Victor\u2019s defense strategy became visible long before jury selection.<\/p>\n
He was not going to deny every financial transaction.<\/p>\n
Too many records.<\/p>\n
Not deny Harbor.<\/p>\n
Not deny paying Richard.<\/p>\n
Not deny knowing Vance.<\/p>\n
Instead he would divide conduct.<\/p>\n
Financial crimes here.<\/p>\n
Violence there.<\/p>\n
Bad people acting independently in between.<\/p>\n
Marcus became a rogue.<\/p>\n
Sylvia unstable.<\/p>\n
Nance violent.<\/p>\n
Thomas murderous.<\/p>\n
Claire dishonest.<\/p>\n
Richard corrupt.<\/p>\n
Vance self-interested.<\/p>\n
Victor, in this version, was the businessman at the center of a circle of people who repeatedly betrayed him.<\/p>\n
It was audacious.<\/p>\n
That did not make it ineffective.<\/p>\n
Complex cases create reasonable doubt when complexity itself becomes camouflage.<\/p>\n
Then his lawyers added another theme.<\/p>\n
Me.<\/p>\n
Eleanor Hayes.<\/p>\n
Former federal prosecutor who had failed to charge Victor nine years earlier.<\/p>\n
Mother of Chloe Hayes.<\/p>\n
Witness to the old investigation.<\/p>\n
Personal stake in the new case.<\/p>\n
According to the defense, I had spent years resentful over failure.<\/p>\n
Then, when Marcus harmed my daughter, I saw an opportunity to revive an old vendetta.<\/p>\n
The theory was ugly.<\/p>\n
Also predictable.<\/p>\n
Chloe heard about it during witness preparation.<\/p>\n
She looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre they allowed to say that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re allowed to argue bias if supported by evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSupported?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI had an old case against Victor.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean vendetta.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut they\u2019ll make it sound like one.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She hated that.<\/p>\n
I did not.<\/p>\n
Not because it was pleasant.<\/p>\n
Because I knew how to answer.<\/p>\n
Facts.<\/p>\n
When did I retire?<\/p>\n
Before Chloe married Marcus.<\/p>\n
How often had I investigated Victor afterward?<\/p>\n
Never.<\/p>\n
Did I recognize Sylvia when Chloe introduced us?<\/p>\n
No.<\/p>\n
Did I report Victor during those six years?<\/p>\n
No.<\/p>\n
Did I contact federal authorities about him before Thanksgiving?<\/p>\n
No.<\/p>\n
Did I even know Chloe had accessed Phoenix?<\/p>\n
No.<\/p>\n
Vendetta requires activity.<\/p>\n
My life contained absence.<\/p>\n
Sometimes absence is evidence too.<\/p>\n
Victor\u2019s attorneys filed motions seeking access to my old personal papers.<\/p>\n
Some were relevant.<\/p>\n
Some not.<\/p>\n
The judge limited discovery appropriately.<\/p>\n
They received the notes Nance stole because those were already evidence.<\/p>\n
Including:<\/p>\n
RM?<\/p>\n
My question about Richard.<\/p>\n
Defense counsel argued the note proved I suspected corruption and failed to act, then later reshaped memory to protect myself.<\/p>\n
Fine.<\/p>\n
I could explain.<\/p>\n
I suspected.<\/p>\n
Then doubted myself.<\/p>\n
Human.<\/p>\n
The defense also found old emails where I described Victor as \u201ccareful, arrogant, and dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sounded bad isolated.<\/p>\n
It sounded accurate in context.<\/p>\n
I had written it during an active case.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors are allowed to form investigative assessments.<\/p>\n
The real concern was Chloe.<\/p>\n
Victor\u2019s lawyers intended to attack her through Marcus\u2019s old contingency structure.<\/p>\n
Not using forged records once exposed.<\/p>\n
Using true facts framed aggressively.<\/p>\n
She accessed Marcus\u2019s laptop.<\/p>\n
True.<\/p>\n
Photographed financial documents.<\/p>\n
True.<\/p>\n
Removed a flash drive.<\/p>\n
True.<\/p>\n
Did not immediately report it.<\/p>\n
True.<\/p>\n
Stayed after earlier abuse.<\/p>\n
True.<\/p>\n
Continued sleeping beside Marcus after the August crash.<\/p>\n
True.<\/p>\n
Did not know at the time the brakes were sabotaged.<\/p>\n
Also true.<\/p>\n
A good cross-examination rarely needs false facts.<\/p>\n
Only selective emphasis.<\/p>\n
Chloe prepared with prosecutors.<\/p>\n
I did not participate.<\/p>\n
That boundary mattered.<\/p>\n
Her testimony had to be hers.<\/p>\n
After one session she came home furious.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey asked me why I took the flash drive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I was scared.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds weak.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt sounds true.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI also wanted proof.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen say both.\u201d<\/p>\n
She sat heavily.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey asked why I didn\u2019t leave after the wall incident.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat I loved him.\u201d<\/p>\n
She hated the answer.<\/p>\n
I did not.<\/p>\n
Love explains many decisions people later wish they had not made.<\/p>\n
Shame enters when people confuse explanation with excuse.<\/p>\n
\u201cI sound stupid.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to say that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you lied for me now, you\u2019d be helping Marcus.\u201d<\/p>\n
That landed.<\/p>\n
She nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cFine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victor\u2019s trial would include multiple counts and evidence surrounding fraud, bribery, obstruction, Laura\u2019s detention and death, Melissa\u2019s concealment, witness tampering and related conduct.<\/p>\n
Thomas\u2019s murder prosecution remained separate.<\/p>\n
Sylvia\u2019s cases too.<\/p>\n
Legal neatness did not exist.<\/p>\n
Juries would hear carefully bounded facts under evidentiary rulings.<\/p>\n
Not the entire sprawling history exactly as we had lived it.<\/p>\n
That frustrated Chloe.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy can\u2019t they hear everything?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause evidence can be relevant in one case and unfairly prejudicial in another.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it all connects.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cReality is broader than admissibility.\u201d<\/p>\n
She sighed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI hate law.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCommon side effect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jury selection began in early spring.<\/p>\n
By then Chloe had moved into her own apartment.<\/p>\n
Third floor.<\/p>\n
Two bedrooms.<\/p>\n
Lots of light.<\/p>\n
Twenty-three minutes from work.<\/p>\n
She bought a green sofa.<\/p>\n
I disliked it.<\/p>\n
She loved it.<\/p>\n
Therefore it stayed.<\/p>\n
Her first night there, she called me at 11:40.<\/p>\n
\u201cI heard something.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the hall.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you check the camera?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you want me to come over?\u201d<\/p>\n
Long silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
That answer mattered.<\/p>\n
\u201cCall if you change your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
She did not.<\/p>\n
The next morning she texted:<\/p>\n
Slept eventually.<\/p>\n
No celebration.<\/p>\n
Just progress.<\/p>\n
Victor\u2019s trial opened three weeks later.<\/p>\n
The government began with money.<\/p>\n
Smart.<\/p>\n
Jurors understand documents before conspiracies.<\/p>\n
Harbor.<\/p>\n
Shell companies.<\/p>\n
North Pine.<\/p>\n
Atlantic Meridian.<\/p>\n
Corporate theft.<\/p>\n
Then Richard.<\/p>\n
He testified to leaking federal information.<\/p>\n
Defense attacked his cooperation agreement.<\/p>\n
Fairly.<\/p>\n
Richard admitted he hoped for leniency.<\/p>\n
Then prosecutors showed corroborating payments and notes.<\/p>\n
Vance testified later.<\/p>\n
He looked diminished.<\/p>\n
No podium charisma.<\/p>\n
No public-integrity speeches.<\/p>\n
He admitted taking money.<\/p>\n
Admitted giving Victor information.<\/p>\n
Admitted knowing about the missing evidence box.<\/p>\n
Admitted going to Fairmont after Laura died.<\/p>\n
Defense counsel attacked him too.<\/p>\n
Also fairly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou are blaming Mr. Hale to save yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vance answered, \u201cI am describing what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sentence held.<\/p>\n
Then came Nance.<\/p>\n
Dangerous witness.<\/p>\n
Criminal.<\/p>\n
Violent.<\/p>\n
Self-interested.<\/p>\n
Defense counsel shredded his character for almost an hour.<\/p>\n
Nance deserved most of it.<\/p>\n
But the government never asked jurors to trust him alone.<\/p>\n
They paired every major point with records.<\/p>\n
Payments.<\/p>\n
Locations.<\/p>\n
Audio.<\/p>\n
Forensics.<\/p>\n
That was the correct structure.<\/p>\n
Then Laura.<\/p>\n
Not as witness.<\/p>\n
As evidence.<\/p>\n
Photographs.<\/p>\n
Audit report.<\/p>\n
DNA in Fairmont.<\/p>\n
Restraints.<\/p>\n
Victor\u2019s own recording:<\/p>\n
No hospitals.<\/p>\n
The courtroom changed after that.<\/p>\n
Jurors stopped looking at Victor as often.<\/p>\n
Chloe noticed too.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hates when they play his voice.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause he can\u2019t cross-examine himself.\u201d<\/p>\n
She smiled.<\/p>\n
Melissa\u2019s evidence entered more narrowly.<\/p>\n
The government could show Victor\u2019s immediate concealment after Thomas allegedly killed her.<\/p>\n
Nathan\u2019s recording supported knowledge.<\/p>\n
Victor\u2019s voice:<\/p>\n
Now you\u2019ve made her body my problem.<\/p>\n
Defense argued panic.<\/p>\n
Not homicide.<\/p>\n
The government agreed Victor had not been charged as Melissa\u2019s direct killer in this trial configuration.<\/p>\n
That precision helped credibility.<\/p>\n
Then my name appeared.<\/p>\n
Defense counsel previewed me repeatedly.<\/p>\n
Former prosecutor.<\/p>\n
Failed case.<\/p>\n
Mother.<\/p>\n
Bias.<\/p>\n
Obsession.<\/p>\n
By the time I was called, jurors probably expected a woman carrying a personal grudge like a briefcase.<\/p>\n
I took the oath.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor started with background.<\/p>\n
Career.<\/p>\n
Old Hale investigation.<\/p>\n
Limitations.<\/p>\n
Missing evidence.<\/p>\n
Richard.<\/p>\n
Vance.<\/p>\n
I admitted the case failed.<\/p>\n
That wording mattered.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you believe at the time Victor Hale committed federal crimes?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you have enough admissible evidence to charge him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defense counsel looked almost disappointed.<\/p>\n
They wanted me defensive.<\/p>\n
I was not.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor asked whether I investigated Victor after retirement.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether I maintained contact with him.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether I encouraged Chloe to investigate Marcus.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether I knew Sylvia\u2019s identity from the old case when Marcus married Chloe.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
The call.<\/p>\n
The terminal.<\/p>\n
Chloe.<\/p>\n
I described what I saw.<\/p>\n
One shoe.<\/p>\n
Split lip.<\/p>\n
No coat.<\/p>\n
Fear.<\/p>\n
Nothing else.<\/p>\n
On cross-examination, Victor\u2019s lead lawyer stood slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou disliked my client nine years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI believed evidence implicated him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat wasn\u2019t my question.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. I did not like him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Good.<\/p>\n
Truth.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were angry he escaped prosecution.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou considered that case unfinished.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPersonally, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou kept notes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wrote names in a federal evidence book.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA commercially printed copy of the Federal Rules of Evidence. It was mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
He moved on.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou once suspected Richard Mallory.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wrote his initials with a question mark.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you never reported him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
That stopped him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the time, you had no proof.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCorrect.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you chose not to accuse him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He tried another direction.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen your daughter accused Marcus, you immediately connected her case to Victor.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour old adversary.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou called former colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI called Daniel Reeves regarding preservation of evidence after security footage confirmed assault.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou used your status.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI identified my background to a dispatcher after my injured daughter described security footage that could be destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stared at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou took control.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat would you call directing police preservation strategy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cConcern.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were not merely a concerned mother.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was absolutely a concerned mother.\u201d<\/p>\n
A few jurors looked down.<\/p>\n
The lawyer changed approach.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wanted Victor Hale.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted evidence preserved.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wanted him punished.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce evidence supported charges, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor what he did to your daughter?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor crimes supported by evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd for beating you nine years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stepped closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsn\u2019t this trial personal?\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Victor.<\/p>\n
Then back at counsel.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter\u2019s survival is personal. The evidence is evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was the answer.<\/p>\n
Nothing clever.<\/p>\n
Nothing dramatic.<\/p>\n
He spent another forty minutes trying to show that my old case shaped how I interpreted new facts.<\/p>\n
Of course it did.<\/p>\n
Experience shapes interpretation.<\/p>\n
That is why evidence requires corroboration.<\/p>\n
I said so.<\/p>\n
He asked whether I could be wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Repeatedly.<\/p>\n
Yes.<\/p>\n
Could Chloe be wrong?<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Could Richard lie?<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Could Nance lie?<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Could Vance lie?<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finally he asked:<\/p>\n
\u201cThen how can this jury know anything?\u201d<\/p>\n
The prosecutor objected.<\/p>\n
The judge sustained.<\/p>\n
But the question remained in the room.<\/p>\n
The government answered over the next week.<\/p>\n
Not through trust.<\/p>\n
Through convergence.<\/p>\n
One witness could lie.<\/p>\n
A payment ledger did not care.<\/p>\n
A recorded voice did not care.<\/p>\n
DNA did not care.<\/p>\n
Metadata did not care.<\/p>\n
Separate sources aligned.<\/p>\n
That was how juries could know.<\/p>\n
Chloe testified near the end.<\/p>\n
Marcus was not the defendant.<\/p>\n
Victor was.<\/p>\n
So prosecutors focused on Victor\u2019s contingency plan, financial framing, monitoring and failure to warn.<\/p>\n
Chloe described discovering North Pine.<\/p>\n
Phoenix.<\/p>\n
The false account in her name.<\/p>\n
Victor\u2019s file on her.<\/p>\n
Defense counsel cross-examined carefully.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou stole a flash drive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI took it from my husband\u2019s safe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was not yours.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou accessed confidential documents.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou hid an insurance policy in your mother\u2019s house.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou lied to Marcus about accessing Phoenix.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Each answer clean.<\/p>\n
No embarrassment.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were angry about Claire.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHumiliated.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSuspicious.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid that affect your judgment?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defense counsel paused.<\/p>\n
That answer was not ideal for his strategy.<\/p>\n
He wanted denial.<\/p>\n
Chloe continued:<\/p>\n
\u201cIt did not create the bank account opened in my name.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt did not create Victor\u2019s recordings.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defense objected.<\/p>\n
Sustained.<\/p>\n
The jury would disregard.<\/p>\n
They would not forget.<\/p>\n
At the end of cross, counsel asked:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou want Mr. Hale convicted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chloe answered, \u201cI want you to stop asking me what I want as though it changes what he recorded himself saying.\u201d<\/p>\n
Objection.<\/p>\n
Sustained.<\/p>\n
The judge instructed her to answer only.<\/p>\n
Chloe nodded.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
\u201cYes. I believe he should be convicted.\u201d<\/p>\n
No performance.<\/p>\n
The trial closed after six weeks.<\/p>\n
Closing arguments reduced years into hours.<\/p>\n
The government:<\/p>\n
Victor built systems designed to ensure wrongdoing could be denied one person at a time.<\/p>\n
The defense:<\/p>\n
The government assembled unreliable criminals around a businessman and called their overlapping lies proof.<\/p>\n
Both stories contained fragments of truth.<\/p>\n
The jury\u2019s job was to decide whether reasonable doubt remained on each count.<\/p>\n
They deliberated three days.<\/p>\n
On the third afternoon, the courtroom filled.<\/p>\n
Victor entered.<\/p>\n
Straight suit.<\/p>\n
Controlled face.<\/p>\n
The jury filed in.<\/p>\n
Guilty.<\/p>\n
First count.<\/p>\n
Guilty.<\/p>\n
Second.<\/p>\n
Guilty.<\/p>\n
Bribery.<\/p>\n
Obstruction.<\/p>\n
Fraud conspiracy.<\/p>\n
Witness tampering.<\/p>\n
Kidnapping-related conduct involving Laura.<\/p>\n
Additional counts.<\/p>\n
Not every charge.<\/p>\n
One count produced not guilty.<\/p>\n
Another hung and was later dismissed.<\/p>\n
Reality resisted total narrative closure.<\/p>\n
Good.<\/p>\n
That made the verdict more credible to me.<\/p>\n
Victor remained still until the clerk finished.<\/p>\n
Then he turned slightly.<\/p>\n
Looked toward me.<\/p>\n
Not Chloe.<\/p>\n
Me.<\/p>\n
Nine years ago, he had left my investigation untouched by charges.<\/p>\n
Now a jury had convicted him based on evidence largely preserved by people he believed he controlled.<\/p>\n
I felt no victory.<\/p>\n
Only completion.<\/p>\n
Outside, Chloe took my hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou got him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked at me.<\/p>\n
I shook my head.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Melissa.<\/p>\n
Nathan.<\/p>\n
Laura.<\/p>\n
Margaret.<\/p>\n
Richard.<\/p>\n
Claire.<\/p>\n
Even Marcus.<\/p>\n
Even Sylvia.<\/p>\n
Evidence does not care whether the person preserving it was brave.<\/p>\n
Only whether it survives.<\/p>\n
Chloe squeezed my hand.<\/p>\n
\u201cStill boring.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVery.\u201d<\/p>\n
She laughed.<\/p>\n
And for once, Victor Hale was no longer the most important person in the story.<\/p>\n
Victor\u2019s defense strategy became visible long before jury selection. He was not going to deny every financial transaction. Too many records. Not deny Harbor. Not deny paying Richard. Not deny … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feel-every-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13913,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13857\/revisions\/13913"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}