I remembered the check.<\/p>\n
That was the worst part.<\/p>\n
Five thousand dollars.<\/p>\n
My father had handed it to me three weeks before Thomas and I married.<\/p>\n
He called it a head start.<\/p>\n
My parents were not wealthy. I had protested.<\/p>\n
Dad said he had saved gradually and wanted us to have something solid beneath us.<\/p>\n
Thomas refused at first.<\/p>\n
I persuaded him.<\/p>\n
We used most of the money toward the down payment on a small two-bedroom house with avocado-green appliances and a basement that flooded every spring.<\/p>\n
For forty-two years, I believed that money came from my parents.<\/p>\n
Now Margaret was telling me Frank Bennett supplied it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d Emily asked.<\/p>\n
We were gathered around the blue-house kitchen table.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel looked at me carefully.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Grandpa know Frank?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot that I knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then I remembered something.<\/p>\n
Thomas and I had become engaged quickly by the standards of my parents.<\/p>\n
My father asked questions about Thomas\u2019s family.<\/p>\n
He made telephone calls.<\/p>\n
I assumed he was being protective.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe they spoke.\u201d<\/p>\n
We called Janice.<\/p>\n
She remembered the wedding account.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad was so proud of that money.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he ever say where it came from?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHis savings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you sure?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
I told her.<\/p>\n
Janice swore.<\/p>\n
Then she remembered an argument.<\/p>\n
Our parents had fought shortly before my wedding.<\/p>\n
Mother accused Dad of accepting something he should not have.<\/p>\n
Janice had been nineteen and listening from the hallway.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said, \u2018That man doesn\u2019t give anything without wanting something back.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
My skin prickled.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat man?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI never knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
We searched our parents\u2019 papers.<\/p>\n
Most had been divided after their deaths, but Janice still had boxes in her basement.<\/p>\n
Two days later she found an envelope.<\/p>\n
Frank Bennett.<\/p>\n
Inside was a letter to my father.<\/p>\n
Frank thanked him for encouraging my relationship with Thomas.<\/p>\n
I had to sit down.<\/p>\n
The wording was grotesque in its politeness.<\/p>\n
Frank wrote that Thomas needed a stable woman disconnected from Minnesota.<\/p>\n
He described me as sensible.<\/p>\n
Respectable.<\/p>\n
Suitable.<\/p>\n
Suitable.<\/p>\n
I read that word until it blurred.<\/p>\n
Frank had investigated me.<\/p>\n
My family.<\/p>\n
My job.<\/p>\n
My parents.<\/p>\n
Then he offered my father money ostensibly to help with wedding expenses.<\/p>\n
My father accepted.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe bought me,\u201d I whispered.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d Daniel said immediately.<\/p>\n
I looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe bought influence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat isn\u2019t better.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. But Dad chose you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel looked almost angry.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I watched him love you for forty-one years.\u201d<\/p>\n
The answer silenced me.<\/p>\n
Still, I needed more.<\/p>\n
Janice found another letter.<\/p>\n
This one from my father to Frank.<\/p>\n
He wrote that he would accept the money only as a gift to me and Thomas, with no conditions.<\/p>\n
He explicitly refused to influence my decision about marriage.<\/p>\n
Frank replied that no influence was necessary.<\/p>\n
Thomas had already proposed.<\/p>\n
The money was intended to make the marriage easier.<\/p>\n
That was somehow more disturbing.<\/p>\n
Frank was not creating our relationship.<\/p>\n
He was reinforcing the path he preferred.<\/p>\n
Thomas married me because he loved me.<\/p>\n
Frank quietly rewarded the outcome.<\/p>\n
Two truths.<\/p>\n
Again.<\/p>\n
I felt contaminated by a transaction I never knew existed.<\/p>\n
Maryanne understood before anyone else.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou think our lives were competing branches Frank manipulated.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe did manipulate them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Thomas still loved you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cKnowing and feeling aren\u2019t always synchronized.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
She sat beside me.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor years I thought Frank took Thomas from me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDidn\u2019t he?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe helped.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked toward Emily and Daniel.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut Frank didn\u2019t create Peter. He didn\u2019t create you. He didn\u2019t create Daniel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her voice softened.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis manipulation changed roads. It didn\u2019t manufacture every place those roads went.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was the first thing anyone said that loosened the knot inside me.<\/p>\n
I called Margaret.<\/p>\n
\u201cWas Thomas aware of the payment?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have no evidence he was.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Frank mention it in his confession?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLeonard?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNever heard of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSamuel?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSame.\u201d<\/p>\n
The secret appeared to have died with Frank and my father.<\/p>\n
Another conversation unavailable forever.<\/p>\n
I hated that.<\/p>\n
Then Daniel asked a question.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Dad ever repay Grandpa Frank?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFive thousand dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t know about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe he found out later.\u201d<\/p>\n
We searched Thomas\u2019s old financial files.<\/p>\n
It took hours.<\/p>\n
Then Daniel found a check register from 1991.<\/p>\n
Payment to Frank Bennett Estate.<\/p>\n
Five thousand dollars.<\/p>\n
Memo:<\/p>\n
Unwanted family obligation.<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not before our wedding.<\/p>\n
Not during the first years.<\/p>\n
But eventually.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
The estate records answered.<\/p>\n
When Thomas\u2019s mother died, he reviewed old family papers and discovered Frank\u2019s correspondence with my father.<\/p>\n
That was around the same period he discovered other financial irregularities.<\/p>\n
Thomas repaid the five thousand dollars into Frank\u2019s estate.<\/p>\n
Then directed the executor to donate it to an employee assistance fund.<\/p>\n
He never told me.<\/p>\n
My first instinct was anger.<\/p>\n
Another secret.<\/p>\n
Then I looked at the date.<\/p>\n
1991.<\/p>\n
My father was still alive.<\/p>\n
Thomas had known telling me would expose my father\u2019s choice and damage our relationship.<\/p>\n
So he decided for me.<\/p>\n
Again.<\/p>\n
Daniel saw my face.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe should\u2019ve told you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re saying that now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
I almost laughed.<\/p>\n
The family had developed a new reflex.<\/p>\n
No more romanticizing secrecy.<\/p>\n
But something about Thomas\u2019s response differed from Frank\u2019s.<\/p>\n
He did not use the information to control anyone.<\/p>\n
He returned the money.<\/p>\n
He refused the benefit.<\/p>\n
Then he carried the knowledge alone.<\/p>\n
That was still a choice made for me.<\/p>\n
But it was not the same choice Frank made.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was trying to break the pattern,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
Daniel nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cBadly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut he was trying.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
That evening Daniel brought Frank\u2019s confession, Thomas\u2019s repayment record, and the wedding letters to the unfinished oak table.<\/p>\n
Emily joined him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaking a timeline.\u201d<\/p>\n
She groaned.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou really are his son.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOrganization prevents chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOrganization labels chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cExactly.\u201d<\/p>\n
They arranged everything chronologically.<\/p>\n
1978.<\/p>\n
Thomas and Maryanne buy the blue house.<\/p>\n
1979.<\/p>\n
Emily born.<\/p>\n
Frank pressures Maryanne.<\/p>\n
Letters intercepted.<\/p>\n
1981.<\/p>\n
Frank\u2019s money enters the account controlled by Evelyn.<\/p>\n
Maryanne marries Peter.<\/p>\n
1982.<\/p>\n
Thomas meets me.<\/p>\n
1984.<\/p>\n
Thomas and I marry.<\/p>\n
Frank secretly contributes money through my father.<\/p>\n
1986.<\/p>\n
Frank dictates his confession.<\/p>\n
1988.<\/p>\n
Peter writes his letter.<\/p>\n
1989.<\/p>\n
Thomas discovers the intercepted correspondence and confronts Maryanne.<\/p>\n
1991.<\/p>\n
Thomas discovers Frank\u2019s payment to my father and repays it.<\/p>\n
Then decades of silence.<\/p>\n
Finally the last fifteen years.<\/p>\n
Thomas finds Samuel.<\/p>\n
Learns the financial truth.<\/p>\n
Creates restitution funds.<\/p>\n
Supports Noah\u2019s scholarship program.<\/p>\n
Finds Leonard.<\/p>\n
Discovers the worker-health records.<\/p>\n
Prepares the Blue House meeting.<\/p>\n
Receives his cancer diagnosis.<\/p>\n
Runs out of time.<\/p>\n
Emily stared at the timeline.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe spent the first half of his life inside Frank\u2019s choices.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the second half trying to fix them without telling anyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Daniel tapped the later dates.<\/p>\n
\u201cUntil here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The final year.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe starts changing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas prepared the meeting.<\/p>\n
The codicil.<\/p>\n
The letters.<\/p>\n
The trust.<\/p>\n
The medical-screening fund.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was trying to stop hiding.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWould he actually have told us?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe so.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause he told Claire about the house when he was dying.\u201d<\/p>\n
The hospice nurse.<\/p>\n
Maryanne.<\/p>\n
The promise.<\/p>\n
The blue house.<\/p>\n
Thomas\u2019s failing body had stripped away the careful compartments.<\/p>\n
He was trying to push the truth toward daylight even when he could no longer deliver it himself.<\/p>\n
That did not give him credit for forty years.<\/p>\n
But it mattered.<\/p>\n
The Blue House Family Center paperwork became final in November.<\/p>\n
The property transferred to a charitable trust.<\/p>\n
The remaining North Shore funds were divided between renovation, worker-health screening, unresolved restitution, and the scholarship program.<\/p>\n
Daniel and Emily retained modest personal distributions.<\/p>\n
Neither argued.<\/p>\n
The first major renovation was the dining room.<\/p>\n
Their oak table took six weeks.<\/p>\n
It was enormous.<\/p>\n
Too large for the room, in my opinion.<\/p>\n
Daniel disagreed.<\/p>\n
Emily said that was the point.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo hiding.\u201d<\/p>\n
They carved nothing into it.<\/p>\n
No Bennett name.<\/p>\n
No Cole name.<\/p>\n
No dedication to Thomas.<\/p>\n
Just a table.<\/p>\n
Noah helped develop the first family-grief program with licensed supervisors.<\/p>\n
He was careful about professional boundaries.<\/p>\n
Maryanne volunteered in the garden.<\/p>\n
I organized books.<\/p>\n
Daniel rebuilt the porch.<\/p>\n
Emily painted the upstairs bedroom.<\/p>\n
Not blue.<\/p>\n
She chose a warm neutral shade and refused to discuss the symbolism.<\/p>\n
Winter arrived.<\/p>\n
Snow settled over Duluth.<\/p>\n
The house looked almost exactly like the photograph from Thomas\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n
One afternoon Emily found me alone upstairs.<\/p>\n
I was holding the old photograph.<\/p>\n
Thomas.<\/p>\n
Maryanne.<\/p>\n
Baby Emily.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou okay?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLiar.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m learning.\u201d<\/p>\n
She sat beside me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I forgive him.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t have to decide.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why now?\u201d<\/p>\n
She thought.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I finally figured out what forgiveness means to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
I waited.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean he was right.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean I would\u2019ve accepted his explanation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m grateful he loved me from a distance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
She touched the photograph.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means I don\u2019t want the first forty-seven years of my life arguing with the next forty-seven.\u201d<\/p>\n
I smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds useful.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t make it inspirational.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t dare.\u201d<\/p>\n
She smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo I forgive him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Thomas\u2019s young face.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m still married to him in my head.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means some mornings I forgive him before breakfast and become furious again by lunch.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds exhausting.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMarriage often was.\u201d<\/p>\n
We sat quietly.<\/p>\n
Then Emily asked, \u201cWould you marry him again?\u201d<\/p>\n
That question had haunted me.<\/p>\n
Now the answer came easily.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked surprised.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven knowing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d make him tell me sooner.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s cheating.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFine.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes. Even knowing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause the truth doesn\u2019t erase Daniel.\u201d<\/p>\n
She nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t erase my marriage. It doesn\u2019t erase his mistakes either.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked toward the window.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not choosing between the true Thomas and the husband I loved. They\u2019re the same man.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emily leaned against the wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s probably what Peter meant.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout fathers not being competitors?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lives did not need to compete either.<\/p>\n
The life Thomas might have lived with Maryanne.<\/p>\n
The life he lived with me.<\/p>\n
Emily\u2019s life with Peter.<\/p>\n
Daniel\u2019s life with Thomas.<\/p>\n
All were real.<\/p>\n
The following week, Daniel called from Illinois.<\/p>\n
His medical screening had returned.<\/p>\n
The hereditary cardiac mutation Thomas carried was present in him.<\/p>\n
My stomach dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you sick?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDaniel.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMom, listen. I\u2019m not sick.\u201d<\/p>\n
His cardiologist recommended monitoring.<\/p>\n
Lifestyle changes.<\/p>\n
Periodic testing.<\/p>\n
No immediate crisis.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about Emily?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe tested negative.\u201d<\/p>\n
Relief came so quickly I had to sit down.<\/p>\n
\u201cNoah?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNegative too.\u201d<\/p>\n
Thomas\u2019s genetic discovery had mattered.<\/p>\n
His delay had been dangerous in principle, but this time we had learned in time.<\/p>\n
Daniel sounded calm.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m glad Dad had the test.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo am I.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I\u2019m glad you found it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo am I.\u201d<\/p>\n
A week later, he came to Duluth for the center\u2019s opening.<\/p>\n
Before the guests arrived, Daniel stood alone in the basement workshop.<\/p>\n
I found him holding Thomas\u2019s carpenter\u2019s pencil.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe one from Leonard?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He placed it on the workbench.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re leaving it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDad left enough things with us.\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked around.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this one belongs here.\u201d<\/p>\n
The opening was small.<\/p>\n
No reporters.<\/p>\n
No grand ceremony.<\/p>\n
Former Bennett employees and several descendants attended.<\/p>\n
Some declined.<\/p>\n
Robert Hayes came.<\/p>\n
He shook Daniel\u2019s hand but refused photographs.<\/p>\n
Margaret spoke briefly about the screening program.<\/p>\n
Noah explained the family-support services.<\/p>\n
Emily said almost nothing.<\/p>\n
Then she surprised us.<\/p>\n
She walked to the oak table.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s one rule in this house.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo secret boxes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Laughter moved through the room.<\/p>\n
Those of us who understood laughed hardest.<\/p>\n
She continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis place exists because too many people believed difficult truths became safer when hidden.\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked toward Maryanne.<\/p>\n
Then Daniel.<\/p>\n
Then me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re trying something different.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was all.<\/p>\n
No speech about healing.<\/p>\n
No heroic version of Thomas.<\/p>\n
Accurate.<\/p>\n
Afterward, Maryanne and I stood on the porch.<\/p>\n
Snow had begun falling.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe would have hated making a speech,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe would have hidden in the basement.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n
We laughed.<\/p>\n
Then a car pulled up.<\/p>\n
Margaret stepped out.<\/p>\n
Her expression was serious.<\/p>\n
I felt my stomach tighten automatically.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
She frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo more envelopes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m afraid there is one.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMargaret.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThis one isn\u2019t from Thomas.\u201d<\/p>\n
She held out a thin envelope.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt arrived at my office yesterday.\u201d<\/p>\n
The handwriting was unfamiliar.<\/p>\n
The return address belonged to a nursing facility in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n
The sender\u2019s name:<\/p>\n
Helen Shaw.<\/p>\n
Leonard\u2019s younger sister.<\/p>\n
I opened it.<\/p>\n
Helen wrote that Leonard had told her we found Frank\u2019s confession.<\/p>\n
She believed one part remained missing.<\/p>\n
Frank had not acted alone.<\/p>\n
Someone else had helped him intercept Maryanne and Thomas\u2019s letters.<\/p>\n
Someone close enough to Thomas to know exactly where he mailed them.<\/p>\n
At the bottom Helen wrote the name.<\/p>\n
I read it twice.<\/p>\n
Then looked toward Maryanne.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d she asked.<\/p>\n
I could barely say it.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour father.\u201d<\/p>\n
Maryanne\u2019s face emptied.<\/p>\n
According to Helen Shaw, George Cole had helped Frank Bennett separate his own daughter from Thomas.<\/p>\n
And if Helen was right, the final secret had never belonged to the Bennetts alone.<\/p>\n
I remembered the check. That was the worst part. Five thousand dollars. My father had handed it to me three weeks before Thomas and I married. He called it a … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2659","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\/2659","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=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2675,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions\/2675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}