I turned toward Elaine.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou said you didn\u2019t treat him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI said not as a child.\u201d<\/p>\n
The distinction was so calculated that I wanted to overturn the table between us.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did you give my son?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine looked at Stephen Mercer with open fury.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou had no right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephen laughed without humor.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re still talking about rights?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGet out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stepped between them.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth of you stop.\u201d<\/p>\n
They did.<\/p>\n
Perhaps it was my voice.<\/p>\n
Perhaps my face.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Caleb receive?\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephen answered first.<\/p>\n
\u201cA viral-vector therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca whispered, \u201cGene therapy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cExperimental.\u201d<\/p>\n
My skin went cold.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cApproximately five weeks before his hospitalization.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at Elaine.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe came back to you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the recording from the caf\u00e9 shows he refused.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did he change his mind?\u201d<\/p>\n
She did not answer.<\/p>\n
Stephen did.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause he learned about Lily.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca turned sharply.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does Lily have to do with Caleb\u2019s neurological disease?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe treatment wasn\u2019t primarily for Caleb.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
I stared at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat makes no sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt will.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine sat heavily.<\/p>\n
For the first time since we entered the warehouse, she looked frightened not of exposure, but of memory.<\/p>\n
\u201cCaleb discovered Harold\u2019s modifier work,\u201d Stephen said. \u201cHe realized the same platform Elaine had been developing for neurodegenerative disease could potentially target the pathway involved in Lily\u2019s cardiac mutation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou experimented on him to help my daughter?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d Elaine said quickly.<\/p>\n
Stephen ignored her.<\/p>\n
\u201cCaleb offered himself as a test case.\u201d<\/p>\n
My heart stopped.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew the vector had never been used successfully in someone with his specific progression.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe also knew his disease was advancing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
The word came louder each time.<\/p>\n
Not because I doubted Stephen.<\/p>\n
Because I knew Caleb.<\/p>\n
I knew exactly what he might do if he believed his death could produce information that helped Lily.<\/p>\n
Rebecca covered her mouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe did that for her?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine finally stood.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe did it because he wanted evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n
We looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat evidence?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat my work could be made legitimate.\u201d<\/p>\n
I almost laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cCaleb did not care about your reputation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine\u2019s voice sharpened.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe cared about whether the platform had value independent of what Harold and I had done.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sounded more like my son.<\/p>\n
He would separate a useful tool from the people who misused it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he ask for?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe full protocol. Toxicology data. Prior outcomes. Everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you give it to him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause he refused otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephen leaned against the shelf.<\/p>\n
\u201cCaleb was more careful than she expected.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine gave him a hard look.<\/p>\n
I ignored them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat exactly happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
She took a breath.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe therapy was designed to reduce expression of a toxic protein pathway associated with his neurological variant.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWas it supposed to cure him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSlow progression?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen how does Lily enter this?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCaleb wanted tissue and blood analysis before and after treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor research.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted to see whether the vector altered secondary pathways.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of those pathways overlapped with the cardiac modifier we had been studying.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca whispered, \u201cMy daughter\u2019s mutation.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRelated pathways. Not necessarily the exact mutation.\u201d<\/p>\n
I felt sick.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Caleb used his own body to test whether your therapy could produce information useful to Lily.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine looked down.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
The word was unbearable.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened after the dose?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe developed fever, inflammation, transient weakness.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTransient?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe first reaction resolved.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut his disease accelerated.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid the treatment cause that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stepped closer.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephen spoke quietly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was evidence of an immune response that could have worsened neuronal injury.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine turned on him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no proven causal relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou wrote it in the adverse-event report.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou read a draft.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause you buried the final.\u201d<\/p>\n
My vision narrowed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBuried.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
I understood.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou did not report what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was not a regulated trial.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat makes it worse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The word came out tired.<\/p>\n
Finally tired.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Caleb know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore or after?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore, he knew the risk. After, he knew the inflammatory markers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd he still didn\u2019t tell me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
He had taken Daniel\u2019s worst habit and turned it inward.<\/p>\n
He decided my fear was unnecessary if there was nothing I could do.<\/p>\n
Exactly what he had condemned his father for.<\/p>\n
The tragedy of it almost made me laugh.<\/p>\n
Instead I sat.<\/p>\n
Rebecca remained silent across the room.<\/p>\n
She looked devastated.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid the treatment shorten his life?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
Elaine did not answer immediately.<\/p>\n
Stephen did.<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow much?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo one can say.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWeeks?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMonths?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
My hands became numb.<\/p>\n
Caleb had already been dying.<\/p>\n
But there was a difference between losing time to disease and losing time because he volunteered for an experiment.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he gain?\u201d<\/p>\n
I asked.<\/p>\n
Elaine looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cData.\u201d<\/p>\n
I hated her for the word.<\/p>\n
Then she added, \u201cAnd something else.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter treatment, his disease-related biomarker dropped.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cMeaning?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe therapy engaged its target.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why did he get worse?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe immune reaction may have damaged already vulnerable tissue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it worked and harmed him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Science reduced tragedy to two simultaneous truths.<\/p>\n
The mechanism succeeded.<\/p>\n
The patient deteriorated.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Caleb regret it?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine\u2019s expression changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked away.<\/p>\n
That answer hurt more than regret would have.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe should have.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe believed the result mattered.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Lily?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor anyone with the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n
I thought about Caleb telling me not to let his illness become my whole life.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile he had turned his own remaining life into evidence for strangers.<\/p>\n
Anger and pride arrived together.<\/p>\n
I did not want either.<\/p>\n
Stephen moved toward a filing cabinet.<\/p>\n
Elaine stepped in front of him.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re past that.\u201d<\/p>\n
He opened the top drawer anyway.<\/p>\n
Inside were binders labeled with dates.<\/p>\n
He removed one.<\/p>\n
C.H.<\/p>\n
Caleb Hartman.<\/p>\n
I nearly stopped breathing.<\/p>\n
His entire final medical history sat in a black binder in Elaine\u2019s warehouse.<\/p>\n
Stephen placed it before me.<\/p>\n
The first pages were consent forms.<\/p>\n
Caleb\u2019s signature.<\/p>\n
No forgery.<\/p>\n
No ambiguity.<\/p>\n
He had initialed every risk.<\/p>\n
Inflammation.<\/p>\n
Organ injury.<\/p>\n
Neurological worsening.<\/p>\n
Death.<\/p>\n
I had to turn away.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe signed this.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWas he competent?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine\u2019s face hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cAbsolutely.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWas he desperate?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you use that?\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Then, \u201cProbably.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was the first answer from her that sounded like remorse rather than defense.<\/p>\n
I opened the binder again.<\/p>\n
Caleb had written a note across one page in his own handwriting.<\/p>\n
NO HERO LANGUAGE.<\/p>\n
I almost smiled.<\/p>\n
Below it:<\/p>\n
If I do this, document failures honestly.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
If this goes badly, no one gets to call me brave to avoid saying it went badly.<\/p>\n
My throat closed.<\/p>\n
He had anticipated exactly how people turn suffering into inspiration when they do not want to confront responsibility.<\/p>\n
The adverse-event section showed fever beginning eleven hours after infusion.<\/p>\n
Inflammatory markers rose dramatically.<\/p>\n
Weakness worsened over forty-eight hours.<\/p>\n
Caleb refused hospitalization at first.<\/p>\n
That explained the weekend he told me he had a stomach virus and stayed in bed.<\/p>\n
I had brought soup upstairs.<\/p>\n
I had touched his forehead.<\/p>\n
I had asked whether he needed a doctor.<\/p>\n
He said no.<\/p>\n
I had trusted him.<\/p>\n
My chest hurt.<\/p>\n
Three days later, he saw Elaine again.<\/p>\n
She recommended hospital evaluation.<\/p>\n
He refused because he did not want the experimental treatment documented before he copied all the research files.<\/p>\n
Even sick, he was gathering evidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did he distrust you enough to copy everything but trust you enough to let you treat him?\u201d<\/p>\n
I asked.<\/p>\n
Elaine looked at Caleb\u2019s binder.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t trust me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat doesn\u2019t answer it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe trusted the underlying science.\u201d<\/p>\n
That sounded like him too.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe told me people can be wrong even when data are useful.\u201d<\/p>\n
I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n
Yes.<\/p>\n
Caleb.<\/p>\n
Precise.<\/p>\n
Annoyingly fair.<\/p>\n
Never willing to turn a person into a single category simply because anger made it convenient.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he copy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything I let him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephen laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd everything you didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine ignored him.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter the reaction, he demanded access to Harold\u2019s old specimen logs.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s how he found Mercer\u2019s sample.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Lily\u2019s project.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe thought the heart mutation came from Mercer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe suspected Harold\u2019s material had contaminated the reproductive sample.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI still do not know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephen spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do.\u201d<\/p>\n
We all turned.<\/p>\n
Elaine\u2019s face changed instantly.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephen looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew this day could come.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you know?\u201d Rebecca asked.<\/p>\n
Stephen removed a folder from his coat.<\/p>\n
\u201cI found my father\u2019s laboratory notebooks after he died.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine went pale.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou told me they were destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI lied.\u201d<\/p>\n
For the first time, someone had used her own method against her.<\/p>\n
Stephen handed the folder to Rebecca.<\/p>\n
Inside were photocopied notebook pages.<\/p>\n
Harold Mercer\u2019s handwriting.<\/p>\n
Dates matching Rebecca\u2019s fertility cycle.<\/p>\n
One entry read:<\/p>\n
D.H. gametes combined with HM-EV cardiac modifier preparation.<\/p>\n
Rebecca sank into a chair.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does EV mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephen looked at Elaine.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy father called the preparation HM-EV because two genetic sources were used.\u201d<\/p>\n
My pulse jumped.<\/p>\n
\u201cHarold Mercer and Elaine Voss.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine whispered, \u201cStephen.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe modifier material wasn\u2019t only my father\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n
I stared at Elaine.<\/p>\n
\u201cYours too?\u201d<\/p>\n
She looked down.<\/p>\n
Rebecca\u2019s face went white.<\/p>\n
Stephen nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cHarold was studying interaction between his cardiac-risk allele and a protective variant Elaine carried.\u201d<\/p>\n
I tried to follow.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey mixed biological material from both of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Daniel\u2019s reproductive sample.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Harold believed extracellular genetic material might influence early embryonic gene regulation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca stood so quickly her chair fell backward.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou used my pregnancy to test a theory.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine said, \u201cI did not design that experiment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you participated.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was no defense left.<\/p>\n
No misunderstanding.<\/p>\n
No administrative confusion.<\/p>\n
She had known.<\/p>\n
Rebecca\u2019s voice shook.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Lily\u2019s heart?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine covered her face.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe expected any effect, if there was one, to be regulatory. Temporary. Not inherited.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou expected.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter was born with a defective heart.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou watched her undergo surgery.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou kept calling me for records.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine began crying.<\/p>\n
Not dramatically.<\/p>\n
Her shoulders barely moved.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca stepped closer.<\/p>\n
For one second, I thought she might strike her.<\/p>\n
Instead she whispered, \u201cYou knew enough to wonder.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine lowered her hands.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you never told me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rebecca walked away.<\/p>\n
There was nothing anyone could say to make that smaller.<\/p>\n
I looked at Stephen.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy reveal this now?\u201d<\/p>\n
His answer came without hesitation.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Caleb asked me to.\u201d<\/p>\n
My heart tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou met him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter his treatment reaction.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t that appear in his recordings?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause he agreed not to record me.\u201d<\/p>\n
That surprised me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI told him I had my father\u2019s notebooks.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI promised to give them to him if he first proved Elaine\u2019s records matched.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo he did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you give them to him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anger rose.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou let him die without them?\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephen\u2019s face tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe died sooner than I expected.\u201d<\/p>\n
The sentence hit me like a slap.<\/p>\n
Everyone thought they had more time.<\/p>\n
Daniel.<\/p>\n
Michael.<\/p>\n
Caleb.<\/p>\n
All those postponed truths.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen Caleb realized he might not get back to you,\u201d I said, \u201cwhat did he ask?\u201d<\/p>\n
Stephen reached into the folder.<\/p>\n
He removed a sealed note.<\/p>\n
\u201cExactly this.\u201d<\/p>\n
My name was written on it.<\/p>\n
Again.<\/p>\n
Caleb had left breadcrumbs through the lives of people he barely trusted.<\/p>\n
I opened it.<\/p>\n
Mom,<\/p>\n
If Stephen actually gave you this, tell him I\u2019m impressed.<\/p>\n
A laugh escaped me before I could stop it.<\/p>\n
Stephen almost smiled.<\/p>\n
The next lines were serious.<\/p>\n
The treatment may have cost me time. I knew that before I took it.<\/p>\n
Do not let Elaine call what happened a success just because one biomarker improved.<\/p>\n
Do not let anyone call it useless either. Make them publish all of it.<\/p>\n
I pressed the paper against the table.<\/p>\n
That was what Caleb wanted.<\/p>\n
Not revenge.<\/p>\n
Truth.<\/p>\n
All of it.<\/p>\n
The benefit.<\/p>\n
The harm.<\/p>\n
The ethical violations.<\/p>\n
No selective story.<\/p>\n
At the bottom he had written:<\/p>\n
And Mom \u2014 Lily doesn\u2019t owe me her life.<\/p>\n
Please make sure she knows that.<\/p>\n
I could not continue for a minute.<\/p>\n
When I finally unfolded the second page, there was only one paragraph.<\/p>\n
If you want to know why I chose the treatment, look at the date I signed the consent form and compare it with the day Lily was listed as urgent for transplant.<\/p>\n
I did.<\/p>\n
Same day.<\/p>\n
Caleb had learned Lily might die before receiving a heart.<\/p>\n
He could not give her his heart while he was alive.<\/p>\n
So he tried to give her information instead.<\/p>\n
And in doing so, he may have accelerated the disease that eventually made his heart available to her.<\/p>\n
The circle was so cruel I could barely breathe.<\/p>\n
Then I noticed one final line.<\/p>\n
If my heart ends up being hers, do not let anyone say I planned that.<\/p>\n
I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
I just knew that if I ran out of time, I wanted whatever remained to be useful.<\/p>\n
I turned toward Elaine. \u201cYou said you didn\u2019t treat him.\u201d \u201cI said not as a child.\u201d The distinction was so calculated that I wanted to overturn the table between us. … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7724,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7739","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\/7739","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=7739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7759,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7739\/revisions\/7759"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}