Six months passed exactly.<\/p>\n
I knew because Mark did not mention the deadline once.<\/p>\n
Neither did I.<\/p>\n
We had agreed that after six months of separation, therapy, independent finances, and deliberate distance, we would decide what to do with our marriage.<\/p>\n
The date arrived on a Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, so did Richard Vale\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n
Life had developed a taste for bad timing.<\/p>\n
By then, the criminal cases had separated into different tracks. Some defendants pleaded. Some fought. Some charges changed as prosecutors discovered which old conduct could still be proved and which belonged only in the history of the conspiracy.<\/p>\n
Vale\u2019s cooperation became public.<\/p>\n
So did the fact that he had not received immunity.<\/p>\n
He had helped investigators understand the network because the network had become more dangerous to him than the government.<\/p>\n
That distinction mattered to me.<\/p>\n
People kept calling him a whistleblower.<\/p>\n
He was not.<\/p>\n
Marianne had risked herself to expose information.<\/p>\n
Judith had protected records for years.<\/p>\n
My grandfather had eventually documented a structure he once participated in.<\/p>\n
Vale cooperated after losing control.<\/p>\n
Useful was not the same as noble.<\/p>\n
The hearing concerned Nathan Crowe and the death of Mark and Emma\u2019s father.<\/p>\n
For months, investigators reconstructed the final day from phone records, toll cameras, the recovered server, Judith\u2019s recordings, Crowe\u2019s statements, and the boating records David had falsified.<\/p>\n
What emerged was less cinematic than murder and more terrible because of it.<\/p>\n
Crowe had been ordered by Vale to intercept Mark\u2019s father before he met an investigator.<\/p>\n
The purpose was intimidation.<\/p>\n
Take his documents.<\/p>\n
Find out what he had copied.<\/p>\n
Convince him that exposing Argent Meridian would destroy his wife, children, company, and employees.<\/p>\n
Crowe followed him to the marina.<\/p>\n
David went too.<\/p>\n
David\u2019s presence had never been planned.<\/p>\n
He came because Vale wanted someone Mark\u2019s father knew.<\/p>\n
Someone who could make the threat sound like family advice rather than criminal coercion.<\/p>\n
Mark sat beside Emma in the courtroom.<\/p>\n
I sat one row behind them.<\/p>\n
We were still separated.<\/p>\n
We had begun seeing each other twice a week outside therapy.<\/p>\n
Coffee.<\/p>\n
Dinner.<\/p>\n
Walks.<\/p>\n
Once, a terrible movie we both hated so much that we whispered complaints until the couple in front of us moved.<\/p>\n
Ordinary things.<\/p>\n
I had forgotten how valuable ordinary could be.<\/p>\n
Crowe took the stand as part of his plea agreement.<\/p>\n
He did not look toward Mark.<\/p>\n
He described the marina.<\/p>\n
The wind.<\/p>\n
The argument.<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s father refused to hand over his briefcase.<\/p>\n
Crowe grabbed it.<\/p>\n
They struggled.<\/p>\n
David tried to separate them.<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s father stepped backward onto the boat.<\/p>\n
Crowe followed.<\/p>\n
The boat moved away from the dock before anyone intended it to.<\/p>\n
That detail had always bothered investigators.<\/p>\n
Why leave shore?<\/p>\n
Crowe finally explained.<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s father started the engine.<\/p>\n
He believed he could take the boat across the marina and reach the harbor office.<\/p>\n
Crowe tried to stop him.<\/p>\n
David panicked.<\/p>\n
The three men fought near the controls.<\/p>\n
The boat struck a marker.<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s father fell.<\/p>\n
Not overboard.<\/p>\n
Against the deck.<\/p>\n
He hit his head.<\/p>\n
Emma lowered her face.<\/p>\n
Mark did not move.<\/p>\n
Crowe said Mark\u2019s father was conscious afterward.<\/p>\n
Bleeding.<\/p>\n
Confused.<\/p>\n
Alive.<\/p>\n
That was the point where accident became crime.<\/p>\n
David wanted to call emergency services.<\/p>\n
Crowe refused.<\/p>\n
Vale had told him there could be no police contact.<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s father had documents in the boat.<\/p>\n
Crowe spent minutes searching for them.<\/p>\n
Minutes.<\/p>\n
While an injured man deteriorated.<\/p>\n
David finally reached for his phone.<\/p>\n
Crowe knocked it away.<\/p>\n
Then Mark\u2019s father tried to stand.<\/p>\n
He collapsed.<\/p>\n
By the time Crowe agreed they needed help, he had stopped responding.<\/p>\n
They brought the boat back through a less visible dock.<\/p>\n
Vale arrived.<\/p>\n
Not immediately.<\/p>\n
Soon enough.<\/p>\n
He instructed them to make the outing appear solitary.<\/p>\n
David altered marina records later.<\/p>\n
Crowe removed documents.<\/p>\n
Vale contacted people who shaped the early investigation.<\/p>\n
And Thomas Reed made calls that discouraged deeper scrutiny into the financial background.<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s father had not been deliberately killed.<\/p>\n
He had been deliberately denied help.<\/p>\n
The difference mattered legally.<\/p>\n
It did not make listening easier.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor asked Crowe why he obeyed Vale.<\/p>\n
\u201cMoney.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nothing more.<\/p>\n
No childhood tragedy.<\/p>\n
No complicated family loyalty.<\/p>\n
Money.<\/p>\n
Crowe had been paid to frighten people for years.<\/p>\n
He knew Vale protected him.<\/p>\n
He assumed the system would keep protecting him.<\/p>\n
That was all.<\/p>\n
When he finished, Emma stood and walked out.<\/p>\n
I followed.<\/p>\n
Mark remained inside.<\/p>\n
Emma reached the courthouse restroom and braced both hands against the sink.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe could have lived.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey had time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked at herself in the mirror.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll these years I thought the accident killed him.\u201d<\/p>\n
I waited.<\/p>\n
She shook her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe accident hurt him. They killed the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
I had no better sentence.<\/p>\n
So I said nothing.<\/p>\n
Emma cried.<\/p>\n
Then washed her face.<\/p>\n
When we returned, Diane had arrived.<\/p>\n
She was in custody pending sentencing.<\/p>\n
Her attorney had arranged attendance.<\/p>\n
She looked smaller than the woman who had taken a microphone at my wedding.<\/p>\n
That image remained strange to remember.<\/p>\n
Diane in silk and diamonds, announcing my condo to a ballroom as though she were unveiling a centerpiece.<\/p>\n
Now she wore plain clothes permitted for court.<\/p>\n
No jewelry.<\/p>\n
No performance.<\/p>\n
Emma saw her.<\/p>\n
Diane saw Emma.<\/p>\n
Neither approached.<\/p>\n
After Crowe\u2019s testimony, prosecutors played part of Mark\u2019s father\u2019s final recording.<\/p>\n
The courtroom heard his instruction to Diane:<\/p>\n
Let the company go.<\/p>\n
Diane closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
Emma\u2019s trust is hers.<\/p>\n
Her shoulders shook.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
Mark does not have to save everyone.<\/p>\n
Mark looked down.<\/p>\n
Finally:<\/p>\n
If our children ever meet, tell them this was ours. Not theirs.<\/p>\n
I felt Mark\u2019s hand touch the bench beside him.<\/p>\n
Not reaching for me.<\/p>\n
Just needing somewhere to place it.<\/p>\n
The judge recessed.<\/p>\n
Diane\u2019s attorney came toward us.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe wants five minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emma asked, \u201cWith whom?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll three of you.\u201d<\/p>\n
She meant Mark, Emma, and me.<\/p>\n
I nearly said no.<\/p>\n
Then Emma said yes.<\/p>\n
So we went.<\/p>\n
The consultation room was small.<\/p>\n
An officer remained outside.<\/p>\n
Diane sat across from us.<\/p>\n
She looked first at Mark.<\/p>\n
Then Emma.<\/p>\n
Then me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m changing my plea agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy attorney negotiated for a sentencing recommendation based partly on cooperation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s normal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you changing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m withdrawing one requested condition.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emma asked, \u201cWhich?\u201d<\/p>\n
Diane looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cRestitution priority.\u201d<\/p>\n
The government had frozen several Halden-related assets.<\/p>\n
Under the proposed arrangement, some recovered money would first satisfy company creditors before remaining assets flowed toward Emma\u2019s trust losses and other victims.<\/p>\n
Diane had supported that order because she still wanted the company\u2019s name protected from complete collapse.<\/p>\n
Now she had changed her mind.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want Emma\u2019s trust claim placed ahead of the company interests wherever legally possible.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emma stared at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause it was your money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was true six months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo why now?\u201d<\/p>\n
Diane looked toward the courtroom door.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I heard your father tell me again.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emma\u2019s expression hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou already had the recording.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t need Dad\u2019s voice to tell you stealing from me was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Diane did not defend herself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI shouldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emma waited.<\/p>\n
Diane continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I spent years treating the company like a member of the family whose life mattered more than ours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her voice remained steady.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt isn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat company was Dad\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Diane shook her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was one of the lies I told myself.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour father worked there. He built things there. He was proud of it. But it was not his life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then Emma.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then Mark.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were.\u201d<\/p>\n
She swallowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I kept sacrificing the people he loved to preserve the thing he told me to let die.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobody spoke.<\/p>\n
Diane slid a signed instruction across the table.<\/p>\n
Her lawyer had prepared it.<\/p>\n
She was relinquishing claims she might otherwise assert over several recoverable assets.<\/p>\n
Some could be used toward Emma\u2019s restitution.<\/p>\n
Some toward other victims.<\/p>\n
It would not repair four million dollars of theft.<\/p>\n
It would cost Diane personally.<\/p>\n
No prosecutor had demanded it.<\/p>\n
Emma did not touch the paper.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you doing this so I forgive you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you hoping I will?\u201d<\/p>\n
Diane considered that.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emma\u2019s mouth tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThank you for telling the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m trying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re late.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emma took the document.<\/p>\n
Not as forgiveness.<\/p>\n
As restitution.<\/p>\n
There was a difference.<\/p>\n
Diane then looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI owe you something too.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
She seemed surprised.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t need another apology from me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have your apology.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI meant an explanation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have enough explanations.\u201d<\/p>\n
Diane lowered her eyes.<\/p>\n
That was one thing I had learned.<\/p>\n
Not every unanswered question needed an answer from the person who caused it.<\/p>\n
Sometimes explanation became another way to remain connected.<\/p>\n
I no longer needed Diane at the center of my understanding.<\/p>\n
Mark asked her one question.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Dad know you were using Emma\u2019s trust before he made that recording?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot all.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEnough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he forgive you?\u201d<\/p>\n
Diane\u2019s eyes filled.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
The answer surprised Emma.<\/p>\n
Diane continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe loved me.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked toward the wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut no. He had not forgiven me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another distinction.<\/p>\n
Love and forgiveness.<\/p>\n
Separate.<\/p>\n
Mark absorbed that quietly.<\/p>\n
Before we left, Diane said his name.<\/p>\n
He turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry I taught you that loving someone meant hiding what would hurt them.\u201d<\/p>\n
His face changed.<\/p>\n
For months, therapy had brought us back to that exact pattern.<\/p>\n
Diane had practiced it.<\/p>\n
Mark learned it.<\/p>\n
Then used it on me.<\/p>\n
He answered softly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou taught me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Diane flinched.<\/p>\n
Then Mark added:<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I did it.\u201d<\/p>\n
No inherited excuse.<\/p>\n
No easy transfer of blame.<\/p>\n
Diane nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
We left.<\/p>\n
Outside the courthouse, reporters shouted questions.<\/p>\n
We ignored them.<\/p>\n
Emma wanted lunch.<\/p>\n
Not because she was hungry.<\/p>\n
Because after hearing how her father died, she refused to spend the afternoon sitting in a dark room.<\/p>\n
We found a small place three blocks away.<\/p>\n
Mark ordered soup.<\/p>\n
Emma stole half his bread.<\/p>\n
I watched them argue about it.<\/p>\n
Brother and sister.<\/p>\n
No trust fund.<\/p>\n
No Halden company.<\/p>\n
No dead father\u2019s expectations.<\/p>\n
Just siblings.<\/p>\n
After lunch, Emma left for the train.<\/p>\n
Mark and I walked toward my office.<\/p>\n
Neither of us mentioned the six-month deadline until we reached the corner.<\/p>\n
Then he said, \u201cToday.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe said today.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stopped.<\/p>\n
Traffic moved behind him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat have you decided?\u201d<\/p>\n
I had spent weeks thinking about the question.<\/p>\n
Divorce would have been understandable.<\/p>\n
Maybe easier.<\/p>\n
A clean legal boundary after a marriage contaminated by fraud before the ceremony even began.<\/p>\n
Staying married would also be understandable.<\/p>\n
We loved each other.<\/p>\n
He had changed.<\/p>\n
I had changed.<\/p>\n
But neither answer felt accurate yet.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to go back to our marriage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s face fell slightly.<\/p>\n
He nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n
I continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to build a different one.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at me.<\/p>\n
I took my time.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe marriage we had depended on me trusting you without information and you deciding what I could handle.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t live inside that again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we stay married, we start over.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNew financial agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSeparate property.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo expectation that my assets rescue anything connected to your family.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIndependent attorneys.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cContinued therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we don\u2019t move back together tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n
He almost smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cI assumed that one.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I want you to ask me again.\u201d<\/p>\n
His expression changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAsk what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be married to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe already are.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLegally.\u201d<\/p>\n
Understanding came slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want me to propose again?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot today.\u201d<\/p>\n
He laughed once.<\/p>\n
Nervous.<\/p>\n
Relieved.<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot with the old ring.\u201d<\/p>\n
His eyebrows rose.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens to it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd not until you\u2019re asking because of where we are, not because you\u2019re trying to repair what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat might take time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at me for several seconds.<\/p>\n
Then smiled.<\/p>\n
Not broadly.<\/p>\n
Just enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can live with not knowing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Six months earlier, that sentence would have frightened him.<\/p>\n
He had needed plans.<\/p>\n
Control.<\/p>\n
Solutions.<\/p>\n
Now he let uncertainty exist.<\/p>\n
We continued walking.<\/p>\n
At my office entrance, he said goodbye.<\/p>\n
Then hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cDinner Friday?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy place?\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at him.<\/p>\n
He had moved from the hotel into a small rental apartment.<\/p>\n
I had never been there.<\/p>\n
\u201cOkay.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI cook.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat makes me reconsider.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCruel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAccurate.\u201d<\/p>\n
He smiled.<\/p>\n
Then left.<\/p>\n
That evening, my mother came to the condo.<\/p>\n
My condo again.<\/p>\n
Legally.<\/p>\n
Fully.<\/p>\n
Mine.<\/p>\n
She brought takeout.<\/p>\n
We ate at the kitchen counter where Marianne had once photographed my documents.<\/p>\n
I had renovated the office after getting the property back.<\/p>\n
Not because the old room frightened me.<\/p>\n
Because I wanted it to look like mine again.<\/p>\n
My mother asked about Mark.<\/p>\n
I told her.<\/p>\n
She listened.<\/p>\n
No opinion.<\/p>\n
That was new too.<\/p>\n
Finally she asked, \u201cAre you happy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably healthier than saying yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about you?\u201d<\/p>\n
She considered.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
My father had begun seeing a therapist too.<\/p>\n
He claimed it was because my mother threatened to move his golf clubs into the street.<\/p>\n
She claimed that was only partly true.<\/p>\n
They were learning their own version of disclosure.<\/p>\n
No secret legal maneuvers.<\/p>\n
No protecting each other through silence.<\/p>\n
My mother looked around the condo.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you regret signing it over to me?\u201d<\/p>\n
The question surprised me.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the time?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI hated it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it saved the property.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t regret that you protected it.\u201d<\/p>\n
She waited.<\/p>\n
\u201cI regret that you thought protecting it required keeping me ignorant.\u201d<\/p>\n
She nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo do I.\u201d<\/p>\n
No argument.<\/p>\n
That was enough.<\/p>\n
Later, after she left, I stood by the windows looking across Manhattan.<\/p>\n
My phone buzzed.<\/p>\n
For a second, my body remembered the anonymous messages.<\/p>\n
The old reflex.<\/p>\n
Then I looked.<\/p>\n
Mark.<\/p>\n
A photograph of a saucepan filled with something brown.<\/p>\n
FRIDAY\u2019S DINNER. PRACTICE ROUND.<\/p>\n
I stared at it.<\/p>\n
Then typed:<\/p>\n
IS THAT FOOD?<\/p>\n
His reply came immediately.<\/p>\n
ALLEGEDLY.<\/p>\n
I laughed.<\/p>\n
Alone in the kitchen.<\/p>\n
No evidence folder.<\/p>\n
No police.<\/p>\n
No hidden meaning.<\/p>\n
Just a bad dinner waiting three days away.<\/p>\n
And for the first time since the wedding, the future felt frightening for an ordinary reason.<\/p>\n
Because I wanted something from it.<\/p>\n
Six months passed exactly. I knew because Mark did not mention the deadline once. Neither did I. We had agreed that after six months of separation, therapy, independent finances, and … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29555","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\/29555","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=29555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29590,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29555\/revisions\/29590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}