Ortiz did not touch the red folder.<\/p>\n
Not immediately.<\/p>\n
He stepped out of the vault and called his supervisor from another phone.<\/p>\n
Then he asked the bank to restrict access to the area.<\/p>\n
No local patrol officers entered.<\/p>\n
Only Ortiz, Margaret, Harold, Sophie, Evan, the bank manager, and me remained.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s happening?\u201d Sophie whispered.<\/p>\n
I looked at Ortiz.<\/p>\n
He lowered his voice.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Thomas believed law enforcement was compromised, we preserve chain of custody differently.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you believe him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe we need to find out before assuming anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s caution again.<\/p>\n
Not paranoia.<\/p>\n
Procedure.<\/p>\n
Ortiz called a federal contact.<\/p>\n
Because the red folder also involved interstate financial fraud and possible bank crimes, federal agencies already had jurisdictional interest.<\/p>\n
Within an hour, two federal investigators arrived.<\/p>\n
Special Agent Naomi Brooks.<\/p>\n
Special Agent Daniel Kramer.<\/p>\n
No relation to our accountant.<\/p>\n
They documented the vault, the box, both keys, and every person present.<\/p>\n
Only then did we open the folder.<\/p>\n
First page:<\/p>\n
Name: Detective Carl Mercer.<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer?\u201d<\/p>\n
No relation to Denise, as far as anyone knew.<\/p>\n
Ortiz recognized him.<\/p>\n
\u201cRetired.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho was he?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFinancial crimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n
Dad had apparently contacted Carl Mercer three years earlier about Northstar.<\/p>\n
There were emails.<\/p>\n
Thomas Bennett to Carl Mercer.<\/p>\n
Requests for confidential meeting.<\/p>\n
Summaries of suspicious transactions.<\/p>\n
Questions about whether Richard Vale\u2019s lending structure warranted investigation.<\/p>\n
Mercer responded warmly.<\/p>\n
Promised discretion.<\/p>\n
Asked for documents.<\/p>\n
Dad gave him some.<\/p>\n
Then something happened.<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s handwritten note:<\/p>\n
Mercer repeating questions only Vale should know.<\/p>\n
My skin prickled.<\/p>\n
Another note:<\/p>\n
Do not send further evidence.<\/p>\n
Dad suspected Mercer was leaking information to Richard.<\/p>\n
Agent Brooks asked Ortiz, \u201cDid you ever work with him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBriefly. Early career.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRelationship?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProfessional.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAny current contact?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz looked angry now.<\/p>\n
Not defensive.<\/p>\n
Angry.<\/p>\n
Dad had approached police.<\/p>\n
And perhaps police had betrayed him.<\/p>\n
The folder contained bank transfers.<\/p>\n
Cedar Lane Advisory to a consulting company owned by Carl Mercer\u2019s brother.<\/p>\n
Seventy-five thousand dollars over two years.<\/p>\n
Purpose:<\/p>\n
Security consulting.<\/p>\n
Daniel joined by secure call.<\/p>\n
He traced the company quickly.<\/p>\n
No employees.<\/p>\n
No meaningful business activity.<\/p>\n
A shell.<\/p>\n
Richard had potentially paid a detective through a relative.<\/p>\n
\u201cWas Mercer assigned to anything involving Vale?\u201d Brooks asked.<\/p>\n
Ortiz searched internal archives through secure channels.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
A fraud complaint seven years ago.<\/p>\n
Closed for insufficient evidence.<\/p>\n
Another investor complaint five years ago.<\/p>\n
Closed.<\/p>\n
And a preliminary inquiry into Northstar three years ago.<\/p>\n
Closed two weeks after Dad died.<\/p>\n
My chest tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho closed it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz stared at the screen.<\/p>\n
\u201cCarl Mercer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad died Saturday.<\/p>\n
Within two weeks, the inquiry vanished.<\/p>\n
\u201cReason?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cComplainant unavailable. Insufficient corroboration.\u201d<\/p>\n
Complainant.<\/p>\n
My father.<\/p>\n
Dead.<\/p>\n
The room became very quiet.<\/p>\n
Dad had tried to use the system.<\/p>\n
Richard had apparently compromised the system too.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is Mercer now?\u201d Agent Brooks asked.<\/p>\n
Florida.<\/p>\n
Retired.<\/p>\n
But recent travel records would matter.<\/p>\n
Then Dad\u2019s folder revealed something worse.<\/p>\n
A printed email from Mercer to Richard.<\/p>\n
No sender name visible.<\/p>\n
But Dad had annotated the header path.<\/p>\n
The message read:<\/p>\n
T.B. has more than letters. Looking for original transaction ledger. He may have outside counsel copy.<\/p>\n
Richard had learned exactly what Dad possessed through a detective.<\/p>\n
Another:<\/p>\n
He\u2019s preparing something for Monday. Suggest you resolve before then.<\/p>\n
My hands went numb.<\/p>\n
Resolve before then.<\/p>\n
Same deadline.<\/p>\n
Monday.<\/p>\n
Agent Brooks read the email twice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is significant.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does resolve mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Again.<\/p>\n
Ambiguity.<\/p>\n
But Richard had acted Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dad died before Monday.<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s final recording warned against coincidence.<\/p>\n
The folder also contained surveillance photographs.<\/p>\n
Not Arthur\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Different angles.<\/p>\n
Dad entering Harold\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Dad meeting Evelyn Cho.<\/p>\n
Dad at a pharmacy.<\/p>\n
Dad outside his cardiologist\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
Someone had been watching him.<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer?\u201d<\/p>\n
Maybe.<\/p>\n
Or someone Mercer hired.<\/p>\n
One photograph included a reflection.<\/p>\n
A man in a shop window holding a camera.<\/p>\n
Ortiz enlarged it.<\/p>\n
\u201cCould be private security.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel searched Richard\u2019s known contractors.<\/p>\n
One name emerged.<\/p>\n
Falcon Risk Services.<\/p>\n
Company dissolved two years ago.<\/p>\n
Owner:<\/p>\n
Carl Mercer\u2019s nephew.<\/p>\n
The connections tightened.<\/p>\n
Richard had not just corrupted individuals.<\/p>\n
He built a network.<\/p>\n
Lawyer.<\/p>\n
Doctor.<\/p>\n
Investigator.<\/p>\n
Police contact.<\/p>\n
Assistant.<\/p>\n
Business nominee.<\/p>\n
Everyone separated enough that no single person saw the whole.<\/p>\n
Dad had been assembling it.<\/p>\n
So were we.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t he give this to Evelyn?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
Harold answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe because law enforcement compromise made him cautious.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe trusted Evelyn.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut if Mercer knew about her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen Thomas may have separated evidence deliberately.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
Compartmentalization.<\/p>\n
Different backups held different pieces.<\/p>\n
No one person could betray everything.<\/p>\n
Not even me.<\/p>\n
Dad understood Richard\u2019s method because he used the opposite one.<\/p>\n
Richard centralized control.<\/p>\n
Dad distributed truth.<\/p>\n
Then Agent Kramer found a note beneath the email copies.<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s handwriting:<\/p>\n
If Mercer leaks Monday meeting, I will know within 24 hours.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat meeting?\u201d<\/p>\n
Harold looked at the date.<\/p>\n
The meeting Dad never attended.<\/p>\n
Maybe Dad was testing Mercer.<\/p>\n
He told him Monday.<\/p>\n
Then waited to see whether Richard reacted.<\/p>\n
Richard did.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad used himself as bait.\u201d<\/p>\n
My voice shook.<\/p>\n
Margaret looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told Mercer about Monday because he expected the information to leak.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
My anger turned toward Dad for the first time.<\/p>\n
Not fair.<\/p>\n
Not rational.<\/p>\n
Still real.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou should have told me.\u201d<\/p>\n
I said it to the folder.<\/p>\n
To Dad.<\/p>\n
To the dead.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou should have just told me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sophie took my hand.<\/p>\n
I did not pull away.<\/p>\n
Ortiz\u2019s secure phone rang.<\/p>\n
He answered.<\/p>\n
His face changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Agent Brooks watched.<\/p>\n
He turned the screen toward her.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone accessed the case database.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTwenty minutes ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCredentials belong to Lieutenant Steven Hale.\u201d<\/p>\n
Margaret looked up sharply.<\/p>\n
\u201cHale?\u201d<\/p>\n
No relation.<\/p>\n
Common surname.<\/p>\n
Still unsettling.<\/p>\n
Ortiz continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cLieutenant Hale is off duty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLocation?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHome, supposedly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brooks asked, \u201cCould credentials be compromised?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was accessed?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz read.<\/p>\n
My case.<\/p>\n
Richard Vale.<\/p>\n
Thomas Bennett.<\/p>\n
Linda Carver.<\/p>\n
Every new entry since Christmas morning.<\/p>\n
Someone had been monitoring the investigation internally.<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s red folder was not only historical.<\/p>\n
The problem still existed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho knew about the cuff link?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz searched access logs.<\/p>\n
The unauthorized session opened that file too.<\/p>\n
My skin crawled.<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard knows what we know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Agent Brooks corrected.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone accessing police systems knows.\u201d<\/p>\n
Important distinction.<\/p>\n
But Richard had texted me right after major discoveries repeatedly.<\/p>\n
Maybe his knowledge came from inside.<\/p>\n
Ortiz\u2019s expression hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe move this federal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Agent Brooks nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cImmediately.\u201d<\/p>\n
My phone was placed in a signal-isolation pouch.<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s too.<\/p>\n
Sophie\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Everyone.<\/p>\n
No electronic communications except controlled devices.<\/p>\n
For the first time, Richard could not reach me instantly.<\/p>\n
The silence felt strange.<\/p>\n
Relieving.<\/p>\n
Terrifying.<\/p>\n
Then one federal technician noticed something on my phone before bagging it.<\/p>\n
An installed configuration profile.<\/p>\n
I did not know what that meant.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt can redirect certain traffic,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n
\u201cSpyware?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot necessarily.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCould someone see messages?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPotentially some metadata depending on setup.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did it get there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUsually user approval required.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never approved anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCould have been disguised as corporate email setup, VPN, security certificate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Work.<\/p>\n
A year earlier, Mark had helped me fix a mail-sync problem.<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen was the profile installed?\u201d<\/p>\n
Timestamp.<\/p>\n
Eight months earlier.<\/p>\n
Same period financial transfers began.<\/p>\n
I looked at Mark.<\/p>\n
He went white.<\/p>\n
\u201cI installed a certificate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou asked me to fix your email.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked you to reconnect Outlook.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard sent me a profile.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room went silent.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would Richard have a profile for my phone?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said his IT guy had a general fix.\u201d<\/p>\n
I almost laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou installed software from Richard on my phone?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Again.<\/p>\n
Always.<\/p>\n
Didn\u2019t know.<\/p>\n
Didn\u2019t ask.<\/p>\n
Didn\u2019t want to know.<\/p>\n
The technician examined it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis profile routes some network requests through a private server.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOwned by?\u201d<\/p>\n
They traced the domain.<\/p>\n
A technology vendor.<\/p>\n
Client records linked billing to Vale Strategic Partners.<\/p>\n
My phone had been partially monitored for eight months.<\/p>\n
Maybe location.<\/p>\n
Maybe metadata.<\/p>\n
Possibly more.<\/p>\n
That explained how Richard knew where I was.<\/p>\n
How quickly he reacted to messages.<\/p>\n
Why he seemed always one step nearby.<\/p>\n
My skin crawled.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you remove it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter imaging.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark looked devastated.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
I did not answer.<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s sentence returned.<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s danger was surrender.<\/p>\n
He surrendered judgment every time Richard offered convenience.<\/p>\n
Now one \u201cIT fix\u201d had opened my phone.<\/p>\n
Agent Brooks asked, \u201cDid Richard ever send you software directly?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMark?\u201d<\/p>\n
He admitted using similar profiles on Northstar devices.<\/p>\n
Possible widespread surveillance.<\/p>\n
Richard monitored his own people.<\/p>\n
Control again.<\/p>\n
Then federal investigators received location data on Carl Mercer.<\/p>\n
He was not in Florida.<\/p>\n
He had flown to Chicago December 23.<\/p>\n
The day before Mark sent me away.<\/p>\n
My heart accelerated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is he now?\u201d<\/p>\n
Hotel checkout Christmas morning.<\/p>\n
Vehicle rental still active.<\/p>\n
No return flight.<\/p>\n
Retired detective.<\/p>\n
Back in Chicago exactly when Richard\u2019s plan entered its final stage.<\/p>\n
Agent Brooks requested immediate location efforts.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if he\u2019s helping Richard?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo assumptions.\u201d<\/p>\n
But we all thought it.<\/p>\n
Then another discovery.<\/p>\n
The unauthorized police database login from Lieutenant Hale\u2019s credentials originated from a city network terminal.<\/p>\n
Location:<\/p>\n
Central evidence facility.<\/p>\n
Someone physically inside police infrastructure had accessed our case.<\/p>\n
Ortiz stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know who works there.\u201d<\/p>\n
Brooks stopped him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou do nothing personally.\u201d<\/p>\n
His jaw tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Thomas\u2019s folder named one compromised detective. We do not know how many.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sentence landed.<\/p>\n
Trust narrowed again.<\/p>\n
Ortiz looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat you have to wonder whether the people protecting you are part of the threat.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought of Dad.<\/p>\n
He had lived with that exact uncertainty.<\/p>\n
Now I understood why he built layers.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo your job carefully.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz nodded.<\/p>\n
Federal agents arranged secure lodging for me, Sophie, and Evan.<\/p>\n
Denise separately.<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s status was different because of his cooperation and exposure.<\/p>\n
He would remain with counsel and investigators.<\/p>\n
Before we left the bank, Harold handed the red folder to Agent Brooks under receipt.<\/p>\n
Then he looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas once told me something.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said Richard\u2019s greatest strength was making people think they needed him.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Mark.<\/p>\n
He heard.<\/p>\n
Harold continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd his greatest weakness was believing that dependence was the same as loyalty.\u201d<\/p>\n
That mattered.<\/p>\n
Because everyone Richard depended on was beginning to talk.<\/p>\n
Linda.<\/p>\n
Pierce.<\/p>\n
Arthur partly.<\/p>\n
Mark.<\/p>\n
Denise.<\/p>\n
Maybe Mercer next.<\/p>\n
Richard built a network from compromised people.<\/p>\n
Dad believed compromised people eventually broke.<\/p>\n
The federal technician handed me a replacement phone.<\/p>\n
Temporary.<\/p>\n
Clean.<\/p>\n
New number known only to a small group.<\/p>\n
Within seven minutes, it received a text.<\/p>\n
Everyone froze.<\/p>\n
Impossible.<\/p>\n
The technician took it.<\/p>\n
No configuration.<\/p>\n
No shared accounts.<\/p>\n
No obvious breach.<\/p>\n
Message:<\/p>\n
THOMAS DIDN\u2019T DISTRUST THE POLICE.<\/p>\n
HE DISTRUSTED ORTIZ.<\/p>\n
Detective Ortiz stared at the screen.<\/p>\n
Then another message arrived.<\/p>\n
ASK HIM WHAT HE DID WITH THE MISSING TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS IN THE RAINER CASE.<\/p>\n
No one moved.<\/p>\n
Ortiz\u2019s face changed.<\/p>\n
Agent Brooks turned toward him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is the Rainer case?\u201d<\/p>\n
He took a slow breath.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy first financial investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFourteen years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWas money missing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened to it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never told anyone this outside internal affairs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Agent Brooks said, \u201cTell us now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz\u2019s jaw tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found the money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Carl Mercer\u2019s desk.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room went silent.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me it was evidence held off-book.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a violation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you do?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz closed his eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believed him.\u201d<\/p>\n
My chest tightened.<\/p>\n
The pattern again.<\/p>\n
Another person trusting the wrong man.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened later?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTwenty thousand disappeared from the case permanently.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Mercer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou reported it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz\u2019s silence answered.<\/p>\n
Agent Brooks\u2019s voice became cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you report it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room changed.<\/p>\n
Not because Ortiz had stolen.<\/p>\n
Because he had hidden something.<\/p>\n
Richard knew.<\/p>\n
Somehow.<\/p>\n
And now he was using that secret to make us doubt the detective who had been helping us.<\/p>\n
Ortiz looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was twenty-six.\u201d<\/p>\n
I said nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought reporting Mercer would destroy my career.\u201d<\/p>\n
Still nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI made the wrong choice.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sentence I understood too well.<\/p>\n
Mark said it.<\/p>\n
Denise.<\/p>\n
Arthur.<\/p>\n
Pierce.<\/p>\n
Now Ortiz.<\/p>\n
Richard collected old compromises because compromised people were easier to bend.<\/p>\n
Agent Brooks took Ortiz\u2019s credentials.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re off this investigation pending review.\u201d<\/p>\n
His face tightened.<\/p>\n
But he surrendered them.<\/p>\n
No protest.<\/p>\n
No argument.<\/p>\n
That difference mattered.<\/p>\n
He looked at me once before leaving.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not trust the message just because part of it is true.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then he walked away.<\/p>\n
I watched him go.<\/p>\n
Richard had succeeded in one thing.<\/p>\n
He had removed the investigator who knew the case best.<\/p>\n
Whether Ortiz deserved removal or not, Richard benefited.<\/p>\n
Agent Brooks turned to us.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom this point, no assumptions about communications, personnel, or location security.\u201d<\/p>\n
My temporary phone remained on the table.<\/p>\n
Another message appeared.<\/p>\n
This one contained only a photograph.<\/p>\n
Detective Ortiz walking out of the bank.<\/p>\n
Taken seconds earlier.<\/p>\n
Richard\u2014or someone working for him\u2014was outside.<\/p>\n
Watching us.<\/p>\n
Ortiz did not touch the red folder. Not immediately. He stepped out of the vault and called his supervisor from another phone. Then he asked the bank to restrict access … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25208,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25227","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\/25227","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=25227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25262,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25227\/revisions\/25262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}