Daniel\u2019s sentence followed me home.<\/p>\n
Sometimes accidents are just decisions nobody can prove.<\/p>\n
I hated it.<\/p>\n
Not because it sounded clever.<\/p>\n
Because it sounded rehearsed.<\/p>\n
Like something Marcus had told himself often enough to enjoy repeating.<\/p>\n
Julian wanted him arrested immediately.<\/p>\n
Ortiz explained why that could not happen.<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s memory was important.<\/p>\n
But memory, especially old memory, was not enough by itself.<\/p>\n
They needed corroboration.<\/p>\n
Records.<\/p>\n
Money.<\/p>\n
Location.<\/p>\n
Physical evidence.<\/p>\n
A connection between Marcus and Thomas on the night of the crash.<\/p>\n
So the investigation turned backward.<\/p>\n
Twenty years into bank statements.<\/p>\n
Employment files.<\/p>\n
Phone records that barely existed.<\/p>\n
Old tax documents.<\/p>\n
Pike company ledgers.<\/p>\n
The dead leave traces.<\/p>\n
Not enough.<\/p>\n
But sometimes more than we expect.<\/p>\n
Three days later, Ortiz called us to Rebecca\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
She looked tired.<\/p>\n
That frightened me.<\/p>\n
Detectives probably learned to hide excitement.<\/p>\n
Exhaustion was harder to disguise.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found a payment.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian leaned forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom Marcus?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom a Pike-associated account.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo whom?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz placed a copy on the table.<\/p>\n
The check was dated two days after Thomas died.<\/p>\n
Twenty-five thousand dollars.<\/p>\n
Payable to R. Hall.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho is R. Hall?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe Robert Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n
The name meant nothing to me.<\/p>\n
Julian shook his head too.<\/p>\n
Ortiz continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cHall owned an auto-repair garage near the road where Thomas crashed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian went still.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind of garage?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGeneral automotive work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Dad use it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo record of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Marcus?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re checking.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca pointed to the memo line.<\/p>\n
Consulting.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s vague.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened to Hall?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDied eleven years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian swore.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t correct him.<\/p>\n
Dead witnesses had become a pattern.<\/p>\n
\u201cFamily?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cA daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes she know anything?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe spoke to her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz removed another page.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe remembers her father receiving a large amount of money around that time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe paid off debts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he say where it came from?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said he helped someone with a problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian\u2019s face hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cA problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought of Marcus\u2019s phrase.<\/p>\n
Some problems are cheaper to stop early.<\/p>\n
\u201cWas Robert Hall a mechanic?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCould he cut a brake line?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
Julian stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
He turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you mean, no?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz remained calm.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a payment to a mechanic near the crash location.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo days after Dad died.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFrom a company connected to Pike.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Dad\u2019s brake line was cut.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLikely cut.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLikely?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWalter\u2019s notes say appears deliberately severed. That is strong evidence, but not absolute proof.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian stared at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cSay what you mean.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean this is significant.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why do you sound like you\u2019re trying to talk me out of believing it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause belief is not the same as a prosecutable case.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked away.<\/p>\n
I understood both of them.<\/p>\n
Julian needed the world to finally admit what happened.<\/p>\n
Ortiz needed the world to admit only what could be proved.<\/p>\n
Rebecca asked, \u201cWas Hall ever connected to Marcus personally?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe found something.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another record.<\/p>\n
A traffic citation from twenty-one years ago.<\/p>\n
Driver: Marcus Whitmore.<\/p>\n
Registered address: apartment above Hall Automotive.<\/p>\n
I stared at it.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarcus lived there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor approximately eight months.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian laughed without humor.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo he knew Hall.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVery well?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Ortiz.<\/p>\n
\u201cEnough to live above his garage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The connection was tightening.<\/p>\n
But then Ortiz showed us something unexpected.<\/p>\n
Another payment.<\/p>\n
This one occurred one week before Thomas died.<\/p>\n
Ten thousand dollars.<\/p>\n
From the same Pike-associated account.<\/p>\n
Payable to Elaine Foster.<\/p>\n
I felt the room change.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian stared at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe pantry Elaine?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was much younger then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would Pike pay her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is what we\u2019re trying to determine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca studied the check.<\/p>\n
\u201cConsulting again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt sick.<\/p>\n
Elaine had not entered Marcus\u2019s life recently.<\/p>\n
She had been there twenty years ago.<\/p>\n
The pantry.<\/p>\n
The copied identification.<\/p>\n
The property files.<\/p>\n
None of it was a late arrangement.<\/p>\n
She was part of something older.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Corinne know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo evidence she did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes Elaine admit receiving the money?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
That surprised me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did she say it was for?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz looked at me carefully.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe says she followed Thomas.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor several days.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe claims Marcus asked her.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian\u2019s hands curled.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd she did it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor ten thousand dollars?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe says she was nineteen and desperate.\u201d<\/p>\n
That word again.<\/p>\n
Desperate.<\/p>\n
So useful when people wanted to explain terrible choices.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did she follow him for?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo learn his routine.\u201d<\/p>\n
My throat tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he left work?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he came home?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhether he was alone?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian pushed his chair back.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is she now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn custody.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor this?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor current fraud-related charges. We\u2019re also reviewing the older conduct.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid she know they were going to kill Dad?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz paused.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe says no.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you believe her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not a question I can answer for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
I could.<\/p>\n
At least emotionally.<\/p>\n
I did not believe innocence built from deliberate ignorance.<\/p>\n
Elaine may not have known the final act.<\/p>\n
But she helped someone study my husband.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid she follow him the day he died?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
Ortiz met my eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everything inside me went quiet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere did he go?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe says Thomas left his office around five fifteen.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo meet Marcus?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe did not know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid she see Marcus?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian leaned forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt a diner outside town.\u201d<\/p>\n
The meeting.<\/p>\n
M.W.<\/p>\n
Offsite.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cElaine stayed in her car.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid she see Thomas leave?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Marcus?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho left first?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow long later did Marcus leave?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout ten minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Elaine follow Thomas?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe lost him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNear the highway entrance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe says Marcus called.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz checked her notes.<\/p>\n
\u201cGo home. We\u2019re done.\u201d<\/p>\n
The words were ordinary.<\/p>\n
That made them worse.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat time?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAround six twenty.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas called home at 6:41.<\/p>\n
Then police at 6:48.<\/p>\n
Crash at 7:12.<\/p>\n
There was still almost an hour missing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Marcus do?\u201d Julian asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere was Hall?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
The gap felt enormous.<\/p>\n
Rebecca asked whether Elaine remembered anything else about the diner.<\/p>\n
Ortiz nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe says Thomas appeared angry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow angry?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe pointed at Marcus. Then left abruptly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Marcus look angry?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he follow immediately?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he do?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe says he made a phone call.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo whom?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Old phone records had not survived.<\/p>\n
Another absence.<\/p>\n
Another place where truth could hide.<\/p>\n
I sat back.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Thomas discover?\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat was the meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe met Marcus because he found something.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
I corrected myself.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think.\u201d<\/p>\n
Facts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThomas didn\u2019t meet people socially after threatening him. He met Marcus because of work.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cLikely.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe already reported Pike.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo maybe Marcus offered something.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOr threatened him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOr both.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz wrote that down.<\/p>\n
I continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Thomas left angry, maybe the conversation failed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian looked toward the old file copies.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen Marcus decided to stop him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Possibly.<\/p>\n
The word remained unspoken.<\/p>\n
That evening, I could not stay inside.<\/p>\n
I walked to Mrs. Bell\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
She made tea.<\/p>\n
I told her about Elaine.<\/p>\n
She sat in silence for a long time.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was nineteen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd now she\u2019s what, forty?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mrs. Bell shook her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cImagine carrying that.\u201d<\/p>\n
I expected anger.<\/p>\n
Instead she sounded sad.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe helped them watch Thomas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen twenty years later she helped target you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe it never stopped.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe once she helped Marcus, he owned part of her life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The thought unsettled me.<\/p>\n
Blackmail.<\/p>\n
Again.<\/p>\n
Marcus collected weaknesses.<\/p>\n
Corinne\u2019s debts.<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s son.<\/p>\n
Maybe Elaine\u2019s past.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat if he held this over her?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mrs. Bell asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cWould that excuse what she did?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why does it matter?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause understanding the chain matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
She nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou sound like Detective Ortiz.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTerrible, isn\u2019t it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mrs. Bell smiled.<\/p>\n
Then her expression changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Marcus kept people trapped for years, who else is still afraid of him?\u201d<\/p>\n
That question stayed with me.<\/p>\n
The next morning, I told Rebecca.<\/p>\n
She immediately asked investigators to review Marcus\u2019s known associates not only as potential accomplices but as possible blackmail victims.<\/p>\n
It changed the approach.<\/p>\n
Within two days, one former employee came forward.<\/p>\n
Then another.<\/p>\n
Both described the same behavior.<\/p>\n
Marcus collected secrets.<\/p>\n
Debts.<\/p>\n
Affairs.<\/p>\n
Tax problems.<\/p>\n
Addictions.<\/p>\n
Small crimes.<\/p>\n
Anything useful.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe called them insurance,\u201d one former employee said.<\/p>\n
Not policies.<\/p>\n
People.<\/p>\n
Insurance.<\/p>\n
I thought of the storage unit.<\/p>\n
Files.<\/p>\n
Photographs.<\/p>\n
Leverage.<\/p>\n
Marcus did not simply build companies.<\/p>\n
He built cages.<\/p>\n
Then Ortiz found another name.<\/p>\n
Robert Hall\u2019s daughter remembered a woman who visited her father shortly before his death years later.<\/p>\n
She had not known her name.<\/p>\n
Investigators showed her photographs.<\/p>\n
She identified Elaine.<\/p>\n
Julian stared at the report.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would Elaine visit Hall?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe asked her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe refused to answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was new.<\/p>\n
Until then, Elaine had answered almost everything.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy stop there?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo explanation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Something about Robert Hall frightened her.<\/p>\n
Maybe more than Marcus.<\/p>\n
Ortiz leaned toward me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going to interview her again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan I ask something?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTell her I know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cKnow what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat she followed Thomas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not sure that helps.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen don\u2019t say it unless it does.\u201d<\/p>\n
She studied me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy do you want her to know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause she looked me in the face at the pantry.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz said nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe helped me with forms. She listened to me apologize for being there. She knew whose widow I was.\u201d<\/p>\n
My throat tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe still copied my identification.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI want her to understand I am no longer the woman who doesn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz nodded slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll right.\u201d<\/p>\n
The next interview lasted three hours.<\/p>\n
We did not attend.<\/p>\n
At the end, Ortiz called.<\/p>\n
Elaine had finally explained why she visited Robert Hall.<\/p>\n
Not once.<\/p>\n
Several times.<\/p>\n
Hall had started drinking heavily after Thomas\u2019s death.<\/p>\n
He grew frightened.<\/p>\n
He believed Marcus would eventually blame him if anyone reopened the case.<\/p>\n
So he gave Elaine something.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d Julian asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cA cassette tape.\u201d<\/p>\n
My heart pounded.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was on it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe says she never listened.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz paused.<\/p>\n
\u201cElaine hid it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn a bank safe-deposit box.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes it still exist?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan you get it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re obtaining access.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does she think is on it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz\u2019s voice lowered.<\/p>\n
\u201cRobert Hall told her it was his protection.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProtection from whom?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe asked.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said, \u2018The man who paid me to ruin Carter\u2019s brakes.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Julian closed his eyes.<\/p>\n
I gripped the edge of the table.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat man?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz paused.<\/p>\n
\u201cHall told her the name.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stopped breathing.<\/p>\n
\u201cMarcus?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
The answer shocked us both.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen who?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz looked down at her notes.<\/p>\n
\u201cHarlan Pike.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s sentence followed me home. Sometimes accidents are just decisions nobody can prove. I hated it. Not because it sounded clever. Because it sounded rehearsed. Like something Marcus had told … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8495","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\/8495","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=8495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8530,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions\/8530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}