Emily arrived under police escort the next afternoon.<\/p>\n
I had expected tears.<\/p>\n
Instead, she walked through Samuel\u2019s conference-room door carrying a backpack, hugged me hard, and immediately asked to see the evidence.<\/p>\n
She was twenty years old, with Dad\u2019s stubborn chin and Mark\u2019s dark eyes.<\/p>\n
For one painful second, looking at her felt like looking at both sides of the case at once.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want the softened version,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just got off a plane.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI slept on the plane.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEmily.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her voice did not rise.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody has apparently been deciding what I can handle since before Grandpa died. I\u2019m finished with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel looked at me.<\/p>\n
I understood the irony.<\/p>\n
Dad had withheld truth to protect me.<\/p>\n
I had already begun doing the same thing to Emily.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll right.\u201d<\/p>\n
We started with the forged trust documents.<\/p>\n
Then the company.<\/p>\n
Then the promissory note.<\/p>\n
Emily\u2019s face tightened when she saw Mark\u2019s plan to restrict me to a monthly allowance.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was going to give you spending money from Grandpa\u2019s money?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is insane.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then I showed her Dr. Vale\u2019s fabricated evaluation.<\/p>\n
She read in silence.<\/p>\n
The longer she read, the paler she became.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said I hear voices.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never even met this doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said I can\u2019t understand basic financial concepts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel spoke gently.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe report has no legitimate medical basis.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cI took calculus.\u201d<\/p>\n
Despite everything, a small laugh escaped me.<\/p>\n
Dad would have laughed too.<\/p>\n
Emily did not.<\/p>\n
She kept reading.<\/p>\n
Her jaw tightened at the phrase impaired judgment.<\/p>\n
Then she reached the proposed conservatorship.<\/p>\n
Her father\u2019s name appeared as petitioner.<\/p>\n
She pushed the pages away.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to see him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMom.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s in custody.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t owe him a conversation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her eyes met mine.<\/p>\n
\u201cI need to know whether he can lie while looking at me.\u201d<\/p>\n
I understood.<\/p>\n
Not because I approved.<\/p>\n
Because I had asked myself the same question for days.<\/p>\n
Ortiz allowed the meeting under controlled conditions.<\/p>\n
Emily and I sat side by side across the glass.<\/p>\n
Mark entered wearing jail clothing.<\/p>\n
When he saw our daughter, his face changed so quickly I believed his reaction before I could stop myself.<\/p>\n
\u201cEm.\u201d<\/p>\n
She did not answer.<\/p>\n
He sat.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t be here.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat seems to be everybody\u2019s favorite sentence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour mother brought you into this?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI asked.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cClare.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTalk to your daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily placed the fabricated psychiatric report against the glass.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you write this?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you know about it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew Richard wanted a contingency.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat means yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI never approved the lies in the evaluation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were going to use it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily slid the email forward.<\/p>\n
Once Walter is gone, how soon after Clare\u2019s accident can we file?<\/p>\n
Mark closed his eyes.<\/p>\n
She waited.<\/p>\n
When he opened them, she asked again.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you write that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her face did not move.<\/p>\n
\u201cWere you planning for Mom to die?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why did you call it her accident?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Richard used that phrase.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo you repeated it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd asked about timing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily leaned closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad, did you know Grandpa was going to die that night?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark looked at me.<\/p>\n
I said nothing.<\/p>\n
He returned his attention to Emily.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her fingers tightened around the report.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou went to his room twice.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou forged a debt.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t create the original note.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat wasn\u2019t my question.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark swallowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes. I forged signatures.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou disconnected his ventilator.\u201d<\/p>\n
His face changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an accident.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily stared at him.<\/p>\n
That was the lie he had returned to.<\/p>\n
The one he was apparently saving.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought you said Richard told you to pull the tubing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me to create a scare.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA scare.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought the alarm would sound immediately and someone would come.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou silenced it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour grandmother did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily\u2019s voice remained flat.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you left.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark said nothing.<\/p>\n
She asked:<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Grandpa look at you?\u201d<\/p>\n
His eyes flickered.<\/p>\n
That was all.<\/p>\n
Emily saw it.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo he was awake?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou just remembered something.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEm.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Grandpa look at you?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark rubbed both hands together.<\/p>\n
The detective observing behind us became very still.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnly for a second.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n
The official account had placed Dad unconscious throughout the final event.<\/p>\n
Mark had always insisted Dad never responded.<\/p>\n
Emily asked the question again.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he do?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re lying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou always touch your thumb when you lie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark froze.<\/p>\n
I looked down.<\/p>\n
His right thumb was rubbing the side of his left index finger.<\/p>\n
Emily had noticed something about her father I never had.<\/p>\n
She continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Grandpa do?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s breathing changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe opened his eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEmily, stop.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe couldn\u2019t speak.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark looked at me.<\/p>\n
The old reflex appeared.<\/p>\n
He wanted me to rescue him from discomfort.<\/p>\n
I did not.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe reached toward me.\u201d<\/p>\n
My heart began pounding.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe tube.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily shook her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was restrained.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark closed his eyes again.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe reached for my hand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence swallowed the room.<\/p>\n
I heard the detective behind us inhale.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d Emily asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, you do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s mouth trembled.<\/p>\n
Dad had regained consciousness briefly as his oxygen fell.<\/p>\n
He saw Mark standing beside him.<\/p>\n
He reached toward him.<\/p>\n
Not toward the tubing.<\/p>\n
Not toward the alarm.<\/p>\n
Toward Mark.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he know what you did?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI think so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd he reached for you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s composure finally broke.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was trying to pull me closer.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt sick.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe couldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why are you crying?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark pressed both hands against his face.<\/p>\n
When he lowered them, tears streaked his cheeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe whispered.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at him.<\/p>\n
Dad had apologized to the man killing him.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d Mark said quickly. \u201cNot like that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen explain.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said, \u2018I\u2019m sorry about your father.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Everything stopped.<\/p>\n
Twenty-seven years of grievance.<\/p>\n
Richard had convinced Mark that Walter destroyed their family.<\/p>\n
Dad, dying without oxygen, had apparently used one of his final moments to express regret for what happened after Richard vanished.<\/p>\n
Mark looked through the glass.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t know Richard was alive. He thought I grew up without a father because of what happened between them.\u201d<\/p>\n
My chest tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said one more thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t make Clare pay for him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily lowered her eyes.<\/p>\n
Dad understood.<\/p>\n
Even then.<\/p>\n
Mark\u2019s voice cracked.<\/p>\n
\u201cI put the tubing back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ortiz entered the interview room immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou previously said medical staff restored it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark wiped his face.<\/p>\n
\u201cI lied.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou reconnected the ventilator?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know. Maybe after a minute.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMom panicked. She pulled it loose again.\u201d<\/p>\n
My head snapped up.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tried to stop her.\u201d<\/p>\n
This was new.<\/p>\n
Completely new.<\/p>\n
He said after Dad spoke, he reattached the tubing.<\/p>\n
Diane became furious.<\/p>\n
She believed Dad was manipulating him.<\/p>\n
Richard was still on the phone, demanding they finish what they started.<\/p>\n
Mark said he wanted to leave.<\/p>\n
Diane disconnected the tubing again.<\/p>\n
Then she muted the alarm.<\/p>\n
Mark claimed he froze.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you stop her?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were standing beside a dying man.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could have attached it again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could have called a nurse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInstead?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI left.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s oxygen continued falling.<\/p>\n
Rachel returned minutes later.<\/p>\n
By then the damage had been done.<\/p>\n
Ortiz asked why Mark had hidden Diane\u2019s second disconnection.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought if I admitted I reconnected it, they\u2019d know I was there long enough to see Walter wake up.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey already knew you were there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was protecting Mom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily laughed once.<\/p>\n
It sounded nothing like amusement.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were protecting everyone except the people you claimed to love.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark winced.<\/p>\n
She stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m done.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEmily.\u201d<\/p>\n
She stopped.<\/p>\n
He pressed one hand to the glass.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily stared at his palm.<\/p>\n
Then at his face.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mark looked almost relieved.<\/p>\n
She continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s what makes this worse.\u201d<\/p>\n
She walked out.<\/p>\n
I followed.<\/p>\n
In the hallway, her legs gave way.<\/p>\n
I caught her before she hit the wall.<\/p>\n
For several minutes, she cried into my shoulder with the helplessness of a child and the anger of an adult.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish he didn\u2019t love us.\u201d<\/p>\n
I understood.<\/p>\n
If Mark had never loved us, everything would be simple.<\/p>\n
He had used us.<\/p>\n
We had been fooled.<\/p>\n
End of story.<\/p>\n
But people were more terrible than that.<\/p>\n
A person could love his daughter and still prepare to exploit her.<\/p>\n
A husband could love his wife and still imagine her death as financially useful.<\/p>\n
A son could be loved by his father and still let resentment reshape that love into obedience.<\/p>\n
Emotion did not guarantee morality.<\/p>\n
That evening, investigators confronted Diane with Mark\u2019s new account.<\/p>\n
She denied pulling the tubing.<\/p>\n
Then security footage created another problem.<\/p>\n
The camera outside Dad\u2019s room captured Mark exiting at 8:40.<\/p>\n
Diane emerged at 8:42.<\/p>\n
Two full minutes later.<\/p>\n
Her story had placed them leaving together.<\/p>\n
Hospital equipment logs showed the ventilator had briefly resumed normal function at 8:40.<\/p>\n
Then airflow stopped again.<\/p>\n
Mark had told the truth about one thing.<\/p>\n
Someone reconnected Dad\u2019s machine.<\/p>\n
Then someone disconnected it a second time.<\/p>\n
Diane was the only visitor still in the room.<\/p>\n
When Ortiz showed her the timestamps, Diane changed her story.<\/p>\n
She claimed Dad pulled the tubing himself.<\/p>\n
Impossible.<\/p>\n
His restraints prevented his hands from reaching the connection.<\/p>\n
Then she blamed Rachel.<\/p>\n
Rachel had not entered until after Diane left.<\/p>\n
Eventually Diane stopped speaking.<\/p>\n
Her attorney ended the interview.<\/p>\n
The case shifted.<\/p>\n
Mark had still participated in the attack.<\/p>\n
He had disconnected the machine initially.<\/p>\n
He had forged documents.<\/p>\n
He had helped plan fraud.<\/p>\n
He had known about the contemplated accident against me.<\/p>\n
But Dad\u2019s actual fatal deprivation might have resulted from Diane\u2019s second act.<\/p>\n
That distinction would matter at trial.<\/p>\n
It did not absolve Mark.<\/p>\n
But it changed the sequence.<\/p>\n
Samuel called the next morning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s another problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
I was beginning to hate that sentence.<\/p>\n
Richard had filed a civil claim against Dad\u2019s estate from jail.<\/p>\n
I almost laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn what basis?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe claims ownership rights in Hail Mechanical.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe stole from it and faked his death.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s charged with conspiring to kill Dad.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd he wants money?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cQuite a lot of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richard argued that the original partnership dissolution was invalid because he was alive and did not personally sign certain documents.<\/p>\n
If successful, he could complicate the estate for years.<\/p>\n
Samuel did not think he would ultimately win.<\/p>\n
But litigation could delay property transfers and create leverage.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s still trying to exhaust me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s my reading.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad had predicted exactly that strategy.<\/p>\n
Create chaos.<\/p>\n
Apply pressure.<\/p>\n
Wait for Clare to surrender.<\/p>\n
I looked at Emily, who was eating cereal at the kitchen island in Dad\u2019s house.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel waited.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not settling with him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richard\u2019s lawyer requested mediation.<\/p>\n
I refused.<\/p>\n
Then Richard sent a letter.<\/p>\n
Not through Mark.<\/p>\n
Through his attorney.<\/p>\n
Samuel handed it to me unopened.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t have to read it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
I opened it.<\/p>\n
Richard wrote that Walter had poisoned everyone against him.<\/p>\n
He claimed Dad stole his company, destroyed his reputation, and turned Mark away from his real family.<\/p>\n
He said the money in the trust belonged to the Bells.<\/p>\n
Then he made his mistake.<\/p>\n
He referenced a partnership agreement from 1994.<\/p>\n
A clause he believed proved his ownership.<\/p>\n
I brought the letter to Dad\u2019s records cabinet.<\/p>\n
The original agreement was there.<\/p>\n
Richard had remembered the clause correctly.<\/p>\n
He had not remembered the paragraph beneath it.<\/p>\n
Any partner who intentionally misappropriated company funds forfeited his ownership interest upon documented proof of theft.<\/p>\n
Dad had documented everything.<\/p>\n
Bank records.<\/p>\n
Vendor statements.<\/p>\n
Richard\u2019s forged invoices.<\/p>\n
The evidence had been sitting in the cabinet for almost thirty years.<\/p>\n
Samuel smiled for the first time in weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cWalter preserved the exact documents we need.\u201d<\/p>\n
Richard had threatened us with the one contract most likely to destroy his claim.<\/p>\n
The civil case collapsed quickly.<\/p>\n
His attorney withdrew several allegations.<\/p>\n
Then prosecutors offered Diane a deal.<\/p>\n
Testify truthfully against Richard and Mark.<\/p>\n
Plead guilty to charges connected to Dad\u2019s death and financial conspiracy.<\/p>\n
Avoid the most severe possible sentence.<\/p>\n
Diane accepted.<\/p>\n
Melissa cried when she learned.<\/p>\n
Emily did not.<\/p>\n
I felt mostly tired.<\/p>\n
But Diane\u2019s cooperation produced the final missing piece of Richard\u2019s planning.<\/p>\n
There had never been a mysterious mechanic waiting to sabotage my car.<\/p>\n
Richard expected Mark to do it.<\/p>\n
Mark had agreed.<\/p>\n
The garage footage showed him there once, weeks before Dad died.<\/p>\n
He inspected my vehicle\u2019s make and braking system with Richard.<\/p>\n
The later refusal Mark described had happened only after Dad\u2019s final words.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t make Clare pay for him.<\/p>\n
Mark had planned my death.<\/p>\n
Then Dad, while dying because of him, asked him to spare me.<\/p>\n
And Mark changed his mind.<\/p>\n
I sat alone with that truth for a long time.<\/p>\n
Dad had saved my life.<\/p>\n
Not through the trust.<\/p>\n
Not through the lawyer.<\/p>\n
Not through money.<\/p>\n
Through mercy offered to the man who was helping kill him.<\/p>\n
That knowledge broke something in me.<\/p>\n
And repaired something else.<\/p>\n
Emily arrived under police escort the next afternoon. I had expected tears. Instead, she walked through Samuel\u2019s conference-room door carrying a backpack, hugged me hard, and immediately asked to see … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chapter-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}