I drove to my parents\u2019 house without calling first.<\/p>\n
Mercer knew where I was going.<\/p>\n
Evelyn told me not to discuss active legal strategy.<\/p>\n
I promised.<\/p>\n
I did not promise to remain calm.<\/p>\n
Dad opened the door.<\/p>\n
The second he saw my face, he knew.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you ever sign my name?\u201d<\/p>\n
His expression emptied.<\/p>\n
Mom appeared behind him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
I stepped inside.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad.\u201d<\/p>\n
He closed the door.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you?\u201d<\/p>\n
He looked at Mom.<\/p>\n
Not me.<\/p>\n
That was enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow many times?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce.\u201d<\/p>\n
The answer felt like a physical blow.<\/p>\n
Mom stared at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cRobert.\u201d<\/p>\n
He sat down slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou didn\u2019t know?\u201d<\/p>\n
She shook her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you sign?\u201d<\/p>\n
I remained standing.<\/p>\n
Dad looked toward me.<\/p>\n
\u201cA consent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe original Blue Ridge arrangement.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou signed my name.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought I was authorizing repayment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn my name.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew I had not agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom covered her mouth.<\/p>\n
I felt strangely calm.<\/p>\n
Maybe there was a limit to shock.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did the document say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t remember exactly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cConvenient.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI deserve that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou deserve more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
There it was again.<\/p>\n
But this time I did not react to the phrase.<\/p>\n
I wanted facts.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSix years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore or after Blue Ridge was formed?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho gave you the document?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMartin.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDaniel there?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBrooke?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe watched you sign my name?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd said nothing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was angry.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not an explanation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Martin tell you it was legal?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said because I had provided money to you and was documenting family repayment, I could sign as your representative.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWere you my legal representative?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPower of attorney?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOfficer of Holt Ridge?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I laughed softly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s eyes filled.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was the piece I had been circling for weeks.<\/p>\n
My parents had been manipulated.<\/p>\n
True.<\/p>\n
They had been careless.<\/p>\n
True.<\/p>\n
They had wanted peace.<\/p>\n
True.<\/p>\n
But at least once, Dad knowingly crossed the line.<\/p>\n
Not because he understood the fraud.<\/p>\n
Not because he intended to steal.<\/p>\n
Because he decided my consent was inconvenient.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would have said no.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why you signed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou thought avoiding my anger mattered more than whether I agreed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom sat beside him but did not touch him.<\/p>\n
For once, she did not tell me to understand his intention.<\/p>\n
\u201cWas the signature good?\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad looked confused.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you copy mine?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMartin showed me an old check.\u201d<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen it was deliberate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou practiced?\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad\u2019s silence answered.<\/p>\n
I looked away.<\/p>\n
Not a quick mistake.<\/p>\n
Not a panicked scribble.<\/p>\n
He had copied my signature onto a document I was not supposed to know existed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you think would happen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat Brooke would be repaid.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe had already been repaid.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEventually she was.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you still didn\u2019t tell me about this document.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause by then everything had gotten complicated.\u201d<\/p>\n
I laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cComplicated is what secrecy becomes when it survives long enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mom looked at me sharply.<\/p>\n
I did not know where the sentence came from.<\/p>\n
It was true anyway.<\/p>\n
Dad nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I sat across from him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened after you signed?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMartin took the document.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you keep a copy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you ask?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you ever see it again?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAbout two years later.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMartin\u2019s office.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat changed?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere were attachments.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat attachments?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSchedules. Values. Something about future proceeds.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you read them?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot all.\u201d<\/p>\n
I pressed my hand against my forehead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause by then I knew I had made a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd your solution to realizing you made a mistake was not to tell me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was to avoid reading more.\u201d<\/p>\n
His face collapsed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was Dad.<\/p>\n
Not evil.<\/p>\n
Not stupid.<\/p>\n
Avoidant.<\/p>\n
He let discomfort choose for him.<\/p>\n
Again and again.<\/p>\n
And everyone around him paid the interest.<\/p>\n
I called Mercer.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad admits signing my name.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dad flinched but did not stop me.<\/p>\n
Mercer\u2019s voice changed immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn what?\u201d<\/p>\n
I told him.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill he make a statement?\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Dad.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes,\u201d he said before I asked.<\/p>\n
Mercer arranged it that afternoon.<\/p>\n
Mom came too.<\/p>\n
For the first time, my parents entered the investigation not primarily as confused witnesses, but as people acknowledging their own conduct.<\/p>\n
Dad gave a full statement.<\/p>\n
He described the check Martin used as a signature model.<\/p>\n
The meeting.<\/p>\n
Brooke\u2019s presence.<\/p>\n
The explanation.<\/p>\n
His deliberate choice.<\/p>\n
Mom provided everything she remembered about later forms.<\/p>\n
No minimization.<\/p>\n
No family language.<\/p>\n
No excuses.<\/p>\n
It was painful to watch.<\/p>\n
It also felt clean.<\/p>\n
Afterward, Mercer spoke to me privately.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis helps prove the original document was unauthorized.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt also implicates Dad.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens to him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat depends on prosecutors.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo not soften anything because he\u2019s my father.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mercer studied me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then I surprised myself.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut context matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was also manipulated.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Both could be true.<\/p>\n
That was perhaps the hardest thing I had learned.<\/p>\n
Brooke could be exploited and guilty.<\/p>\n
Dad could love me and betray me.<\/p>\n
Mom could mean well and repeatedly erase me.<\/p>\n
Martin could believe he was resolving a dispute and still build a fraud machine.<\/p>\n
Daniel could recognize real family wounds and weaponize them.<\/p>\n
Simple villains would have been easier.<\/p>\n
Real people rarely cooperated.<\/p>\n
The original document surfaced the next day.<\/p>\n
Martin\u2019s attorney produced it after prosecutors confronted him with Dad\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n
My signature was there.<\/p>\n
Badly copied.<\/p>\n
Underneath it, a line said:<\/p>\n
Acknowledged by family representative Robert Hale.<\/p>\n
Martin had signed as witness.<\/p>\n
The document purported to give Blue Ridge rights to repayment from future ventures arising from the Oakridge project.<\/p>\n
Future ventures.<\/p>\n
The phrase became the fictional bridge to Holt Ridge.<\/p>\n
Evelyn read it twice.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis document is terrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn what sense?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn nearly every sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLegally?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is not good that your father signed your name.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut as a foundation for ownership claims over Holt Ridge, it is weak.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow weak?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVery.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCan Blue Ridge still argue?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnyone can argue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s that lawyer answer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou hired me for lawyer answers.\u201d<\/p>\n
I almost smiled.<\/p>\n
She pointed at a clause.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt doesn\u2019t convey equity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen how did Martin turn it into that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRepeated references.\u201d<\/p>\n
The crooked tower again.<\/p>\n
One weak paper referenced by another.<\/p>\n
Then another.<\/p>\n
Eventually outsiders assumed the foundation must be real because so many later records treated it as real.<\/p>\n
The danger of paperwork was not that every document convinced everyone.<\/p>\n
It was that quantity created familiarity.<\/p>\n
Familiarity became presumed legitimacy.<\/p>\n
That afternoon, the lender associated with my fraudulent house loan formally disclaimed enforcement pending investigation.<\/p>\n
Two investors who had backed Blue Ridge began cooperating.<\/p>\n
One claimed Martin told them I had entered a confidential family settlement years earlier.<\/p>\n
Another believed Blue Ridge was partly mine.<\/p>\n
When shown my actual corporate records, both looked horrified.<\/p>\n
The false story was collapsing.<\/p>\n
Holt Ridge stabilized with it.<\/p>\n
A lender withdrew its additional documentation demand.<\/p>\n
Two vendors restored normal terms.<\/p>\n
Our biggest investor sent a one-line message.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re staying.<\/p>\n
I read it three times.<\/p>\n
Not because I doubted the words.<\/p>\n
Because after weeks of watching trust become evidence against me, simple trust felt almost foreign.<\/p>\n
Megan found me in my office.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou okay?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She raised an eyebrow.<\/p>\n
I smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cMostly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBetter.\u201d<\/p>\n
She sat.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens with your dad?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou angry?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDone with him?\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked through the glass wall at people working.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat may be the first healthy use of those words this month.\u201d<\/p>\n
I laughed.<\/p>\n
She was right.<\/p>\n
Not every uncertainty required immediate resolution.<\/p>\n
That evening, Brooke asked to see me again.<\/p>\n
I almost refused.<\/p>\n
Then Mercer said she had signed a cooperation agreement.<\/p>\n
Not immunity.<\/p>\n
Not escape.<\/p>\n
Cooperation.<\/p>\n
She had agreed to plead to charges prosecutors were finalizing in exchange for consideration based on truthful assistance and restitution efforts.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat charges?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFraud-related offenses. Identity theft. Conspiracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPrison?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossible.\u201d<\/p>\n
I nodded.<\/p>\n
Consequences.<\/p>\n
Real ones.<\/p>\n
I met her.<\/p>\n
She looked smaller somehow.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know Dad admitted it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI should have stopped him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was happy he was doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n
I said nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought finally somebody was choosing me over you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sentence surprised me.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is what you wanted?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt twenty-two?\u201d<\/p>\n
She nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I considered that.<\/p>\n
Dad had spent decades choosing whichever daughter seemed more distressed.<\/p>\n
On that day, for once, he made a secret decision that financially helped me.<\/p>\n
But because he did it using Brooke\u2019s money and without my consent, both of us lost.<\/p>\n
She felt sacrificed.<\/p>\n
I was deprived of choice.<\/p>\n
Then he tried to repair it by choosing her secretly.<\/p>\n
Every adjustment created a new imbalance.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know what\u2019s strange?\u201d Brooke said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought the money was the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was?\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted proof that somebody would risk upsetting you for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
I almost laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou got that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRepeatedly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her eyes filled.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it still didn\u2019t fix anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
We sat quietly.<\/p>\n
Then she said, \u201cDaniel knew.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cKnew what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat I wanted that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
He had not invented her wound.<\/p>\n
He monetized it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he tell you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat people reveal who they love by who they\u2019re willing to disappoint.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought of Dad.<\/p>\n
You were easier to disappoint.<\/p>\n
A dangerous sentence because it contained enough truth to feel complete.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut that isn\u2019t love,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n
Brooke looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cConflict management.\u201d<\/p>\n
She gave a small, broken laugh.<\/p>\n
\u201cDad spent thirty years managing us.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd lost both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
I did not answer.<\/p>\n
Because I was not ready to decide whether he had.<\/p>\n
Before I left, Brooke said, \u201cI\u2019m going to sell the building.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou may not control it long enough.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they let me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor restitution?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo Mom and Dad?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLinda?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHolt Ridge?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf I owe it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou do.\u201d<\/p>\n
She nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I believed she meant it.<\/p>\n
Meaning it did not erase the damage.<\/p>\n
That mattered too.<\/p>\n
At home that night, I walked through the greenhouse.<\/p>\n
The cedar bench where Brooke had hidden the drive was still partially disassembled from the search.<\/p>\n
I ran my hand across the wood.<\/p>\n
The drive had nearly become another secret.<\/p>\n
Instead, it became evidence.<\/p>\n
That difference seemed important.<\/p>\n
Secrets protected stories.<\/p>\n
Evidence tested them.<\/p>\n
My phone rang.<\/p>\n
Evelyn.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lien hearing is moving faster.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBlue Ridge\u2019s counsel filed notice.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat notice?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are withdrawing the house claim.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cCompletely?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAgainst the property, yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMartin\u2019s cooperation. Dad\u2019s admission. Brooke\u2019s records. Pick one.\u201d<\/p>\n
I sat on the greenhouse bench.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s over?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lien fight is.\u201d<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
My house was mine.<\/p>\n
No January first enforcement.<\/p>\n
No fake default.<\/p>\n
No foreclosure threat.<\/p>\n
Outside, the mountains were almost invisible in the dark.<\/p>\n
\u201cMiranda?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m here.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s one more piece.\u201d<\/p>\n
I laughed softly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou people need a different phrase.\u201d<\/p>\n
Evelyn ignored me.<\/p>\n
\u201cBlue Ridge is also disclaiming any ownership interest in Holt Ridge.\u201d<\/p>\n
I went still.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The central lie had finally broken.<\/p>\n
But as relief came, another feeling arrived beside it.<\/p>\n
Grief.<\/p>\n
Six years.<\/p>\n
Hundreds of thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n
A family torn open.<\/p>\n
A company nearly destabilized.<\/p>\n
All to enforce a claim that had never existed.<\/p>\n
I looked toward the house.<\/p>\n
For years, everyone had insisted silence would keep the family intact.<\/p>\n
The truth had been ugly.<\/p>\n
But it was the first thing that actually stopped the damage.<\/p>\n
I drove to my parents\u2019 house without calling first. Mercer knew where I was going. Evelyn told me not to discuss active legal strategy. I promised. I did not promise … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6501","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\/6501","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=6501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6521,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6501\/revisions\/6521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}