I drove to Rachel\u2019s office before sunrise.<\/p>\n
She had already warned me not to forward Lily\u2019s photographs to myself until we discussed how they had been obtained.<\/p>\n
\u201cPossession matters,\u201d she said when I arrived. \u201cSo does access.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe took pictures in their house.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes she live there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid she have permission to enter the office?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen don\u2019t send me anything yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
The legal caution frustrated me.<\/p>\n
The facts did not.<\/p>\n
Lily had read enough aloud that I could reconstruct the email.<\/p>\n
Dad had written to Evan Mercer three days after thirty-two thousand dollars left the education account.<\/p>\n
My older daughter mapped the corridor for a class and thinks the city is moving toward redevelopment before the official announcement.<\/p>\n
I sat across from Rachel.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe used my work.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe mocked that project.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean he didn\u2019t believe it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe literally told me I was wasting time.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPeople often criticize ideas publicly and act on them privately.\u201d<\/p>\n
I hated how true that sounded.<\/p>\n
Rachel wrote several notes.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid your class project rely on confidential information?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Public indicators.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo your conclusion was speculative.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCould your father have independently reached the same conclusion?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wouldn\u2019t have known where to look.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCould Mercer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen the email establishes that your father referenced your analysis. It does not establish that the investment depended on it.\u201d<\/p>\n
I nodded.<\/p>\n
Precision again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about the thirty-two thousand?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re closer.\u201d<\/p>\n
She opened a new document.<\/p>\n
Their attorney had finally produced partial financial records.<\/p>\n
The thirty-two thousand had moved from the educational account to a joint account belonging to my parents.<\/p>\n
Nine days later, seventy-five thousand left that joint account for RBM Holdings.<\/p>\n
I stared at the dates.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much was already in the joint account?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout fifty-one thousand.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo without my thirty-two\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey would not have had seventy-five thousand.\u201d<\/p>\n
My heartbeat became loud in my ears.<\/p>\n
Rachel continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat doesn\u2019t prove every dollar in the investment came proportionally from your funds.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMoney is fungible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut practically?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPractically, your educational money increased the balance used for the investment.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at the statement.<\/p>\n
Then at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey used my inheritance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is the direction the evidence points.\u201d<\/p>\n
For once, she did not soften it.<\/p>\n
I sat back.<\/p>\n
The anger I had expected earlier finally arrived.<\/p>\n
Not explosive.<\/p>\n
Dense.<\/p>\n
Heavy enough to make my arms ache.<\/p>\n
My grandfather had saved forty thousand dollars for me.<\/p>\n
My parents had combined it with Lily\u2019s.<\/p>\n
Some funded Paris.<\/p>\n
What remained entered their personal account.<\/p>\n
Then Dad used it to invest in a neighborhood I had identified through schoolwork he had dismissed.<\/p>\n
The investment failed.<\/p>\n
They never restored my money.<\/p>\n
Then, when I asked for help with tuition, they told me I did not deserve it.<\/p>\n
A laugh escaped me.<\/p>\n
Rachel watched carefully.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s almost impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow completely they managed to use every part of my education except me.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said nothing.<\/p>\n
I looked at the bank statement again.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey used the money Grandpa left for school.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey used my school project.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then they refused to help me finish school.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked toward the ceiling.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s almost art.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel let me sit with it.<\/p>\n
Then she said, \u201cThere\u2019s one more document.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course there was.<\/p>\n
She handed me a printed email chain.<\/p>\n
Unlike Lily\u2019s photographs, this one had been obtained through counsel.<\/p>\n
Sender: Richard Cole.<\/p>\n
Recipient: Evan Mercer.<\/p>\n
Copied: Martin Alvarez.<\/p>\n
My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cMartin?\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel nodded.<\/p>\n
I started reading.<\/p>\n
The chain began with Dad summarizing what I had told him about the corridor.<\/p>\n
Mercer responded enthusiastically.<\/p>\n
Then Martin replied.<\/p>\n
Richard, I need to be clear that student analyses are educational exercises, not investment recommendations. Hannah\u2019s project identified plausible indicators, but the city\u2019s plans are not final, and she should not be treated as having provided professional advice.<\/p>\n
I read it twice.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe warned Dad.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The next email came from Dad.<\/p>\n
Understood. I\u2019m not involving Hannah. I only mentioned her work because she noticed several things that line up with what Evan has been hearing.<\/p>\n
Then Mercer.<\/p>\n
That was enough to make us look harder.<\/p>\n
Martin replied one final time.<\/p>\n
Looking harder is reasonable. Investing family money you cannot afford to lose is not. Please keep Hannah out of this.<\/p>\n
I stopped.<\/p>\n
The room felt smaller.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did Dad know Martin well enough to email him?\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel slid another page toward me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey met through Mercer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout two months before the investment.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at Martin\u2019s warning.<\/p>\n
Please keep Hannah out of this.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe never told me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMartin.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re angry with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was true.<\/p>\n
Martin had been one of the first people to take my abilities seriously.<\/p>\n
He had recommended me for work.<\/p>\n
He had encouraged me to study redevelopment.<\/p>\n
He had changed the direction of my life.<\/p>\n
Now I discovered he had known my father was considering an investment based partly on my student project.<\/p>\n
\u201cCould he have told me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShould he have?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not a legal question.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at her.<\/p>\n
She met my eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019ll have to decide that.\u201d<\/p>\n
I left Rachel\u2019s office with copies of the email chain.<\/p>\n
At noon I called Martin.<\/p>\n
He answered warmly.<\/p>\n
\u201cHannah. I was just reading about your waterfront acquisition.\u201d<\/p>\n
The familiarity of his voice hurt more than I expected.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you have time to meet?\u201d<\/p>\n
A pause.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cToday.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another pause.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
We met at a coffee shop near campus.<\/p>\n
Martin looked older than when I had graduated. More gray in his beard. Same dark-framed glasses. Same habit of aligning the sugar packet with the edge of the table even though he drank coffee black.<\/p>\n
He smiled when I sat down.<\/p>\n
Then he saw my expression.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
I placed the email chain on the table.<\/p>\n
His face changed before he touched it.<\/p>\n
That was enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou remember.\u201d<\/p>\n
He removed his glasses.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow long were you planning to never mention it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHannah\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow long?\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked around the caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n
Quietly, he said, \u201cI hoped it would remain irrelevant.\u201d<\/p>\n
I laughed once.<\/p>\n
\u201cInteresting word.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI deserve that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo you?\u201d<\/p>\n
He folded his glasses and placed them beside his cup.<\/p>\n
\u201cI did not know your father was using money intended for you.\u201d<\/p>\n
I said nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need you to believe that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t need to believe anything. I need facts.\u201d<\/p>\n
He nodded.<\/p>\n
Fair.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen did Dad contact you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter meeting Mercer at an industry event.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe recognized my name from your class.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo he told you about my project.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you discussed it with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBroadly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou warned him not to invest money he couldn\u2019t lose.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Richard sounded excited in a way I didn\u2019t trust.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sounded painfully plausible.<\/p>\n
Dad had always become loud when convinced he had found a shortcut no one else saw.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he tell you how much he was investing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEventually.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSeventy-five thousand.\u201d<\/p>\n
I leaned back.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you still didn\u2019t call me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin looked down.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause you were his daughter, not his financial adviser.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was using my analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was using a student report as one input among several.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat email says my work made Mercer look harder.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I mattered enough to influence the investment but not enough to be told.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin winced.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can see why it feels that way.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t tell me how it feels.\u201d<\/p>\n
He nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re right.\u201d<\/p>\n
We sat in silence.<\/p>\n
Around us, students moved between tables carrying laptops and backpacks.<\/p>\n
I could see myself among them years earlier.<\/p>\n
Exhausted.<\/p>\n
Broke.<\/p>\n
Hungry for one person to say I was capable.<\/p>\n
Martin had been that person.<\/p>\n
The betrayal was different from my parents\u2019.<\/p>\n
More complicated.<\/p>\n
Because he had also helped me.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you know they refused to help with my tuition?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you know Grandpa left me forty thousand dollars?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you know Dad later lost the investment?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
That answer hit harder.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout a year after you graduated.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you still didn\u2019t tell me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI did not know it involved you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew he referenced my project.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew he lost money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew I had cut off my parents.\u201d<\/p>\n
His eyes lifted.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never wondered?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought you had family problems. You never discussed them in detail.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was true.<\/p>\n
I had protected my parents even while refusing to speak to them.<\/p>\n
Strange how loyalty could survive after trust.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Dad contact you after the deal failed?\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he want?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was angry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin looked toward the window.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe blamed Mercer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe blamed the city.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
Another pause.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe blamed your analysis.\u201d<\/p>\n
I went completely still.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI told him that was unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cExact words.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHannah.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cExact words.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin closed his eyes briefly.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said you had convinced him the corridor was going to appreciate quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI never told him to invest.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t even know he was investing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI reminded him of that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI told him he had made an adult financial decision and could not assign responsibility to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he ever say this to anyone else?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMom?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are emails?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably.\u201d<\/p>\n
I reached for my phone.<\/p>\n
Martin\u2019s hand lifted.<\/p>\n
\u201cHannah.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s something else.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stopped.<\/p>\n
He looked genuinely ashamed now.<\/p>\n
After the investment collapsed, Dad had contacted him more than once.<\/p>\n
At first to complain.<\/p>\n
Then to ask questions about my job.<\/p>\n
What projects I was working on.<\/p>\n
Whether I was still involved in redevelopment.<\/p>\n
Whether I had invested personally.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought he was trying to understand your career.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you answered?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first.\u201d<\/p>\n
My jaw tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you tell him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVery little.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not an answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI said you were doing well. That your employer trusted you. That you had good instincts.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen did he ask about my first duplex?\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin looked at me.<\/p>\n
So he had.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter he heard you had purchased property.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did he hear?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIndustry gossip travels.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I shook my head.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wasn\u2019t anybody. Nobody was gossiping about my tiny duplex.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin\u2019s silence changed the room.<\/p>\n
\u201cWho told him?\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked uncomfortable.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvan.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cMercer knew?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe had been monitoring sales around the RBM site.\u201d<\/p>\n
That made sense.<\/p>\n
My duplex sat across the street.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much did Dad know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat you bought it. That you renovated it. Later, that you sold.\u201d<\/p>\n
My pulse accelerated.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow later?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSoon after the sale.\u201d<\/p>\n
I sat back slowly.<\/p>\n
Four years.<\/p>\n
My parents had known almost nothing.<\/p>\n
That was what I believed.<\/p>\n
Maybe that was only half true.<\/p>\n
They may not have known my address.<\/p>\n
They may not have called.<\/p>\n
But Dad had been watching parts of my career through other people.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow long did he keep asking about me?\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin rubbed his forehead.<\/p>\n
\u201cOff and on for several years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you never told me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought a father wanting updates about an estranged daughter was sad, not threatening.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked down at the table.<\/p>\n
That was the problem.<\/p>\n
It did sound sad.<\/p>\n
Until money entered the story.<\/p>\n
Until inheritance entered it.<\/p>\n
Until the failed investment.<\/p>\n
Until Dad stood outside my five-million-dollar house and demanded to know how I had paid for it.<\/p>\n
I suddenly remembered his exact expression.<\/p>\n
Not simple surprise.<\/p>\n
Calculation.<\/p>\n
As if he were comparing a number he had expected with one he could see.<\/p>\n
I looked at Martin.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Dad ever ask what my company was worth?\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin went quiet.<\/p>\n
My skin went cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt the entire timeline shift.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew I owned a company?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMom told me they didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know what your mother knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Dad ask?\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin looked miserable.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe asked whether you were wealthy.\u201d<\/p>\n
I nearly laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you tell him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat it was none of my business.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything else?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI said you had built something substantial.\u201d<\/p>\n
The caf\u00e9 suddenly felt too warm.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he ask about specific assets?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cProperties?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot that I remember.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestors?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHouse?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I believed him.<\/p>\n
I also understood something new.<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s shock at the gate had not been shock that I had succeeded.<\/p>\n
He already knew that.<\/p>\n
The house had shown him how much.<\/p>\n
That difference mattered.<\/p>\n
I gathered the papers.<\/p>\n
Martin watched me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at him.<\/p>\n
His apology sounded different from Dad\u2019s.<\/p>\n
No if.<\/p>\n
No defense.<\/p>\n
No demand that I accept it.<\/p>\n
Still, I was not ready to answer.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need distance from you too.\u201d<\/p>\n
His face fell.<\/p>\n
\u201cI understand.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stood.<\/p>\n
At the door, he called my name.<\/p>\n
I turned.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour father asked me one other thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
I waited.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout eighteen months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe asked whether someone like you could hide assets inside a company.\u201d<\/p>\n
Every thought in my head stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy would he ask that?\u201d<\/p>\n
Martin shook his head.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t say.\u201d<\/p>\n
I left without finishing my coffee.<\/p>\n
In the car, I called Rachel.<\/p>\n
She answered immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father has known about my success for years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Then: \u201cTell me everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
I did.<\/p>\n
When I reached Martin\u2019s final statement, Rachel stopped me.<\/p>\n
\u201cRepeat that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe asked whether someone could hide assets inside a company.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEighteen months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rachel was silent for several seconds.<\/p>\n
Then she said, \u201cHannah, do not respond to your father, your mother, or Lily tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I think we\u2019ve been treating the forty thousand as the whole problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
My hand tightened around the steering wheel.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you don\u2019t anymore?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you think the problem is?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
That answer frightened me more than certainty would have.<\/p>\n
Then Rachel added, \u201cBut I want to find out why your father was investigating your assets before Lily ever saw your house.\u201d<\/p>\n
I drove to Rachel\u2019s office before sunrise. She had already warned me not to forward Lily\u2019s photographs to myself until we discussed how they had been obtained. \u201cPossession matters,\u201d she … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9247","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\/9247","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=9247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9282,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions\/9282"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feeleverystory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}