Rebecca called two mornings later with news about Adrian Cole.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has agreed to provide a sworn statement.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stopped trimming the top of a vanilla cake layer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHis attorney appears to believe cooperation is in his interest.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds like he is scared.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means his attorney understands the circumstances are serious.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca\u2019s wording remained precise even when the obvious interpretation sat between us.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat is he admitting?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have only a summary.\u201d<\/p>\n
I put down the serrated knife.<\/p>\n
\u201cTell me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe twelve-thousand-dollar payment was a consulting fee promised by Victor if the Northfield purchase closed.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor arranging the sale?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAccording to Adrian, for helping organize the financial structure around Grant\u2019s obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat sounds like arranging the sale.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt may include more than that.\u201d<\/p>\n
I leaned against the counter.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he actually do?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe helped Grant calculate available equity. He reviewed property records. He prepared financial summaries for Victor. And he drafted the guarantee.\u201d<\/p>\n
The forged guarantee.<\/p>\n
The document that treated my retirement, business, and future marital recovery as available collateral.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he know my signature was forged?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHis statement says he suspected Grant might reuse an electronic signature but claims he did not confirm that it occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at the cake.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat email said signature issue needs cleaner handling.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does he say that meant?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat Grant had previously supplied electronically pasted signatures and Adrian believed future documents should be signed through verified electronic-signature software.\u201d<\/p>\n
I laughed quietly.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo his defense is that he knew the signature process was suspicious, but he wanted the next suspicious signature handled more professionally.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca did not answer directly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat characterization may be disputed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n
I wiped frosting from my thumb.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about \u2018wife likely unaware\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe says Grant told him you did not participate in financial decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhich Adrian already knew was questionable because he asked Grant about my signature during the refinance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he contact me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEver?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot that we know.\u201d<\/p>\n
The facts arranged themselves without help.<\/p>\n
Adrian had questions.<\/p>\n
Grant gave answers.<\/p>\n
Adrian chose the answers that kept transactions moving.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens to him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is not something I can predict.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes his statement help me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt supports your position that significant transactions involving the house and purported spousal consent occurred without direct communication with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sounded almost absurdly mild.<\/p>\n
But law preferred exactness over outrage.<\/p>\n
I was beginning to understand the usefulness of that.<\/p>\n
Rebecca continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is more about the forty-thousand-dollar contingency reserve.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cL BUS.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot money already available.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat then?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA projected source if the house sale failed to produce enough cash.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy business credit.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is what Adrian says.\u201d<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
The notebook entry was now explained.<\/p>\n
L BUS \u2014 40K potential.<\/p>\n
Grant had planned to borrow forty thousand in my business name if the sale proceeds could not cover Victor.<\/p>\n
Not an impulsive application.<\/p>\n
A contingency.<\/p>\n
A backup line in a larger plan.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat was the twenty-five?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cL \u2014 25K?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAdrian says it represented a projected contribution from you personally.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened again.<\/p>\n
\u201cBased on what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGrant told them you had savings.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI had about twenty-five thousand in personal savings before I put six thousand into the kitchen.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca paused.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat may be where the number came from.\u201d<\/p>\n
I sat down.<\/p>\n
Grant had remembered.<\/p>\n
Not because he wanted to protect the savings.<\/p>\n
Because he had catalogued them.<\/p>\n
House.<\/p>\n
Business.<\/p>\n
Retirement.<\/p>\n
Savings.<\/p>\n
Family.<\/p>\n
Everything surrounding him had been converted into possible repayment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens with Victor?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHis attorney is contesting Adrian\u2019s version.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVictor claims Adrian proposed the financial structure independently.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Adrian claims Victor directed it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re blaming each other.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn part.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the first time, that did not frighten me.<\/p>\n
Let them.<\/p>\n
Neither man needed me to decide the truth.<\/p>\n
Documents existed.<\/p>\n
Emails existed.<\/p>\n
Payments existed.<\/p>\n
Investigators could compare them.<\/p>\n
My role was no longer to decode everyone else\u2019s intentions.<\/p>\n
At noon, I delivered the cake.<\/p>\n
The customer met me at a garden center where her mother\u2019s birthday party was being held.<\/p>\n
She had ordered white frosting with small lavender flowers.<\/p>\n
When she lifted the box lid, she smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is exactly what I pictured.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sentence stayed with me as I drove back.<\/p>\n
Exactly what I pictured.<\/p>\n
Marriage had not been like that.<\/p>\n
I had pictured one thing and lived inside another.<\/p>\n
But maybe that did not mean every good memory was false.<\/p>\n
It meant the picture was incomplete.<\/p>\n
That afternoon, Rebecca sent me a draft of temporary financial orders.<\/p>\n
They restricted both Grant and me from transferring major marital assets without notice.<\/p>\n
They preserved disputed property.<\/p>\n
They prohibited new borrowing using the other spouse\u2019s identity or property.<\/p>\n
The last provision felt almost ridiculous.<\/p>\n
Marriage law apparently needed to say, formally, do not borrow in your wife\u2019s name without permission.<\/p>\n
I signed where Rebecca instructed.<\/p>\n
This time, before signing, I read every page.<\/p>\n
Slowly.<\/p>\n
Every sentence.<\/p>\n
Every definition.<\/p>\n
Every amount.<\/p>\n
When I finished, I laughed quietly.<\/p>\n
Mara looked up from the sofa.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI used to sign things Grant put in front of me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout reading?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n
She made a face.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo judgment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere should be a little.\u201d<\/p>\n
She smiled.<\/p>\n
\u201cFine. A little.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at my signature on the page.<\/p>\n
Different from the copied version Grant had reused.<\/p>\n
Alive.<\/p>\n
Slightly uneven.<\/p>\n
Mine.<\/p>\n
The next morning, Grant\u2019s attorney filed his response to the divorce petition.<\/p>\n
Rebecca called before sending it.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe does not contest separation.\u201d<\/p>\n
I waited.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe accepts the temporary financial restrictions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe still agrees the house is marital?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about debt?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe maintains that gambling-related debts and fraudulent obligations should be allocated to him, subject to court approval and creditor rights.\u201d<\/p>\n
I understood the qualification now.<\/p>\n
Grant could agree between us that a debt belonged to him.<\/p>\n
That did not automatically prevent an outside creditor from trying to collect according to its documents.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about the personal loan in my name?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe admits obtaining it without your authorization.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe admitted that in writing?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Something in my chest loosened.<\/p>\n
Not forgiveness.<\/p>\n
Not relief exactly.<\/p>\n
But a contested fact had become uncontested.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd the business application?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe admits submitting that as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe guarantee?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe admits your signature was not authorized.\u201d<\/p>\n
I sat down.<\/p>\n
For weeks I had lived with the fear that Grant would retreat into denial once attorneys became involved.<\/p>\n
Instead, at least on paper, he was telling the truth.<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes that help the fraud investigations?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt can.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about Adrian and Victor?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is separate.\u201d<\/p>\n
Always separate.<\/p>\n
I was learning that one disaster could contain multiple legal worlds.<\/p>\n
Divorce.<\/p>\n
Property.<\/p>\n
Fraud.<\/p>\n
Credit.<\/p>\n
Private lending.<\/p>\n
Possible professional misconduct.<\/p>\n
They overlapped without becoming the same thing.<\/p>\n
At three, Detective Ortiz called.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe located evidence of payment from Grant to Victor after the refinance.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSixty-six thousand dollars over several transfers and cash withdrawals.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGrant told me around seventy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is broadly consistent.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo the ninety-six-thousand refinance mostly paid Victor.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPartly Victor. Some credit cards. Some other obligations.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then he borrowed from Victor again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow soon?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSix weeks later, consistent with what Grant told you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The confirmation hurt differently than discovering a lie.<\/p>\n
Now Grant\u2019s treatment confession matched the records.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about the six thousand reimbursement?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestigators documented it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes anyone care that it was my money?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The directness surprised me.<\/p>\n
Ortiz continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut our role is not to determine marital reimbursement. Rebecca handles that portion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere is another reason I called.\u201d<\/p>\n
I waited.<\/p>\n
\u201cVictor has surrendered the original guarantee through counsel.\u201d<\/p>\n
My heartbeat increased.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe original?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith my forged signature?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happens to it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is preserved as evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he try to destroy it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy surrender it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHis attorney may have concluded retaining it created more risk than benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes Victor admit knowing it was forged?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat he believed Grant had authority to obtain your electronic signature.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at the wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven after Adrian wrote wife likely unaware?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVictor says he understood that to mean you were not involved in negotiations, not that you had not consented.\u201d<\/p>\n
Possible.<\/p>\n
Convenient.<\/p>\n
Maybe true.<\/p>\n
Investigators would decide what evidence supported.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill he ever contact me again?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have told his counsel all communication should go through counsel or investigators.\u201d<\/p>\n
I exhaled.<\/p>\n
That sentence gave me more relief than I expected.<\/p>\n
No more unknown number.<\/p>\n
No more wondering if customers would receive calls.<\/p>\n
No more waiting for a stranger to claim I owed money.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat about my business?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo evidence currently shows Victor contacted customers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd my retirement?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo withdrawal occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n
My life had come frighteningly close to several disasters that never fully happened.<\/p>\n
That did not make the attempt harmless.<\/p>\n
But it mattered.<\/p>\n
That evening, Dr. Park called.<\/p>\n
Grant had completed his initial residential phase.<\/p>\n
He planned to transition into an intensive outpatient program and recovery meetings.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs he going home?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo a sober-living arrangement initially.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot the house?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt immediate relief.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he choose that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith clinical recommendation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dr. Park paused.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrant asked whether you would accept a letter.\u201d<\/p>\n
I almost said no.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind of letter?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo request to reconcile. No financial discussion. An accountability letter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHave you read it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes, with his permission.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes it blame addiction?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes it ask me to forgive him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I considered.<\/p>\n
\u201cSend it through Rebecca.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is reasonable.\u201d<\/p>\n
The letter arrived the next day.<\/p>\n
I did not open it immediately.<\/p>\n
I had three orders to finish.<\/p>\n
For once, Grant waited.<\/p>\n
His words could wait too.<\/p>\n
I read it after dinner.<\/p>\n
Laurel,<\/p>\n
I have spent most of treatment trying to understand the difference between explaining what I did and excusing it.<\/p>\n
Gambling addiction explains why I kept chasing losses. It does not explain away the decisions I made to involve you without consent.<\/p>\n
I used your trust as access.<\/p>\n
I used your work as proof of income when it benefited me and dismissed your work when I wanted control.<\/p>\n
I lied about the house.<\/p>\n
I forged your signature.<\/p>\n
I took money from accounts you funded.<\/p>\n
I made plans around your savings, your business, your retirement, and your family without asking you.<\/p>\n
The grocery argument was deliberate.<\/p>\n
I wanted you angry enough to create the financial separation I could point to later.<\/p>\n
That may be the part I am most ashamed to write because I watched you believe you were defending yourself when I had manipulated the situation.<\/p>\n
You do not owe me forgiveness.<\/p>\n
You do not owe me marriage.<\/p>\n
You do not owe me silence.<\/p>\n
I am working with my attorney to accept responsibility for the debts I created and to cooperate with the investigations.<\/p>\n
If the house has to be sold eventually, I will not claim that you have no interest in it.<\/p>\n
Dad was right.<\/p>\n
I should have put your name on it years ago.<\/p>\n
I am sorry I waited until losing you to say that.<\/p>\n
Grant<\/p>\n
I read the letter once.<\/p>\n
Then again.<\/p>\n
I cried after the second reading.<\/p>\n
Not because I wanted him back.<\/p>\n
Because this was the first apology that named what happened without asking me to make him feel better.<\/p>\n
Mara found me sitting at the table.<\/p>\n
She did not ask whether the letter changed my mind.<\/p>\n
She simply brought me tissues and sat down.<\/p>\n
After a while, I said, \u201cHe finally understands some of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes that help?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDoes it fix anything?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
She nodded.<\/p>\n
Both could be true.<\/p>\n
The following week, the court entered temporary orders.<\/p>\n
The house remained protected.<\/p>\n
Major assets could not be moved.<\/p>\n
Grant was responsible for preserving records and disclosing debts.<\/p>\n
My business account remained under my control.<\/p>\n
For the first time since I discovered the sale contract, the financial ground beneath me stopped shifting daily.<\/p>\n
Not stable.<\/p>\n
But governed.<\/p>\n
There was a difference.<\/p>\n
Then Rebecca called with the first real estimate of the house.<\/p>\n
An independent appraisal valued it at four hundred sixty-eight thousand dollars.<\/p>\n
I sat down.<\/p>\n
\u201cVictor\u2019s first draft was four fifty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe signed deal was four twenty.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen three ninety-two.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I understood the scale now.<\/p>\n
Grant had been prepared to let the house go for seventy-six thousand dollars below the appraised value just to obtain cash fast enough.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean for us?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need updated loan payoffs and lien resolution before calculating net equity.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much is left on the mortgage and refinance together?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cApproximately three hundred forty thousand, depending on payoff dates.\u201d<\/p>\n
I did the subtraction.<\/p>\n
\u201cAround one hundred twenty-eight thousand before fees.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRoughly.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was far less than the one hundred sixty Grant had written in his notebook.<\/p>\n
But it was not nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cVictor\u2019s forty-eight-thousand lien?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDisputed as part of the broader issues. We are working through it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it stands, equity drops.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at the appraisal.<\/p>\n
The house was still an asset.<\/p>\n
But not the magical rescue Grant had imagined.<\/p>\n
Not after debt.<\/p>\n
Not after fees.<\/p>\n
Not after lies.<\/p>\n
Rebecca said, \u201cThere is another possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf neither of you can responsibly keep the property, an eventual court-supervised sale may be the cleanest option.\u201d<\/p>\n
The idea hurt.<\/p>\n
That house held seven years.<\/p>\n
Howard\u2019s gift.<\/p>\n
My kitchen.<\/p>\n
Birthdays.<\/p>\n
Fights.<\/p>\n
Ordinary Tuesdays.<\/p>\n
The rosemary I planted after Grant had already promised the house to somebody else.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo I have to decide now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen not now.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFine.\u201d<\/p>\n
That evening, I drove past the house for the first time since leaving.<\/p>\n
I did not stop.<\/p>\n
Lights were off.<\/p>\n
The porch looked smaller than I remembered.<\/p>\n
For years I thought security meant keeping that address.<\/p>\n
Now I understood that a house could belong to you legally, financially, emotionally, and still fail to make you safe.<\/p>\n
I kept driving.<\/p>\n
My phone buzzed at the next red light.<\/p>\n
A message from Rebecca.<\/p>\n
Victor\u2019s lien had been withdrawn.<\/p>\n
I pulled into a parking lot before opening the full email.<\/p>\n
Northfield\u2019s counsel had agreed to release the forty-eight-thousand-dollar lien as part of Victor\u2019s cooperation and withdrawal from the failed transaction, without resolving every separate dispute between Victor and Grant.<\/p>\n
I read the sentence twice.<\/p>\n
Forty-eight thousand.<\/p>\n
Gone from the house.<\/p>\n
Not from Grant\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
Not from the investigation.<\/p>\n
But no longer attached to the property.<\/p>\n
I leaned back against the headrest.<\/p>\n
For the first time, one of Grant\u2019s debts had moved away from me instead of toward me.<\/p>\n
Rebecca called two mornings later with news about Adrian Cole. \u201cHe has agreed to provide a sworn statement.\u201d I stopped trimming the top of a vanilla cake layer. \u201cWhy now?\u201d … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7700","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\/7700","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=7700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7720,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7700\/revisions\/7720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}