Edward Mercer.<\/p>\n
The name should have been unfamiliar.<\/p>\n
Instead, a memory surfaced.<\/p>\n
A tall man at Christmas when I was very young. Silver cuff links. Peppermint breath. A hand resting on Dad\u2019s shoulder. Mom calling him Uncle Ed.<\/p>\n
I had not seen him since childhood.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour godfather,\u201d I said to Dad.<\/p>\n
He remained standing beside Grandma\u2019s kitchen table.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNorth Lake\u2019s attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Grandma believed he arranged Rebecca\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad shook his head slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never heard this.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom did not move.<\/p>\n
I looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her eyes filled.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou reacted before Grandma said his name.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI guessed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom stared at the laptop.<\/p>\n
Grandma\u2019s paused face remained on the screen.<\/p>\n
Olivia moved closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cMom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom whispered, \u201cBecause Ruth asked me about Edward.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you tell her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat she was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWere you lying?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom\u2019s silence answered.<\/p>\n
Dad stepped toward her.<\/p>\n
\u201cEllen.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked up.<\/p>\n
The expression between them was different now.<\/p>\n
Dad was no longer protecting her.<\/p>\n
He was realizing she had kept a secret from him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you know about Ed?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot here.\u201d<\/p>\n
I laughed in disbelief.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re still trying that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI need air.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her face hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not your prisoner.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. You\u2019re the woman who raised me while hiding my mother\u2019s death. You can walk out, but I\u2019ll follow you to the porch and ask the same question.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked at me for several seconds.<\/p>\n
Then sat down again.<\/p>\n
Whitfield restarted Grandma\u2019s video.<\/p>\n
Grandma explained that Edward Mercer had represented North Lake from its earliest days. He knew where the money came from, which accounts were exposed, and what Rebecca had copied.<\/p>\n
More importantly, he had the most to lose.<\/p>\n
Charles was stealing.<\/p>\n
Dad was stealing.<\/p>\n
Evan was hiding transactions.<\/p>\n
But Edward had built the legal structure that allowed the operation to survive audits and move assets.<\/p>\n
If Rebecca reached police with Thomas\u2019s secondary records, Edward faced not merely financial ruin but prison.<\/p>\n
Grandma said she had suspected Charles for years because his behavior after Rebecca\u2019s death was so openly threatening.<\/p>\n
Then Thomas changed her mind.<\/p>\n
Six years earlier, he had told Grandma something she had not understood at first.<\/p>\n
Charles cleans up money. Edward cleans up people.<\/p>\n
My skin prickled.<\/p>\n
Dad whispered, \u201cJesus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grandma continued.<\/p>\n
Thomas believed Edward had arranged Rebecca\u2019s crash.<\/p>\n
He did not know whether Edward personally touched the car.<\/p>\n
He believed Evan had helped locate her and Charles had helped destroy evidence afterward.<\/p>\n
But Edward gave the instruction.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did Thomas know?\u201d I asked the screen.<\/p>\n
Grandma answered seconds later, as though anticipating me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas told me Charles admitted it during an argument.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad sat down.<\/p>\n
He looked stunned.<\/p>\n
\u201cCharles never told me that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Grandma\u2019s video continued.<\/p>\n
Years after Rebecca\u2019s death, Thomas confronted Charles.<\/p>\n
Charles, angry and drunk, said Rebecca would still be alive if Edward had not panicked.<\/p>\n
Thomas recorded part of the conversation.<\/p>\n
The recording was missing.<\/p>\n
But Thomas claimed he had stored a copy with the secondary ledger.<\/p>\n
Unit 317.<\/p>\n
The red trunk.<\/p>\n
The trunk Evan had apparently removed.<\/p>\n
Whitfield paused the video.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf that recording exists, it may be the strongest direct evidence we have.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Evan has it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy hasn\u2019t he destroyed it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cLeverage.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAgainst Edward?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAgainst everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
That fit.<\/p>\n
Evan was a banker.<\/p>\n
Charles was a thief.<\/p>\n
Edward was a lawyer.<\/p>\n
Each had survived because the others possessed enough information to ruin him.<\/p>\n
The truth had not stayed buried through loyalty.<\/p>\n
It had stayed buried through mutually assured destruction.<\/p>\n
Whitfield resumed the video.<\/p>\n
Grandma said there was one more reason she suspected Edward.<\/p>\n
Rebecca had called him the morning she died.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe trusted him?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
Mom closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
Grandma explained that Rebecca believed Edward might help negotiate a safe exit. She intended to surrender records in exchange for protection for herself, Thomas, and me.<\/p>\n
Edward told her he would help.<\/p>\n
Instead, Grandma believed, he used the meeting to learn her route.<\/p>\n
I turned toward Mom.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew she called him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe told me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you tell Grandma?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI did. Last year.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTwenty-six years later.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy wait?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom looked at Dad.<\/p>\n
Then away.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t only Daniel I was protecting.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad stared at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
She did not answer.<\/p>\n
He stepped closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cEllen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her hands trembled.<\/p>\n
\u201cEdward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s face changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you do?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had a relationship with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room went silent.<\/p>\n
Olivia whispered, \u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom looked at her daughter.<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore your father.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad looked as though he had been struck.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow long before?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYears.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never told me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind of relationship?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom\u2019s answer came almost inaudibly.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was married.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad laughed once, bitterly.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt no satisfaction watching him receive the kind of revelation he had forced on me.<\/p>\n
Only exhaustion.<\/p>\n
Mom explained that she met Edward when she was twenty-two and working in an administrative office used by several local businesses. He was older, already established, and married.<\/p>\n
The affair lasted nearly two years.<\/p>\n
He ended it.<\/p>\n
Later she met Rebecca at work.<\/p>\n
Through Rebecca, she met Daniel.<\/p>\n
Through Daniel, she encountered Edward again.<\/p>\n
The circle was smaller than I had imagined.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew Edward was involved with North Lake.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he ask you to help Dad move money?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom hesitated.<\/p>\n
Dad stared at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The word emptied the room.<\/p>\n
Dad stepped backward.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou told me you were helping because of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEd put you there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot exactly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me Daniel was in trouble. He said paperwork needed to be corrected before an audit.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s voice rose.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe used you to watch me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were reporting to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Olivia sat down.<\/p>\n
\u201cWere either of you ever who you said you were?\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobody answered.<\/p>\n
I asked Mom, \u201cDid Edward know Rebecca was leaving?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Rebecca told him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you speak to him that day?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom\u2019s face crumpled.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
There it was.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you tell him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat Rebecca planned to stop at Ruth\u2019s before driving north.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad stared at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou told Ed too?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was scared.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou told me and Ed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I called Charles.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The chain became visible.<\/p>\n
Rebecca told Mom.<\/p>\n
Mom told Dad and Edward.<\/p>\n
Dad called Charles.<\/p>\n
Evan appeared at the motel.<\/p>\n
Someone tampered with Rebecca\u2019s brakes.<\/p>\n
Everyone later blamed everyone else.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Edward ask where she was going?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said he could help.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you believe him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter she died?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom covered her mouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I waited.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened after?\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cEdward came to see me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe next morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me Rebecca\u2019s death was an accident. He said police would discover the financial records eventually and that if I talked about anything, I could go to prison.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThreat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything else?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom began crying.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said Daniel would lose custody of you.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that mattered to you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were sleeping with my mother\u2019s husband.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou helped him steal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou gave information to the man you suspected had her killed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then you decided you should raise me?\u201d<\/p>\n
Her face twisted.<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The words made me angry in a way the money never had.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou barely knew me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI had known you since you were born.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom looked trapped again.<\/p>\n
\u201cRebecca brought you to the office sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat isn\u2019t what you meant.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said nothing.<\/p>\n
Dad turned toward her.<\/p>\n
\u201cEllen?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom\u2019s shoulders began shaking.<\/p>\n
Olivia stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat aren\u2019t you telling us?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom whispered, \u201cRebecca knew about me and Edward.\u201d<\/p>\n
I waited.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe knew before she married Daniel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause she was my friend then.\u201d<\/p>\n
The betrayal became older.<\/p>\n
Mom and Rebecca had not simply worked together.<\/p>\n
They had once been friends.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou lied about that too.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause everything became tangled.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Things become tangled accidentally. You kept tying knots.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
I asked, \u201cDid Rebecca know you were sleeping with Dad?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd she still trusted you enough to tell you her escape plan.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom broke then.<\/p>\n
Not loudly.<\/p>\n
She folded over her hands and cried with her forehead almost touching the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe trusted me one last time.\u201d<\/p>\n
I understood the source of the guilt that had shaped Mom\u2019s life.<\/p>\n
Not simply fraud.<\/p>\n
Not simply an affair.<\/p>\n
Rebecca had come to her with a final confidence.<\/p>\n
Mom had passed it to two men.<\/p>\n
One was Dad.<\/p>\n
The other may have ordered Rebecca\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
Whitfield let the silence sit before asking the next question.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Edward contact you after Thomas died?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom lifted her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
My pulse quickened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe asked whether Ruth had received anything from Thomas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you tell him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy not?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBy then I knew what he was.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was he?\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked directly at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cDangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you tell Grandma about the call?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you tell Dad?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvan?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCharles?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I studied her.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor once you kept the right secret.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt didn\u2019t help Thomas.\u201d<\/p>\n
No.<\/p>\n
It hadn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
Whitfield resumed Grandma\u2019s video.<\/p>\n
The final minutes were personal.<\/p>\n
Grandma apologized for allowing fear to determine too many decisions.<\/p>\n
She admitted she had known pieces of the truth when I was young but had convinced herself that removing me from Dad and Ellen might harm me more than leaving me with them.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was wrong to believe silence was neutral,\u201d she said. \u201cSilence always serves somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Dad.<\/p>\n
Then Mom.<\/p>\n
Neither met my eyes.<\/p>\n
Grandma continued.<\/p>\n
She explained the inheritance.<\/p>\n
The house and investments were not compensation.<\/p>\n
She knew no amount could compensate for Rebecca or Thomas.<\/p>\n
She left them to me because she wanted me to have the resources to pursue the truth without depending financially on anyone involved.<\/p>\n
That was why she had excluded Olivia.<\/p>\n
Not punishment.<\/p>\n
Strategy.<\/p>\n
Olivia began crying quietly beside me.<\/p>\n
Grandma looked into the camera.<\/p>\n
\u201cOlivia, if Amelia chooses to show you this, please understand that I loved you. I left you outside the estate because your mother and father would use you to pressure your sister. That was not your doing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Olivia covered her face.<\/p>\n
I reached for her hand before thinking.<\/p>\n
She held mine.<\/p>\n
Grandma\u2019s next words were for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not give away the estate because guilt is placed in your hands. Decide later, when you are free.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Olivia.<\/p>\n
She squeezed my fingers once.<\/p>\n
The video continued.<\/p>\n
Grandma said the ownership claim from Rebecca and Thomas might be worth far more than her own estate.<\/p>\n
But proving it required the secondary ledger and the original share documents.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Evan has taken the trunk,\u201d she said, \u201che will not destroy it unless he believes he has no alternative. Those records are his protection against Edward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whitfield paused.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Evan may still have it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe will.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow can you be certain?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Ed is alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
A terrible logic.<\/p>\n
As long as Edward Mercer lived, Evan needed leverage.<\/p>\n
I asked, \u201cWhere would he keep it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad thought.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot his house.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBank?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Too traceable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStorage?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom wiped her face.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a cabin.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat cabin?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvan\u2019s father owned a fishing cabin north of Hinckley.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe sold that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou told me he did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvan told me he transferred it into a trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whitfield opened his laptop.<\/p>\n
The property search took several minutes.<\/p>\n
A cabin remained registered to a trust.<\/p>\n
Trustee: Edward Mercer.<\/p>\n
Dad stared at the screen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat makes no sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt does if the cabin is part of their arrangement,\u201d Whitfield said.<\/p>\n
I looked at Mom.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen were you last there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTwenty years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Charles use it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEdward?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvan?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n
Every road led to the same men.<\/p>\n
Ramirez called before we could decide what to do.<\/p>\n
She had news from the warehouse.<\/p>\n
Security footage had been recovered.<\/p>\n
Someone removed the red trunk from Unit 317 eight days earlier.<\/p>\n
The man wore a cap and kept his face partly turned away.<\/p>\n
But his vehicle was visible.<\/p>\n
A dark SUV registered to Edward Mercer.<\/p>\n
My heartbeat accelerated.<\/p>\n
\u201cEdward has the ledger.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ramirez corrected me.<\/p>\n
\u201cEdward\u2019s vehicle was used. We do not yet know who was driving.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you bring him in?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re working on that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is he?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe isn\u2019t at his registered residence.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Whitfield.<\/p>\n
Ramirez continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis phone appears to be off. His assistant says he canceled appointments two days ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two days.<\/p>\n
Before I arrived.<\/p>\n
Someone knew the estate was opening.<\/p>\n
Someone knew Grandma\u2019s protections were beginning to move.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere\u2019s Evan?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t located him either.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Dad.<\/p>\n
Two men connected to Rebecca\u2019s death had vanished at the same time.<\/p>\n
Then Ramirez added one more fact.<\/p>\n
The warehouse camera had captured a second person helping load the trunk.<\/p>\n
This person\u2019s face was visible.<\/p>\n
She sent Whitfield a still image.<\/p>\n
He opened it.<\/p>\n
Mom gasped.<\/p>\n
Dad whispered a curse.<\/p>\n
Olivia leaned toward the screen.<\/p>\n
I stared at the older woman beside Edward\u2019s SUV.<\/p>\n
I had seen her face in photographs from Grandma\u2019s files.<\/p>\n
Short blond hair, now gray at the temples.<\/p>\n
Mara Henson.<\/p>\n
The missing witness was not hiding from Edward.<\/p>\n
Eight days earlier, she had helped someone take Rebecca\u2019s evidence.<\/p>\n
Edward Mercer. The name should have been unfamiliar. Instead, a memory surfaced. A tall man at Christmas when I was very young. Silver cuff links. Peppermint breath. A hand resting … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9053","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\/9053","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=9053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9073,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9053\/revisions\/9073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}