Thomas did not speak on the drive to the hospital.<\/p>\n
He sat beside me with both hands clenched.<\/p>\n
Felix followed in another car.<\/p>\n
Police transported Daniel ahead of us.<\/p>\n
The partially burned records went into evidence.<\/p>\n
For once, we did not possess the documents ourselves.<\/p>\n
I found that strangely reassuring.<\/p>\n
Evidence outside the Blake family had a better chance of surviving.<\/p>\n
At the hospital, Daniel was taken for scans.<\/p>\n
Head injury.<\/p>\n
Concussion.<\/p>\n
Possible fractured rib.<\/p>\n
No life-threatening bleeding.<\/p>\n
Thomas stood near the emergency-room doors staring at nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you remember giving a sample?\u201d<\/p>\n
He did not look at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSperm.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBlood?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMany times.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFertility testing?\u201d<\/p>\n
He closed his eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow old?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTwenty-six.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father wanted proof I could produce heirs.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt sick.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe founder.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you ever see the result?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me the test was normal.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the sample?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI assumed destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n
There it was.<\/p>\n
The same assumption Felix and I had made.<\/p>\n
The same assumption Elise had been encouraged to make about her body.<\/p>\n
Samples entered a system.<\/p>\n
Then never truly left.<\/p>\n
Thomas whispered, \u201cDaniel could be mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou heard him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was injured.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou saw the file.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cT.B. donor material proves nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt proves enough to investigate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas turned toward me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen explain.\u201d<\/p>\n
His face tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Daniel is my son, everything I\u2019ve done for thirty years changes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI believed he was my sister\u2019s child.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe still may legally be.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut biologically\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re not responsible for what was done without your knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sentence sounded strange coming from me.<\/p>\n
I had spent days judging everyone around me for choices.<\/p>\n
This was different.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo consent,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
Thomas laughed without humor.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat word keeps appearing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause none of this works without stealing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at me.<\/p>\n
For once, Thomas seemed less like an attorney manipulating an outcome and more like a man whose body had joined the evidence.<\/p>\n
Caroline arrived.<\/p>\n
She walked toward Thomas slowly.<\/p>\n
He looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need to talk about Anna.\u201d<\/p>\n
Caroline stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cLater.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked toward Daniel\u2019s room.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot later anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stepped away.<\/p>\n
Some conversations belonged to family even when family had been constructed from secrets.<\/p>\n
Felix found me at the vending machines.<\/p>\n
\u201cDaniel?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStable.\u201d<\/p>\n
He nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Thomas?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Felix leaned against the wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cI keep thinking about Grandfather.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe tested Thomas for heirs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe arranged Alice\u2019s pregnancy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe created the trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Felix looked down.<\/p>\n
\u201cI used to admire him.\u201d<\/p>\n
That did not surprise me.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe built everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is usually how family myths work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Felix looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re very calm.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m exhausted.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
He studied me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re different.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think you are.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen maybe you never knew me well enough to notice.\u201d<\/p>\n
The words hurt him.<\/p>\n
I did not take them back.<\/p>\n
Daniel woke near sunrise.<\/p>\n
Only Thomas, Caroline, and police were initially allowed inside.<\/p>\n
An hour later, Daniel asked for me.<\/p>\n
Not Felix.<\/p>\n
Not Harold.<\/p>\n
Me.<\/p>\n
I entered.<\/p>\n
His face was bruised.<\/p>\n
A white bandage covered one temple.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou look terrible,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
He smiled faintly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou look disappointed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRelieved.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s kinder than I deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n
I sat.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think I didn\u2019t know Elise was being used.\u201d<\/p>\n
I watched him.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot at first.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen did you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter October seventeenth.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe night she was drugged.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel closed his eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had drinks with her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you drug her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you sleep with her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe remembers you helping her outside.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA car came.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhose?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMartin\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did you let her get in?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought Felix had sent it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe driver said Felix was waiting.\u201d<\/p>\n
I said nothing.<\/p>\n
Daniel continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cI called her the next morning.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe didn\u2019t answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you know about the procedure?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot until months later.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer system audit.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou own the lab.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI inherited control from Lydia.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLydia Mercer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHarold said she was your mother.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe raised me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWas she?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was the answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you know Alice was your legal mother?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot until recently.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat were you told growing up?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat Lydia had me privately and Harold was my father.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho told you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLydia.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWas she lying?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was repeating what Martin told her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did Martin control her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDebt. Employment. Medical care.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone had a leash.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat made you question it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGenetic screening.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI assume not the first test you had.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI ran one secretly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAgainst whom?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHarold first.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wasn\u2019t my father.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about Alice?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI had no sample.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMargaret?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLater.\u201d<\/p>\n
My pulse quickened.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaternal relationship impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n
That stopped me.<\/p>\n
\u201cMargaret is not your biological mother.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen Thomas?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPaternal match.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStrong?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cParent-level.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas was his father.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho is your mother?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel looked toward the door.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is what Martin was trying to keep me from proving.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause my mother changes the trust more than my father.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
He closed his eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnna Weber.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Caroline\u2019s dead sister.<\/p>\n
Thomas\u2019s biological daughter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat would make Thomas both your father and Anna\u2019s father.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat implies incest.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s voice sharpened.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo sexual relationship occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou already know what they were capable of.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stolen reproductive material.<\/p>\n
Secret fertility procedures.<\/p>\n
Embryo creation without consent.<\/p>\n
The truth appeared before I wanted it.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey used Thomas\u2019s sperm and Anna\u2019s egg.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt sick.<\/p>\n
\u201cFather and daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cGenetic concentration.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe founder believed closer inheritance lines strengthened claims.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds like pseudoscience.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd monstrous.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe created you as some kind of engineered heir.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnna underwent fertility preservation after an ovarian condition.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid she consent to egg retrieval?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo this use?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Thomas\u2019s stored sample.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTaken years earlier.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNeither knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat role did Alice have?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe carried me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout knowing whose embryo?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s eyes darkened.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was told it came from her and an anonymous donor.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another woman deceived.<\/p>\n
Another pregnancy built from stolen material.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Alice carried you. Lydia raised you. Anna was your genetic mother. Thomas your genetic father.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Harold was presented as your father.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy so many layers?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause my grandfather wanted the child hidden until useful.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat usefulness?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel breathed carefully because of his ribs.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted an heir outside Harold\u2019s household who could be inserted if Harold\u2019s children failed his requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA backup.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The word was horrifying.<\/p>\n
Evan.<\/p>\n
Lily.<\/p>\n
Daniel.<\/p>\n
Backups.<\/p>\n
Succession children.<\/p>\n
Not family.<\/p>\n
Contingency planning.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Margaret know?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel looked away.<\/p>\n
\u201cPartly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe knew Alice carried an implanted embryo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid she know whose?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnna?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe discovered it years later.\u201d<\/p>\n
My pulse quickened.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s the genetic program Anna found.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Martin threatened her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen she died.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think it was an accident.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvidence?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would Martin kill her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe copied records proving the founder had ordered non-consensual reproductive procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich could destroy the trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd expose criminal acts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe founder was dead by then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMartin wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought of the placeholder identity.<\/p>\n
Anna Weber used again and again.<\/p>\n
Not only as a warning to Thomas.<\/p>\n
As a cruel internal signature of the system she had tried to expose.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did Martin kidnap you?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know if he personally did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI left my office with the birth record.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA car blocked me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many people?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRecognize them?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOne worked for Martin\u2019s security contractor.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere did they take you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSt. Agnes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey wanted the birth certificate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey tore it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI refused to hand it over.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened to the complete copy?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel smiled faintly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey didn\u2019t find it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCloud storage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Finally, someone had learned.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid they ask about anything else?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe genetic files proving Thomas and Anna were my parents.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid they get them?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re stored outside Mercer systems.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith whom?\u201d<\/p>\n
His eyes moved toward me.<\/p>\n
\u201cMargaret.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
I almost laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe knows.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe knows everything now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid she always?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen did you tell her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSix months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
The same period Margaret learned Lily was alive.<\/p>\n
The same period the latest plan accelerated.<\/p>\n
Everything had converged then.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t she reveal it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s expression hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Margaret believed one clean exposure would destroy the employees, the foundation, and everyone connected to the trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo she staged controlled collapses.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEvan protected quietly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLily hidden.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCodicil surfaced only when necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd me used as the trigger.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel looked ashamed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I sat back.<\/p>\n
Everyone agreed on that part eventually.<\/p>\n
The door opened.<\/p>\n
Thomas entered.<\/p>\n
He looked at Daniel.<\/p>\n
Neither man spoke.<\/p>\n
Then Daniel said, \u201cYou didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas\u2019s face crumpled.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was such a small mercy.<\/p>\n
But Thomas looked almost unable to carry it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d he whispered.<\/p>\n
Daniel gave him a tired smile.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor existing?\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas laughed once through tears.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen don\u2019t apologize for something done to both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The same lesson again.<\/p>\n
Consent.<\/p>\n
Responsibility.<\/p>\n
Blame.<\/p>\n
Different things.<\/p>\n
My phone buzzed.<\/p>\n
Anonymous number.<\/p>\n
Thomas looked at his own phone.<\/p>\n
Not him.<\/p>\n
Margaret, perhaps.<\/p>\n
Or someone else.<\/p>\n
I opened it.<\/p>\n
MARTIN\u2019S FLIGHT MOVED UP.<\/p>\n
DEPARTURE IN NINETY MINUTES.<\/p>\n
Another message followed.<\/p>\n
HE HAS THE ORIGINAL ANNA FILES.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
IF HE LEAVES, YOU LOSE THE ONLY RECORD PROVING WHO ORDERED THE PROGRAM.<\/p>\n
I showed Daniel.<\/p>\n
He tried to sit up.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
The nurse immediately stopped him.<\/p>\n
I looked at Thomas.<\/p>\n
\u201cCan authorities hold Martin?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the kidnapping evidence, maybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need identification.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel said, \u201cI can identify the contractor.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMartin can deny ordering it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about the forged consent?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStrong, but slow.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about Anna\u2019s files?\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they show direct authorization, they connect Martin to the reproductive program.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the founder.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is the plane?\u201d<\/p>\n
He checked.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrivate airport north field.\u201d<\/p>\n
Felix appeared in the doorway.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know that airport.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy family uses it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you get us inside?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice should handle this.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey should.\u201d<\/p>\n
I took out my phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo call them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then I looked at Felix.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd we\u2019re going too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas did not speak on the drive to the hospital. He sat beside me with both hands clenched. Felix followed in another car. Police transported Daniel ahead of us. The … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6091","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\/6091","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=6091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6126,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6091\/revisions\/6126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}