I waited until morning to call Carter.<\/p>\n
Not because I wanted to give him rest.<\/p>\n
Because Chloe woke at six.<\/p>\n
She stood in Rachel's kitchen wearing borrowed pajama pants and asked whether we had cereal.<\/p>\n
For twenty minutes, I was simply her mother.<\/p>\n
I poured milk.<\/p>\n
Cut a banana.<\/p>\n
Found a spoon.<\/p>\n
Emma appeared next, hair tangled around her face, carrying the stuffed rabbit by one ear.<\/p>\n
They argued about who got the blue bowl.<\/p>\n
I settled it by giving neither of them the blue bowl.<\/p>\n
Normal parenting.<\/p>\n
Ordinary frustration.<\/p>\n
Nothing involving embryos, trusts, genetic testing, or men who believed daughters were less useful than sons.<\/p>\n
Rachel watched me across the counter.<\/p>\n
She knew I needed those twenty minutes.<\/p>\n
At 6:43, Chloe asked, \u201cIs Dad coming to Seattle?\u201d<\/p>\n
I stopped washing a plate.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEver?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
She stared down at her cereal.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe called a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWas he calling for us?\u201d<\/p>\n
The question was small.<\/p>\n
The answer was not.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was calling because something important happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOh.\u201d<\/p>\n
She pushed a cereal square through the milk.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he ask about me?\u201d<\/p>\n
My throat tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe asked if you and Emma were with me.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was technically true.<\/p>\n
Chloe looked up.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat's not what I asked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eight years old.<\/p>\n
Too smart.<\/p>\n
Too practiced at measuring adults.<\/p>\n
I dried my hands and sat beside her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour dad is dealing with something complicated right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou always say complicated when grown-ups did something bad.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel looked away.<\/p>\n
I almost smiled despite myself.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou're not wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he do something bad?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She absorbed that.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of Jessica?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPartly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the baby?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPartly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her expression changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes Dad want the baby more than us?\u201d<\/p>\n
There it was.<\/p>\n
The question Carter had created in a courthouse hallway.<\/p>\n
I turned my chair toward her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour father's choices are about him. They are not a measurement of your value.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat's not an answer either.\u201d<\/p>\n
No.<\/p>\n
It wasn't.<\/p>\n
I hated that truth required hurting her.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has behaved as though having a son matters to him in a way that it should not.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chloe's eyes filled immediately, but she did not cry.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause we're girls.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emma looked between us.<\/p>\n
\u201cI'm a girl.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIs that bad?\u201d<\/p>\n
I reached for her.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Never.\u201d<\/p>\n
She climbed into my lap.<\/p>\n
Chloe stared at the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrandpa Richard says the family needs a boy.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt my body tense.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen did he say that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLots of times.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel froze.<\/p>\n
\u201cLots?\u201d<\/p>\n
Chloe nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt dinners.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought back over years of Sterling gatherings.<\/p>\n
Conversations held above children's heads.<\/p>\n
Jokes.<\/p>\n
Comments.<\/p>\n
Things adults assumed little ears would not absorb.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat else did Grandpa say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat Dad has to continue the family.\u201d<\/p>\n
My hands went cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou and Emma are family.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid anyone tell you you weren't?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
She hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrandpa said girls carry different names when they grow up.\u201d<\/p>\n
There it was.<\/p>\n
The philosophy underneath everything.<\/p>\n
Blood mattered only when carried through men.<\/p>\n
I hugged both girls.<\/p>\n
After breakfast, Rachel took them to walk her dog.<\/p>\n
I called Carter.<\/p>\n
He answered immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs Jessica okay?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is she?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI'm not telling you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI need to know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, you want to know.\u201d<\/p>\n
He exhaled.<\/p>\n
\u201cFine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have a question.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGo ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened after Emma was born?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Not confusion.<\/p>\n
Recognition.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat could mean anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means your father and genetic testing.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cCarter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wondered when you'd find that.\u201d<\/p>\n
The words hit hard.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Richard test?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know exactly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStop doing that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoing what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGiving me fragments and hoping I'll mistake them for truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
He sighed.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father became convinced Emma might not be mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
For several seconds, I forgot to breathe.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe thought the timing was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat timing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur marriage was bad that year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur marriage was exhausted that year. We had a toddler.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew we were fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew you stayed with Rachel for two weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cI stayed with my sister because your mother told me I was failing you by not getting pregnant again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Richard turned that into an affair?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn't.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you defend me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI told him he was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why were there tests?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn't know about them until later.\u201d<\/p>\n
I paced toward the window.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he test Emma?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou're sure?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as I know, no.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs far as you know isn't good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn't have access.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had access to our embryos.\u201d<\/p>\n
That silenced him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he test?\u201d I repeated.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe stored embryos.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would that prove anything about Emma?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wouldn't.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen explain.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter breathed slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted to verify that the embryos stored under our account were genetically mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe thought the clinic had mixed them up?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had some idea that if Emma wasn't mine, maybe there had been an embryo mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n
My head began to ache.<\/p>\n
\u201cEmma was conceived through IVF.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo he doubted the clinic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doubted everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter paused.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of my grandfather.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another Sterling man.<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy grandfather had a child outside his marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n
I waited.<\/p>\n
\u201cA son?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
That surprised me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA half brother my father didn't know existed until he was in his twenties.\u201d<\/p>\n
I sat slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a fight over the company.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of inheritance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Richard became obsessed with proving lineage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The family history finally began to explain his behavior.<\/p>\n
Not excuse it.<\/p>\n
Explain it.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter Emma was born, he demanded DNA testing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI refused.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou refused.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want credit?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe couldn't test Emma without us knowing. So he went after the embryos.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew the results?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat were they?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe embryos were genetically mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd mine?\u201d<\/p>\n
He hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cCarter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does yes mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were genetically ours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both of us.<\/p>\n
So Richard had proven what should never have needed proving.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why did the testing continue?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
My heart sped up.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt continued?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDana found multiple charges.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI only knew about one test.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did it show?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat the remaining embryos were ours.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMale and female?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why preserve only the male embryo?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe preserved both.\u201d<\/p>\n
I froze.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt least initially.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCarter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought you knew there were two stored.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew there had been two before you gave me the destruction letter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean after.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDad paid storage on both.\u201d<\/p>\n
I grabbed the nearest document.<\/p>\n
The records I had showed storage references.<\/p>\n
But I had assumed the coded payments all referred to the male embryo because that was the embryo later transferred.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened to the female embryo?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou keep saying that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I don't.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWas it destroyed?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI assumed so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou assumed?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYears later, Dad told me there was only one embryo left.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout two years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere did the other one go?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI never asked.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause it was female.\u201d<\/p>\n
The words came out before he could stop them.<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Absolute.<\/p>\n
Then Carter whispered, \u201cLauren.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause it was female,\u201d I repeated.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn't mean\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, you did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI meant my father didn't care about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd neither did you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat isn't what I'm saying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never asked what happened to an embryo we created because it couldn't become the son your family wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n
He had no answer.<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
Some betrayals were loud.<\/p>\n
Others were omissions.<\/p>\n
A missing question.<\/p>\n
A vanished embryo.<\/p>\n
Years of never asking.<\/p>\n
\u201cCarter, where is she?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe female embryo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFind out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't have access.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUse the same energy you used to steal the male one.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat isn't fair.\u201d<\/p>\n
I laughed, genuinely this time.<\/p>\n
The sound was ugly.<\/p>\n
\u201cStop saying that word.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was quiet.<\/p>\n
Then he said, \u201cThere's something else.\u201d<\/p>\n
My skin tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Dad did the testing, he didn't only compare the embryos to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
I gripped the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho else?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted lineage confirmation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted to establish they were part of the Sterling line.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTesting you already establishes that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why test Richard too?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was paranoid.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. There is something you're not telling me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter exhaled.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe results showed the expected relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMeaning?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe embryos were genetically my children and his grandchildren.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the lab flagged something else.\u201d<\/p>\n
My heartbeat slowed strangely.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn't understand it then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnderstand what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said there was a hereditary marker.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor disease?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat disease?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don't know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDad took over everything after that.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought of Dr. Leonard Vale.<\/p>\n
Hereditary disease and kinship analysis.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat marker?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI never saw the report.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Richard?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid it concern Emma or Chloe?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said no.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou believed him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to.\u201d<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
There it was again.<\/p>\n
Carter's great moral failure was not always active cruelty.<\/p>\n
Sometimes it was convenience.<\/p>\n
Believing whatever allowed his comfortable life to continue.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened to the female embryo after the testing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI told you, I don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Richard ever mention it again?\u201d<\/p>\n
A pause.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout three years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said one embryo had been \u2018removed from consideration.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The phrase made my stomach turn.<\/p>\n
\u201cRemoved how?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn't ask.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course you didn't.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLauren\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
I ended the call.<\/p>\n
Dana picked up ten minutes later.<\/p>\n
I told her everything.<\/p>\n
She remained silent until I finished.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe female embryo matters,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe'll request the complete disposition history.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the genetic report.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat hereditary marker?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe'll find out.\u201d<\/p>\n
I paced Rachel's living room.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if they destroyed the female embryo?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen there should be documentation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd if there isn't?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen we keep looking.\u201d<\/p>\n
At 9:17, Dana called again.<\/p>\n
That was too fast.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOakfield found the disposition entry.\u201d<\/p>\n
My heart pounded.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the female embryo?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDestroyed?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was transferred out of Oakfield.\u201d<\/p>\n
My mouth went dry.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo another clinic?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don't know yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThree years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Exactly when Richard had told Carter the embryo was \u201cremoved from consideration.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho authorized it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Dana paused.<\/p>\n
\u201cRichard Sterling.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at the wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had no legal authority.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRecipient?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cUnknown.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDestination?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRedacted in the archive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe're working on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
One embryo had been used to create Jessica's pregnancy.<\/p>\n
The other had disappeared three years earlier.<\/p>\n
And the man who had secretly controlled both transfers had spent years talking about heirs as if human beings were pieces on a board.<\/p>\n
\u201cDana.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFind the female embryo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked toward the window where Rachel and my daughters were coming up the sidewalk.<\/p>\n
Chloe held the dog's leash.<\/p>\n
Emma jumped over every crack in the pavement.<\/p>\n
Two living daughters.<\/p>\n
One unborn son.<\/p>\n
And somewhere in the past, possibly another child.<\/p>\n
I suddenly understood why Richard had panicked when Jessica mentioned the old records.<\/p>\n
The scandal might not have begun with her pregnancy.<\/p>\n
It might have begun years earlier.<\/p>\n
I waited until morning to call Carter. Not because I wanted to give him rest. Because Chloe woke at six. She stood in Rachel's kitchen wearing borrowed pajama pants and … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27718,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27725","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\/27725","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=27725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27760,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27725\/revisions\/27760"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}