Stephen Cross was transferred to a federal medical unit two days later.<\/p>\n
His cancer had spread to his liver and bones.<\/p>\n
Doctors estimated days.<\/p>\n
Maybe weeks.<\/p>\n
He asked for Eleanor.<\/p>\n
She refused.<\/p>\n
He asked for Thomas.<\/p>\n
Thomas refused.<\/p>\n
He asked for me.<\/p>\n
I nearly did too.<\/p>\n
Then Priya told me he claimed to have one final piece of information about my birth.<\/p>\n
I hated that those words still worked.<\/p>\n
There was always one more secret.<\/p>\n
One more envelope.<\/p>\n
One more person who believed information bought access.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens if I refuse?\u201d<\/p>\n
Priya shrugged.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe dies with it.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought about Arthur\u2019s recording.<\/p>\n
Records are not people.<\/p>\n
Truth did not automatically entitle Stephen to my presence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if I send questions?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can.\u201d<\/p>\n
So I did.<\/p>\n
Three.<\/p>\n
What information?<\/p>\n
Where is supporting evidence?<\/p>\n
Why was it withheld?<\/p>\n
Stephen replied in writing.<\/p>\n
Information: the identity of the police detective who originally tried to stop my transfer.<\/p>\n
Evidence: sealed locker at federal evidence annex.<\/p>\n
Reason withheld: leverage.<\/p>\n
At least honest.<\/p>\n
I did not visit him.<\/p>\n
Priya retrieved the evidence under warrant.<\/p>\n
The detective was Samuel Ortiz.<\/p>\n
Not someone connected by blood.<\/p>\n
A young police officer in 1987.<\/p>\n
Raymond had tried to report suspicious adoption activity to him.<\/p>\n
Ortiz believed him.<\/p>\n
He began investigating.<\/p>\n
The \u201cdetective\u201d Raymond remembered dying in a car accident.<\/p>\n
We had never named him.<\/p>\n
Now we could.<\/p>\n
Samuel Ortiz.<\/p>\n
Thirty-one years old.<\/p>\n
Married.<\/p>\n
One daughter.<\/p>\n
His car went off a bridge six weeks after my birth.<\/p>\n
Officially accident.<\/p>\n
Evidence in Stephen\u2019s locker included photographs showing Pierce\u2019s vehicle following Ortiz that night.<\/p>\n
Not proof of murder alone.<\/p>\n
Enough to reopen.<\/p>\n
Ortiz\u2019s daughter was contacted privately.<\/p>\n
She did not want media.<\/p>\n
She wanted records.<\/p>\n
They were given to her.<\/p>\n
Stephen asked again to see me.<\/p>\n
I declined again.<\/p>\n
He sent message:<\/p>\n
YOU WILL REGRET NOT HEARING IT FROM ME.<\/p>\n
I replied through Priya:<\/p>\n
THEN WRITE IT DOWN.<\/p>\n
He did.<\/p>\n
Twenty-seven pages.<\/p>\n
No dramatic bedside confession.<\/p>\n
No opportunity to manipulate my face.<\/p>\n
Just words that could be checked.<\/p>\n
Most were self-serving.<\/p>\n
Some useful.<\/p>\n
Stephen claimed he never intended to kill Eleanor after my birth.<\/p>\n
He intended to control her through me.<\/p>\n
Not better.<\/p>\n
He admitted paying Pierce.<\/p>\n
Admitted threatening Margaret.<\/p>\n
Admitted surveilling Raymond.<\/p>\n
Admitted manipulating Natalie.<\/p>\n
Admitted using Rebecca\u2019s anger.<\/p>\n
Admitted blackmailing Douglas.<\/p>\n
Admitted arranging attacks against Eleanor after she began investigating.<\/p>\n
He denied killing Arthur.<\/p>\n
Evidence supported that Arthur\u2019s death occurred by his own request with Margaret.<\/p>\n
Stephen denied killing Jonathan because Jonathan had already disappeared into Arthur\u2019s protection.<\/p>\n
He admitted ordering Samuel Ortiz \u201cstopped.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether he explicitly ordered murder remained contested.<\/p>\n
His wording was careful.<\/p>\n
He was still Stephen.<\/p>\n
Then came the part about me.<\/p>\n
Stephen had known before my birth that Raymond was probably my biological father.<\/p>\n
Pierce told him.<\/p>\n
Stephen claimed me anyway because Arthur believed I might be his grandchild and because legal paternity mattered less than leverage.<\/p>\n
He watched me grow because one day I might unlock the trust.<\/p>\n
Not because he loved me.<\/p>\n
Good.<\/p>\n
That was cleaner.<\/p>\n
No secret paternal affection.<\/p>\n
No final redemption.<\/p>\n
I appreciated that more than I expected.<\/p>\n
His last paragraph said:<\/p>\n
I made the mistake of thinking every person has a price. Your father Raymond was the first person who proved me wrong. I spent years trying to find his price and eventually realized his weakness was not money. It was you.<\/p>\n
I read it twice.<\/p>\n
Then stopped.<\/p>\n
Stephen still interpreted love as weakness.<\/p>\n
That was his prison long before federal custody.<\/p>\n
Thomas asked to read statement.<\/p>\n
I gave it to him.<\/p>\n
He returned it the next day.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you think?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe sounds smaller on paper.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought meeting him might give me something.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI did not meet him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou refused too?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas sat across from me.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is not my father.\u201d<\/p>\n
Biologically, Stephen was not.<\/p>\n
Emotionally, certainly not.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you want to call him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStephen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWorks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas had begun therapy with someone unconnected to Rebecca.<\/p>\n
That detail mattered.<\/p>\n
He joked that he now asked therapists whether they had ever kidnapped anyone before scheduling.<\/p>\n
Dark humor.<\/p>\n
Earned.<\/p>\n
Eleanor asked if refusing Stephen made her cowardly.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause seeing him would be for him, not you.\u201d<\/p>\n
She considered.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to tell him I survived.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knows.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted him to see me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is different.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you want that?\u201d<\/p>\n
She thought a long time.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then no.<\/p>\n
Stephen died four days later.<\/p>\n
Alone?<\/p>\n
No.<\/p>\n
A nurse was there.<\/p>\n
A federal guard.<\/p>\n
A chaplain he had requested.<\/p>\n
That was enough humanity.<\/p>\n
We did not turn his death into celebration.<\/p>\n
We did not pretend it erased danger.<\/p>\n
His testimony remained evidence.<\/p>\n
His crimes remained.<\/p>\n
His victims remained.<\/p>\n
His death simply ended his ability to choose anything else.<\/p>\n
Pierce heard and requested deal.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors declined his first offer.<\/p>\n
Grey began cooperating more fully.<\/p>\n
Harriet gave depositions over three days.<\/p>\n
Jonathan surrendered every remaining copy of medical ledger.<\/p>\n
Douglas disclosed hidden accounts.<\/p>\n
Linda provided real buyer communications.<\/p>\n
Rebecca turned over surveillance archives.<\/p>\n
The investigation expanded beyond our family.<\/p>\n
That was important.<\/p>\n
Most of the people affected did not share our names.<\/p>\n
Some never wanted to meet us.<\/p>\n
Some blamed Arthur.<\/p>\n
Some blamed Stephen.<\/p>\n
Some blamed receiving families.<\/p>\n
Some blamed hospitals.<\/p>\n
Some wanted compensation.<\/p>\n
Some wanted prosecutions.<\/p>\n
Some wanted corrected birth certificates.<\/p>\n
Some wanted original records sealed forever.<\/p>\n
The restitution board had to learn not to call one outcome healing.<\/p>\n
Rachel insisted on that language.<\/p>\n
She had agreed to serve only as temporary medical adviser, not family representative.<\/p>\n
Her first recommendation was simple:<\/p>\n
Stop calling people \u201crecovered children.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are adults,\u201d she said during the first meeting. \u201cSome are grandparents.\u201d<\/p>\n
The terminology changed.<\/p>\n
Survivors.<\/p>\n
Affected persons.<\/p>\n
Participants could choose their own language.<\/p>\n
Small thing.<\/p>\n
Not small.<\/p>\n
Raymond\u2019s public reputation slowly corrected after court authenticated his undercover status.<\/p>\n
A major newspaper published detailed investigation.<\/p>\n
They asked to interview him.<\/p>\n
He declined.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am tired.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fair.<\/p>\n
Jonathan agreed instead.<\/p>\n
He admitted his own crimes.<\/p>\n
No heroic framing.<\/p>\n
He described transporting children and records before becoming informant.<\/p>\n
His confession exposed another eleven intermediaries.<\/p>\n
Some dead.<\/p>\n
Some alive.<\/p>\n
One family sued him.<\/p>\n
He accepted that.<\/p>\n
Martin Reed formally recused from prosecution involving his father.<\/p>\n
He visited Raymond anyway.<\/p>\n
Family did not require legal assignment.<\/p>\n
Raymond and Jonathan began restoring an old motorcycle together in Dad\u2019s garage.<\/p>\n
Jonathan could barely bend without complaining.<\/p>\n
Dad complained about his complaining.<\/p>\n
I watched them once from doorway.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou going to stand there?\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cChecking whether either of you disappears.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jonathan winced.<\/p>\n
\u201cToo soon.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad said, \u201cNo, it is not.\u201d<\/p>\n
Progress.<\/p>\n
Margaret moved out of the secure residence and into a small apartment near Raymond.<\/p>\n
Not with him.<\/p>\n
Their relationship had changed too much for pretending.<\/p>\n
They loved each other.<\/p>\n
That did not mean they could resume twenty-two years as if absence had been vacation.<\/p>\n
They ate dinner together.<\/p>\n
Sometimes.<\/p>\n
Argued.<\/p>\n
Often.<\/p>\n
She apologized without demanding restoration.<\/p>\n
Dad listened without promising it.<\/p>\n
One evening she asked me:<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you still think of me as your mother?\u201d<\/p>\n
I hated the question.<\/p>\n
Because there was no clean answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou raised me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou loved me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou lied to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are my mother.\u201d<\/p>\n
She cried.<\/p>\n
I added:<\/p>\n
\u201cThat does not make everything okay.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Eleanor is my mother too.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd neither of you gets to compete.\u201d<\/p>\n
Margaret nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgreed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eleanor, meanwhile, returned to Claire Dawson\u2019s house for the first time after the break-in.<\/p>\n
Michael repaired the door.<\/p>\n
Thomas replaced the broken lamp.<\/p>\n
I replaced the wedding photograph someone had cut my face from.<\/p>\n
Not because the picture mattered.<\/p>\n
Because the empty frame bothered me.<\/p>\n
Eleanor watched.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou do not have to fix everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am fixing glass.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is how it starts.\u201d<\/p>\n
I laughed.<\/p>\n
She had learned me quickly.<\/p>\n
We did not force mother-son intimacy.<\/p>\n
Sometimes we talked.<\/p>\n
Sometimes not.<\/p>\n
She told me about being young.<\/p>\n
Not only St. Agnes.<\/p>\n
Music she liked.<\/p>\n
Bad jobs.<\/p>\n
Arthur\u2019s terrible driving.<\/p>\n
The first apartment she rented.<\/p>\n
Ordinary details.<\/p>\n
Those gave me more than another ledger.<\/p>\n
Then Rachel called.<\/p>\n
The Oregon parents had been informed that their daughter had been conceived using an egg transferred without Rachel\u2019s authorization.<\/p>\n
They were devastated.<\/p>\n
They had believed embryo donation legitimate.<\/p>\n
They had records proving they paid a licensed clinic.<\/p>\n
They were victims too.<\/p>\n
Rachel asked for no contact.<\/p>\n
Not yet.<\/p>\n
She provided medical history through attorneys.<\/p>\n
The parents thanked her.<\/p>\n
No one called the girl anything except their daughter.<\/p>\n
Good.<\/p>\n
Claire Porter was charged federally and by state authorities.<\/p>\n
Elaine testified before grand jury.<\/p>\n
Mother and daughter had not spoken.<\/p>\n
Claire requested visit.<\/p>\n
Elaine was unsure.<\/p>\n
I told her nothing.<\/p>\n
Not my decision.<\/p>\n
She laughed sadly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou really learned that phrase.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then came the first restitution hearing.<\/p>\n
A woman named Denise Walker testified.<\/p>\n
Child 12.<\/p>\n
She was sixty-three.<\/p>\n
Retired school librarian.<\/p>\n
She had known since age nineteen that she was adopted.<\/p>\n
She had never known her biological mother was told she died.<\/p>\n
Her mother had died before the truth surfaced.<\/p>\n
Denise did not want money.<\/p>\n
She wanted her original birth certificate corrected.<\/p>\n
Another survivor wanted money for decades of therapy.<\/p>\n
Another wanted nothing.<\/p>\n
Another wanted medical records.<\/p>\n
Another wanted the receiving parents\u2019 names sealed because they had loved him and believed the adoption legal.<\/p>\n
The board listened.<\/p>\n
No single remedy.<\/p>\n
That was justice becoming less cinematic and more useful.<\/p>\n
Afterward, Priya found me outside.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have not filed Natalie\u2019s divorce papers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot my business.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why mention?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause she asked me whether the trust would treat her differently if you divorce.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe did not ask whether you were filing.\u201d<\/p>\n
That mattered.<\/p>\n
She had stopped trying to manage my choice.<\/p>\n
Natalie and I met once a week.<\/p>\n
Not dates.<\/p>\n
Conversations.<\/p>\n
She had started individual counseling.<\/p>\n
She sold jewelry purchased with money tied to Douglas\u2019s estate and placed proceeds into restitution fund.<\/p>\n
I told her that did not purchase forgiveness.<\/p>\n
She said:<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Better.<\/p>\n
One night she asked:<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you still love me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She cried.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo why does that feel worse?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause love is not the only question.\u201d<\/p>\n
She nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you trust me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
There.<\/p>\n
She absorbed it.<\/p>\n
No argument.<\/p>\n
\u201cCould you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI do not know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat would make you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTime.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI do not know.\u201d<\/p>\n
She nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can live with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Could she?<\/p>\n
We would see.<\/p>\n
Then my phone rang.<\/p>\n
Raymond.<\/p>\n
\u201cGarage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCome to garage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cJust come.\u201d<\/p>\n
I arrived twenty minutes later.<\/p>\n
Dad stood beside old workbench.<\/p>\n
Jonathan nearby.<\/p>\n
On bench sat a small metal cash box.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is that?\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad opened it.<\/p>\n
Inside were bills.<\/p>\n
Ten hundreds.<\/p>\n
One thousand dollars.<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are ridiculous.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI told you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou already tried to repay me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was Jonathan\u2019s money.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jonathan raised hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cStill angry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad pushed box toward me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere did you get cash?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBank.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou went to bank?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am allowed outside.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou had heart surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not a houseplant.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jonathan laughed.<\/p>\n
Dad glared.<\/p>\n
I picked up money.<\/p>\n
The same amount that started everything.<\/p>\n
Not same bills.<\/p>\n
Did not matter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you want me to do with it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever you want.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo condition?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot survivor fund?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you want.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot lawyer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot records?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I borrowed money from my son.\u201d<\/p>\n
Simple.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I am paying him back.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at him.<\/p>\n
Not Arthur.<\/p>\n
Not Stephen.<\/p>\n
Not trust.<\/p>\n
Not bloodline.<\/p>\n
Dad.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know I would have given it to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou did not need to beg.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did you sound so ashamed that day?\u201d<\/p>\n
He smiled faintly.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I knew asking would start questions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could have told me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI should have.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat would you have said?\u201d<\/p>\n
He thought.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat I needed money to prove whether you were stolen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat would have been memorable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Natalie?\u201d<\/p>\n
His face hardened, then softened.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was afraid.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe humiliated you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you forgive her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is my business.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fair.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you?\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome days.\u201d<\/p>\n
Also fair.<\/p>\n
I took the money.<\/p>\n
Then handed him one hundred.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDinner.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou, me, Jonathan, Margaret, Eleanor, Michael, Thomas, Rachel if she wants, Natalie if everyone agrees.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is too many people.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone will fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDefinitely.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jonathan said, \u201cI am in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad sighed.<\/p>\n
\u201cFine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then he looked at remaining nine hundred.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you doing with that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cKeeping it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
It surprised him.<\/p>\n
Maybe me too.<\/p>\n
I did not need to turn every dollar into symbolism.<\/p>\n
Some money could simply be mine.<\/p>\n
Stephen Cross was transferred to a federal medical unit two days later. His cancer had spread to his liver and bones. Doctors estimated days. Maybe weeks. He asked for Eleanor. … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18905","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\/18905","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=18905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18945,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905\/revisions\/18945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}