Mark did not ask me to believe him.<\/p>\n
That helped.<\/p>\n
He stared at the photograph Bruce had sent and said, \u201cI want the police to test it.\u201d<\/p>\n
No excuses.<\/p>\n
No outrage that I might doubt him.<\/p>\n
No demand that being my son should count as evidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cGood,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
His eyes met mine.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think I might've done it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
He nodded slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat hurts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it's fair.\u201d<\/p>\n
That hurt me.<\/p>\n
Growing up, Mark had always wanted immediate forgiveness.<\/p>\n
He would confess to breaking something and then hover, waiting for me to restore the world.<\/p>\n
This man was finally learning that some damage had to remain uncomfortable while facts caught up.<\/p>\n
Detective Ortiz arrived at the hotel before dawn.<\/p>\n
She collected the voicemail and photograph.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not contact Bruce.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI won't.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not go to the marina.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI won't.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked at me suspiciously.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo do I.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police would watch the marina anyway.<\/p>\n
If Bruce appeared, they wanted him.<\/p>\n
At nine that morning, the handwriting expert called Samuel.<\/p>\n
He came to our hotel room with the preliminary findings.<\/p>\n
My signature on the twenty-five-thousand-dollar authorization was almost certainly simulated.<\/p>\n
Copied.<\/p>\n
Slowly drawn.<\/p>\n
The expert found several unusual tremors and pen lifts inconsistent with my authentic signatures.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about Mark's initials?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlso questionable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark exhaled.<\/p>\n
\u201cQuestionable isn't innocent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d Samuel said. \u201cBut there's more.\u201d<\/p>\n
The M.M. initials had apparently been added with different ink.<\/p>\n
Possibly at a different time.<\/p>\n
Bruce's photograph was designed to make the document look like a single completed authorization.<\/p>\n
It wasn't.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomebody added my initials later,\u201d Mark said.<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
I answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cInsurance.\u201d<\/p>\n
He frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor whom?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor whoever actually forged my name.\u201d<\/p>\n
A second person implicated on paper makes blame easier to spread.<\/p>\n
If discovered, Alicia could point to Mark.<\/p>\n
Bruce could point to Alicia.<\/p>\n
Everyone could claim someone else acted.<\/p>\n
Raymond had written about layers in his ledger.<\/p>\n
Not just companies.<\/p>\n
People.<\/p>\n
Samuel asked Mark a question.<\/p>\n
\u201cHave you ever initialed documents M.M.?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHundreds.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Alicia have access?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBruce?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably through Alicia.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark rubbed his face.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds terrible when you say it aloud.\u201d<\/p>\n
Most of the truth did.<\/p>\n
Detective Ortiz called from the marina at twelve twenty.<\/p>\n
Bruce did not appear.<\/p>\n
Nobody expected him to.<\/p>\n
But police found something in a storage locker rented under a false name.<\/p>\n
The locker contained property files.<\/p>\n
Copies of deeds.<\/p>\n
Photographs of houses.<\/p>\n
Financial profiles.<\/p>\n
Information about older homeowners.<\/p>\n
My name appeared in three folders.<\/p>\n
Margaret Lewis appeared in two.<\/p>\n
So did five others from Raymond's ledger.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is bigger than Dorothy,\u201d Samuel said.<\/p>\n
Ortiz agreed.<\/p>\n
The files suggested Bruce had developed a repeatable strategy.<\/p>\n
Identify strategically valuable property.<\/p>\n
Find family members with financial pressure.<\/p>\n
Create urgency.<\/p>\n
Present low offers.<\/p>\n
Use concerns about age, maintenance, or capacity where useful.<\/p>\n
Not every case was illegal.<\/p>\n
That was part of what made the pattern effective.<\/p>\n
Many owners had willingly sold.<\/p>\n
The question was whether their willingness had been manufactured through deception.<\/p>\n
Then Ortiz told us what wasn't in the locker.<\/p>\n
No original transfer authorization.<\/p>\n
No computer.<\/p>\n
No ledger.<\/p>\n
Bruce had baited me with something he probably didn't possess.<\/p>\n
Mark sat on the hotel bed.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo we still don't know who forged it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I hated unfinished questions.<\/p>\n
Raymond did too.<\/p>\n
He used to say an unanswered question was either waiting for more information or asking the wrong thing.<\/p>\n
I looked at Samuel.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe we're asking the wrong thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot who forged my signature.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat else would we ask?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did they submit it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel understood first.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe business center.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The bank records showed the transfer request had been submitted electronically from a business center eighteen months earlier.<\/p>\n
Security footage was gone.<\/p>\n
But business centers kept other records.<\/p>\n
Printing.<\/p>\n
Scanning.<\/p>\n
Computer logins.<\/p>\n
Payments.<\/p>\n
Maybe even network logs.<\/p>\n
Samuel called the location.<\/p>\n
It still existed.<\/p>\n
The manager initially said records that old were unlikely to remain.<\/p>\n
Then Samuel mentioned an active police investigation.<\/p>\n
His enthusiasm improved.<\/p>\n
Detective Ortiz obtained what she needed.<\/p>\n
By late afternoon, they found an old billing archive.<\/p>\n
The transfer had been submitted from a rented conference room.<\/p>\n
Paid by credit card.<\/p>\n
Not Alicia's.<\/p>\n
Not Bruce's.<\/p>\n
Mark's.<\/p>\n
He stared at the report.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn't there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere were you?\u201d Ortiz asked.<\/p>\n
He gave the date.<\/p>\n
Then stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the Denver conference.\u201d<\/p>\n
He searched his calendar.<\/p>\n
He had been out of state for four days.<\/p>\n
Airline records confirmed it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo somebody used your card,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlicia had an authorized copy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
The business center booking had been made under Mark's name.<\/p>\n
His card.<\/p>\n
His initials later appearing on the transfer.<\/p>\n
Someone had been constructing a trail toward him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho checked into the room?\u201d Ortiz asked.<\/p>\n
The old reservation record listed Mark Mercer.<\/p>\n
No identification scan remained.<\/p>\n
But the business center had recently replaced its security system.<\/p>\n
During migration, older camera files had been archived to cloud storage.<\/p>\n
The manager wasn't sure how far back they went.<\/p>\n
We waited.<\/p>\n
Waiting became the hardest part.<\/p>\n
At six twelve, Ortiz called.<\/p>\n
\u201cDorothy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found video.\u201d<\/p>\n
My heart began pounding.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan we see it?\u201d<\/p>\n
An hour later, we were at the station.<\/p>\n
The footage was grainy.<\/p>\n
No sound.<\/p>\n
The date and time appeared in one corner.<\/p>\n
A hallway.<\/p>\n
Conference-room doors.<\/p>\n
People moving in and out.<\/p>\n
Then Alicia entered the frame.<\/p>\n
Mark stopped breathing.<\/p>\n
She wore a dark coat and carried a large envelope.<\/p>\n
No surprise.<\/p>\n
Not really.<\/p>\n
But seeing it was different.<\/p>\n
She entered the conference room.<\/p>\n
Seven minutes later, Bruce arrived.<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
He looked younger.<\/p>\n
Same walk.<\/p>\n
Same polished confidence.<\/p>\n
He carried a laptop bag.<\/p>\n
They remained inside for thirty-four minutes.<\/p>\n
Then Bruce left.<\/p>\n
Alicia stayed.<\/p>\n
Five minutes later, a third person appeared.<\/p>\n
Mark leaned toward the screen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho is that?\u201d<\/p>\n
The man's face turned toward the camera.<\/p>\n
I knew him.<\/p>\n
Not well.<\/p>\n
But enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas Keating.\u201d<\/p>\n
The county planning official.<\/p>\n
Samuel swore quietly.<\/p>\n
Keating entered the conference room.<\/p>\n
Twelve minutes later, he left carrying Alicia's envelope.<\/p>\n
She departed shortly afterward with nothing in her hands.<\/p>\n
Detective Ortiz froze the frame.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are three people involved.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut which one forged Dorothy's signature?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz changed camera angles.<\/p>\n
A second camera faced the shared printing station outside the conference rooms.<\/p>\n
At 3:42 p.m., Alicia appeared.<\/p>\n
She carried papers.<\/p>\n
She scanned several pages.<\/p>\n
Then she returned to the room.<\/p>\n
At 3:47, Bruce came out.<\/p>\n
He used the printer.<\/p>\n
He examined one page.<\/p>\n
Returned inside.<\/p>\n
At 3:51, Keating arrived.<\/p>\n
Nothing showed the actual signature being written.<\/p>\n
But the timeline established all three were present when the transfer was submitted.<\/p>\n
Mark stared at his wife on the screen.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe knew I was in Denver.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe used my card.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe booked it in my name.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He covered his mouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was setting me up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maybe.<\/p>\n
Or simply using the easiest available payment method.<\/p>\n
We still didn't know.<\/p>\n
I refused to turn suspicion into certainty before evidence earned it.<\/p>\n
Detective Ortiz appreciated that.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere's another camera.\u201d<\/p>\n
She played footage from the lobby.<\/p>\n
Alicia entered at 2:58.<\/p>\n
Before going upstairs, she stopped near the reception desk.<\/p>\n
She opened the envelope.<\/p>\n
For two seconds, the contents faced the camera.<\/p>\n
Ortiz froze the image.<\/p>\n
A photocopy of my driver's license.<\/p>\n
A bank form.<\/p>\n
And something blue.<\/p>\n
My financial binder.<\/p>\n
Not the entire binder.<\/p>\n
One page removed from it.<\/p>\n
I knew which page.<\/p>\n
My signature sheet.<\/p>\n
After Raymond died, Samuel had once asked me to sign several specimen signatures for updated banking records.<\/p>\n
I kept a copy.<\/p>\n
Alicia had taken it.<\/p>\n
The source for the forgery.<\/p>\n
Mark stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need air.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz stopped him.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
She had more.<\/p>\n
The business center's scan logs showed three documents sent that afternoon.<\/p>\n
The bank transfer.<\/p>\n
A copy of my driver's license.<\/p>\n
And a letter authorizing Bruce Carter to act as my property consultant.<\/p>\n
My signature appeared on that too.<\/p>\n
Forged.<\/p>\n
Samuel stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that's how Bruce created the client relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n
The twenty-five-thousand-dollar transfer wasn't only theft.<\/p>\n
It created a history.<\/p>\n
Money paid from me to Bruce.<\/p>\n
A signed engagement letter.<\/p>\n
If I later claimed I had never hired him, he had paperwork saying otherwise.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were building legitimacy,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The plan was elegant in an ugly way.<\/p>\n
Make Bruce my consultant on paper.<\/p>\n
Create evidence that Mark approved.<\/p>\n
Then when Alicia eventually brought me genuine sale documents, everything before them would make the transaction appear ordinary.<\/p>\n
Except for one problem.<\/p>\n
Raymond's records.<\/p>\n
He had kept enough to expose the pattern.<\/p>\n
Detective Ortiz left the room.<\/p>\n
When she returned, she was carrying a second report.<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas Keating was picked up forty minutes ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he talk?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cImmediately asked for an attorney.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel smiled without humor.<\/p>\n
\u201cWise.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut before his attorney arrived, he said something.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz looked at Mark.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said Alicia forged the signature.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark closed his eyes.<\/p>\n
Then Ortiz looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe claims Bruce told her how.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt no triumph.<\/p>\n
Only exhaustion.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you believe him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot without corroboration.\u201d<\/p>\n
Good.<\/p>\n
I was learning to like Detective Ortiz.<\/p>\n
Then an officer entered and whispered to her.<\/p>\n
Her expression changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found Bruce.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNear the state line.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you arrest him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe ran.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs he hurt?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Officers caught him.\u201d<\/p>\n
I exhaled.<\/p>\n
For the first time since the pocket call, Bruce was no longer somewhere unseen.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes he have the documents?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey're searching his vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n
My phone rang.<\/p>\n
Alicia.<\/p>\n
Detective Ortiz looked at the screen.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe's still here in the building.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alicia was in another interview room.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy is she calling me?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe asked permission.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Mark.<\/p>\n
He shook his head.<\/p>\n
Not telling me no.<\/p>\n
Telling me he didn't want to hear her.<\/p>\n
I answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Alicia was crying.<\/p>\n
\u201cDorothy, they told me they found Bruce.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe's going to blame everything on me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe he should blame you for the things you did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
The words were almost inaudible.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
For once, she didn't explain.<\/p>\n
Didn't minimize.<\/p>\n
Didn't say she was scared.<\/p>\n
Didn't say Raymond made her do it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI forged your signature.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room became silent.<\/p>\n
Mark stared at the phone.<\/p>\n
I sat down.<\/p>\n
Alicia continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cBruce showed me how to copy it. Keating watched. I did it.\u201d<\/p>\n
There it was.<\/p>\n
The answer.<\/p>\n
Not satisfying.<\/p>\n
Not dramatic.<\/p>\n
Simply ugly.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo move the money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Bruce?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPartly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was the rest for?\u201d<\/p>\n
She cried harder.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy debts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSeven thousand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Twenty-five thousand stolen.<\/p>\n
Seven thousand for Alicia.<\/p>\n
The rest moved through Bruce.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Mark's initials?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI did those too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark walked away.<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy frame him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn't trying to.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBruce said we needed a family authorization.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou used his credit card.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was away.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou booked under his name.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBruce said it would make the paperwork stronger.\u201d<\/p>\n
Each answer made the same point.<\/p>\n
She had known.<\/p>\n
Maybe not every consequence.<\/p>\n
But enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy are you telling me now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I am tired.\u201d<\/p>\n
I almost laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou're tired?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know I don't deserve sympathy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen don't ask for it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI won't.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was new too.<\/p>\n
Alicia breathed shakily.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere's one more thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Ortiz.<\/p>\n
She leaned closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe house wasn't the final target.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lake parcel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alicia's voice changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don't.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere's something under the original deed restriction.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat restriction?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRaymond found it before he died.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFound what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA reversion clause.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel's face went blank.<\/p>\n
I had never seen that happen.<\/p>\n
\u201cExplain.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alicia continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf the access strip is transferred separately from the lake parcel, ownership of part of the shoreline changes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo whom?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho knows?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBruce.\u201d<\/p>\n
Detective Ortiz wrote quickly.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Daniel?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel whispered, \u201cThat's why they needed the house and lake interests coordinated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alicia said, \u201cBruce told me the shoreline could be worth more than the house, the access, everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don't know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEstimate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said if they controlled it, Crossfield could build the marina.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought of the old development maps.<\/p>\n
A marina had never appeared.<\/p>\n
Samuel looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat could change the entire valuation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPotentially tens of millions across the project.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room went still.<\/p>\n
The house had never been the prize.<\/p>\n
It was the key.<\/p>\n
And the key opened something far larger.<\/p>\n
Alicia whispered, \u201cDorothy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRaymond knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at his handwriting in my mind.<\/p>\n
Maps.<\/p>\n
Circles.<\/p>\n
Decoys.<\/p>\n
Warnings.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d Alicia said. \u201cHe knew exactly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause the reversion doesn't go to the developer.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n
Alicia answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo the Mercer family trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel stared at me.<\/p>\n
I didn't understand yet.<\/p>\n
He did.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
He sat slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means if the clause is valid, Raymond may have structured things so the development cannot obtain the shoreline rights simply by buying your property.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho controls them?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alicia whispered through the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd that's why Bruce needed you declared incapable.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pieces finally locked together.<\/p>\n
Not merely to sell my house.<\/p>\n
Not merely to steal a bargain.<\/p>\n
They needed someone else legally empowered to control the trust.<\/p>\n
Someone they believed they could influence.<\/p>\n
Mark.<\/p>\n
My son looked at the phone.<\/p>\n
His face emptied.<\/p>\n
Alicia spoke one final sentence.<\/p>\n
\u201cBruce never needed Dorothy to die.\u201d<\/p>\n
She paused.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe needed Mark to become Dorothy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark did not ask me to believe him. That helped. He stared at the photograph Bruce had sent and said, \u201cI want the police to test it.\u201d No excuses. No … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9282","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\/9282","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=9282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9302,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions\/9302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insightdrama.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}