>\n
My knowledge.<\/p>\n
The fake email accounts.<\/p>\n
The copied signature.<\/p>\n
Investors.<\/p>\n
Ethan\u2019s account.<\/p>\n
I answered carefully.<\/p>\n
When I did not know, I said so.<\/p>\n
When I remembered something, I gave dates as accurately as possible.<\/p>\n
One investigator, a woman named Denise Alvarez, asked the question I had expected from the beginning.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you benefit financially from any of Daniel Mercer\u2019s undisclosed activity?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you know investor funds were being pooled?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you authorize Mr. Mercer to represent you as a participant?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you ever instruct Rachel Wynn to sign or submit documents for you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you know your mother-in-law was receiving communications from an email account in your name?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
She closed one folder.<\/p>\n
Then opened another.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Mr. Mercer ever tell you he was afraid of criminal consequences before the divorce?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
That answer stopped me.<\/p>\n
Not once.<\/p>\n
He had said creditors.<\/p>\n
Losses.<\/p>\n
Investors.<\/p>\n
The house.<\/p>\n
He had never said crime.<\/p>\n
Perhaps he had not allowed himself to think that word.<\/p>\n
Denise leaned back.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you believe he understood what he was doing was wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n
Margaret immediately said, \u201cEmma can describe facts, not speculate about his state of mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
Denise nodded.<\/p>\n
Fair.<\/p>\n
I almost smiled.<\/p>\n
Margaret had trained everyone around her.<\/p>\n
I described the facts.<\/p>\n
He hid documents.<\/p>\n
Created false accounts.<\/p>\n
Used signatures without permission.<\/p>\n
Asked people not to compare information.<\/p>\n
Moved money into Caroline\u2019s control.<\/p>\n
That was enough.<\/p>\n
At the end, Denise asked one final question.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did he tell you he wanted the divorce?\u201d<\/p>\n
The Tuesday evening returned.<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked what would happen to Ethan.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said I could keep him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Denise\u2019s expression changed.<\/p>\n
Not legally.<\/p>\n
Humanly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat exactly did he call him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe boy.\u201d<\/p>\n
She wrote it down.<\/p>\n
For months, I had hated that sentence because it felt like proof Daniel did not love Ethan.<\/p>\n
Now I understood it differently.<\/p>\n
Not better.<\/p>\n
Different.<\/p>\n
He had reduced his son to a category because that was how he survived panic.<\/p>\n
Assets.<\/p>\n
Liabilities.<\/p>\n
Custody.<\/p>\n
Deadlines.<\/p>\n
Problems.<\/p>\n
But reduction was still a choice.<\/p>\n
Love did not excuse it.<\/p>\n
Fear did not excuse it.<\/p>\n
And whatever happened next would not be decided by what Daniel meant to do.<\/p>\n
It would be decided by what he had actually done.<\/p>\n
Evelyn knew about Northstar. She admitted it immediately when Margaret called. Her silence afterward lasted so long that I thought the line had dropped. \u201cEvelyn?\u201d \u201cI\u2019m here.\u201d \u201cDid Robert reimburse … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17492,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17515","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\/17515","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=17515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17565,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17515\/revisions\/17565"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}