Amber stared at the photograph of Samuel as though the boy might become familiar if she looked long enough.<\/p>\n
He did not.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat can\u2019t be right.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine nodded slowly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were four.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d remember a brother.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNot necessarily.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember Michael.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael was still there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Samuel wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bentley sat close to the screen.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow old was Samuel?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEight.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine\u2019s eyes moved toward Amber.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour father took you all to a lake.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amber shook her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember a lake.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRed Creek reservoir.\u201d<\/p>\n
The name turned the air cold again.<\/p>\n
Elaine continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou were small. Michael was ten. Samuel was eight.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRaymond said Samuel wandered onto a dock and fell.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBody?\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris asked.<\/p>\n
Elaine\u2019s mouth tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cNever recovered.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course.<\/p>\n
\u201cPolice report?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was one.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you see it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cInvestigation?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShort.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey said currents could carry a child far.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt a quarry reservoir?\u201d Harris asked.<\/p>\n
Elaine looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat bothered me too.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Raymond?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe acted destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you believe him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor years.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat changed?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine rubbed both hands together.<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amber leaned forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Michael say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore he disappeared, he told me Samuel didn\u2019t drown.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobody spoke.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said he remembered Dad arguing with someone near the boathouse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was ten.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat else?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe remembered Samuel crying.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amber covered her mouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDad put Michael and you in the car.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWithout Samuel?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said Samuel had already gone back with a family friend.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat contradicts the drowning story.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen did Raymond say he drowned?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHours later.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris leaned forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo first Raymond told Michael Samuel left with someone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen later told everyone Samuel fell in the water.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t Michael say something immediately?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo whom?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine\u2019s face changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cA deputy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris went still.<\/p>\n
\u201cName?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember the surname.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTell me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBrenner.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris\u2019s jaw tightened.<\/p>\n
Doug noticed.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCurrent?\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cSheriff Thomas Brenner.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
The current county sheriff.<\/p>\n
A man who had been in law enforcement long enough to be a deputy when Samuel disappeared.<\/p>\n
Martinez swore through the phone.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s one of the names Raymond wouldn\u2019t give.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris looked at him.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou suspected Brenner?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI suspected someone high enough to bury reports.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t you say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause suspicion without evidence gets careers destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently silence gets families destroyed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Martinez accepted that.<\/p>\n
Elaine continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael told Deputy Brenner that Samuel left with someone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Brenner do?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNothing I saw.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid the report include it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
Within an hour Harris obtained the archived report.<\/p>\n
Samuel Collins.<\/p>\n
Age eight.<\/p>\n
Presumed drowned.<\/p>\n
Witnesses: Raymond Collins, Elaine Collins.<\/p>\n
Michael\u2019s name appeared nowhere as a witness.<\/p>\n
Amber\u2019s did not either.<\/p>\n
The report stated both younger children were \u201casleep in vehicle\u201d during the incident.<\/p>\n
False.<\/p>\n
Michael had been awake.<\/p>\n
He had spoken to Brenner.<\/p>\n
And the deputy had excluded him.<\/p>\n
Harris read another line.<\/p>\n
Investigating deputy concluded no evidence of foul play.<\/p>\n
Signed:<\/p>\n
T. Brenner.<\/p>\n
Bentley whispered, \u201cHe lied too.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pattern had existed decades before Voss\u2019s modern fraud network.<\/p>\n
Before Travis.<\/p>\n
Before Amber learned bookkeeping.<\/p>\n
Before Raymond\u2019s later betrayals.<\/p>\n
Something at Red Creek had required an eight-year-old boy to disappear.<\/p>\n
And a deputy had helped make the disappearance official.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs Samuel alive?\u201d Bentley asked.<\/p>\n
No one knew.<\/p>\n
Harris began searching records for unidentified children placed into foster care, private guardianships, name changes, hospital admissions, anything around the relevant year.<\/p>\n
The date was more than twenty-five years earlier.<\/p>\n
Digital records were thin.<\/p>\n
Paper records incomplete.<\/p>\n
But one detail in the drowning report stood out.<\/p>\n
A vehicle description.<\/p>\n
A blue Chevrolet Suburban seen leaving the quarry road around the estimated time Samuel vanished.<\/p>\n
Owner unknown.<\/p>\n
Elaine stared at the description.<\/p>\n
\u201cI remember that vehicle.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhose?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cVoss.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris looked at Martinez.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrederick Voss?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe drove one exactly like it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Raymond know Voss then?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow well?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cToo well.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fraud relationship was older than anyone had established.<\/p>\n
Raymond and Voss had been connected before Samuel disappeared.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat would Voss want with an eight-year-old?\u201d Doug asked.<\/p>\n
Nobody had a sane answer.<\/p>\n
Until Elaine said, \u201cLeverage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amber looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour father tried to leave Voss once.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBefore Samuel disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room went still.<\/p>\n
\u201cRaymond wanted out?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said he did.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was scared.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOf what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething Voss made him do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine shook her head.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe never told me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen Samuel vanished.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd Raymond stayed working for Voss.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was the likely shape.<\/p>\n
Samuel\u2019s disappearance had kept Raymond obedient.<\/p>\n
Maybe the child was alive somewhere.<\/p>\n
Maybe Voss had used him as leverage.<\/p>\n
Maybe Raymond had participated and later created the drowning story.<\/p>\n
Every possibility was terrible.<\/p>\n
At three that afternoon, Harris attempted to question Sheriff Brenner.<\/p>\n
Brenner was not at his office.<\/p>\n
His staff said he had taken personal leave that morning.<\/p>\n
His department vehicle remained parked.<\/p>\n
His personal truck was gone.<\/p>\n
Phone off.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe ran,\u201d Bentley said.<\/p>\n
Harris did not correct him.<\/p>\n
State police issued a locate request.<\/p>\n
By evening, Brenner\u2019s truck was captured on a highway camera heading west.<\/p>\n
Not south.<\/p>\n
Not toward Voss.<\/p>\n
Toward Missouri.<\/p>\n
That seemed random until Martinez remembered a property.<\/p>\n
\u201cVoss family farm.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOutside Columbia.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStill theirs?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSold years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo whom?\u201d<\/p>\n
Martinez searched.<\/p>\n
His face changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrenner\u2019s sister.\u201d<\/p>\n
The connection had survived through family ownership.<\/p>\n
Police in Missouri were notified.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile federal investigators expanded warrants involving Voss\u2019s archived records.<\/p>\n
A ledger from Red Creek contained initials corresponding to Brenner.<\/p>\n
T.B.<\/p>\n
Payments began twenty-six years earlier.<\/p>\n
The year Samuel disappeared.<\/p>\n
The first payment occurred three days afterward.<\/p>\n
Large.<\/p>\n
Cash equivalent of almost six months of a deputy\u2019s salary.<\/p>\n
Bentley looked at the number.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe got paid because Samuel disappeared?\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris answered carefully.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know he got paid around then.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat means yes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt suggests it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bentley hated legal precision.<\/p>\n
I was beginning to appreciate it.<\/p>\n
Too much damage in this family had come from adults converting assumptions into facts.<\/p>\n
At six fifteen, Missouri police located Brenner\u2019s truck behind an abandoned farmhouse.<\/p>\n
No Brenner.<\/p>\n
Inside the house they found food, clothing, cash, and a passport under another name.<\/p>\n
The photograph showed Brenner.<\/p>\n
The passport had been issued five years earlier.<\/p>\n
He had planned for disappearance.<\/p>\n
A second passport was found.<\/p>\n
Older.<\/p>\n
Expired.<\/p>\n
Different photograph.<\/p>\n
The name stopped everyone.<\/p>\n
SAMUEL RAY COLLINS.<\/p>\n
Amber stared at it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris enlarged the image.<\/p>\n
The man pictured was not Brenner.<\/p>\n
He appeared in his early thirties at the time of issue.<\/p>\n
Dark hair.<\/p>\n
Long face.<\/p>\n
Something about the eyes looked familiar.<\/p>\n
Elaine began sobbing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSamuel?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amber leaned toward the screen.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s my brother?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine nodded.<\/p>\n
Samuel had survived childhood.<\/p>\n
At least into adulthood.<\/p>\n
His identity had been used or hidden through Brenner\u2019s network.<\/p>\n
The passport had expired eight years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy does Brenner have it?\u201d Amber asked.<\/p>\n
No answer.<\/p>\n
Another document lay beneath it.<\/p>\n
A Missouri driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n
Samuel R. Collins.<\/p>\n
Different address.<\/p>\n
Expired three years ago.<\/p>\n
Then a photograph.<\/p>\n
Samuel older.<\/p>\n
Standing beside Sheriff Brenner.<\/p>\n
Both smiling.<\/p>\n
That made no sense if Brenner had kidnapped or buried him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey knew each other,\u201d Bentley said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe Samuel wasn\u2019t a prisoner.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe not.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine wiped her face.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did Raymond do?\u201d<\/p>\n
That question had become almost unbearable.<\/p>\n
At seven, Harris returned to Raymond.<\/p>\n
This time he brought the photograph of adult Samuel.<\/p>\n
Raymond reportedly stared at it for a long time.<\/p>\n
Then asked, \u201cWhere did you get that?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBrenner\u2019s property.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond closed his eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Thomas kept it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSamuel survived.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is he?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew he survived.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy tell your family he drowned?\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond\u2019s answer came quietly.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Frederick owned him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris pressed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSamuel saw something.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt eight years old?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cA man die.\u201d<\/p>\n
The fraud case suddenly became something darker.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat man?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA contractor named Lewis Garner.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho killed him?\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond\u2019s eyes opened.<\/p>\n
\u201cFrederick.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Raymond, Samuel had wandered into the boathouse during an argument and witnessed Voss strike Garner with a metal tool.<\/p>\n
Garner died.<\/p>\n
Raymond panicked.<\/p>\n
Voss saw Samuel.<\/p>\n
Everything afterward became containment.<\/p>\n
Brenner, then a young deputy, falsified the drowning report.<\/p>\n
Samuel was moved away under another identity.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy not kill him?\u201d Harris asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I told Frederick if Samuel died, everything I knew went to police.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou protected him?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI tried.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBy abandoning him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBy keeping him alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Again.<\/p>\n
The same defense.<\/p>\n
The same word.<\/p>\n
Raymond claimed Brenner arranged for Samuel to live with relatives connected to him in Missouri.<\/p>\n
Samuel was told his family believed he drowned because contacting them would put everyone at risk.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Samuel believe you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAt first.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd later?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe hated me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cReasonably.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did Brenner keep his passport?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is Samuel now?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen did you last speak?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSix years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond looked away.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat he was going to expose everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe disappeared.\u201d<\/p>\n
Another disappearance.<\/p>\n
But this time perhaps Samuel chose it.<\/p>\n
Harris returned to us near midnight.<\/p>\n
Bentley was awake despite my orders.<\/p>\n
He listened to the account.<\/p>\n
Then asked the question that mattered.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf Samuel wanted to expose everybody, why didn\u2019t he?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe he did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris frowned.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe he gave stuff to somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho?\u201d<\/p>\n
Bentley looked toward the blue notebook.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat people said. What actually happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
He turned several pages.<\/p>\n
\u201cUncle Michael tried police.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMom tried Martinez.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cGrandma tried hiding.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSamuel maybe tried somebody else.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris leaned forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cLike who?\u201d<\/p>\n
Bentley shrugged.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomeone nobody notices.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ray Harper\u2019s phrase.<\/p>\n
The safest man is the one nobody notices.<\/p>\n
Except Ray had chosen a woman.<\/p>\n
Harris looked at me.<\/p>\n
\u201cYour husband knew Raymond\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSome.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid he ever know Samuel?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think so.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then I remembered something.<\/p>\n
Ray had once helped a young man repair a motorcycle in our garage.<\/p>\n
Years ago.<\/p>\n
Quiet.<\/p>\n
Dark hair.<\/p>\n
Stayed all afternoon.<\/p>\n
He introduced himself as Sam.<\/p>\n
I had forgotten him because he was simply another person Ray helped.<\/p>\n
My pulse quickened.<\/p>\n
\u201cWait.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone turned.<\/p>\n
I went to the old photo box in my closet.<\/p>\n
Ray photographed everything.<\/p>\n
Projects.<\/p>\n
Cars.<\/p>\n
Tomatoes.<\/p>\n
Broken fences.<\/p>\n
I found the picture.<\/p>\n
Ray beside an old motorcycle.<\/p>\n
Next to him, a man perhaps thirty.<\/p>\n
Dark hair.<\/p>\n
Long face.<\/p>\n
Same eyes as the passport photograph.<\/p>\n
On the back, Ray had written:<\/p>\n
SAM C. \u2013 BIKE FINALLY RUNS \u2013 APRIL 2017.<\/p>\n
Harris stared.<\/p>\n
\u201cSamuel was here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bentley looked toward the shared wall.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe came back to Grandpa\u2019s old house.\u201d<\/p>\n
Not Raymond\u2019s old house.<\/p>\n
Ours.<\/p>\n
Ray\u2019s garage.<\/p>\n
Perhaps because Raymond had once learned the same thing Amber later did.<\/p>\n
Ray Harper kept records.<\/p>\n
And helped people without asking too many questions.<\/p>\n
Inside the photograph envelope was another item I had never noticed.<\/p>\n
A small brass key taped to cardboard.<\/p>\n
Under it, Ray\u2019s handwriting:<\/p>\n
SAM\u2019S. BANK BOX. IF HE DOESN\u2019T RETURN, GIVE TO EVELYN.<\/p>\n
My sister again.<\/p>\n
The woman nobody noticed.<\/p>\n
Amber stared at the photograph of Samuel as though the boy might become familiar if she looked long enough. He did not. \u201cThat can\u2019t be right.\u201d Elaine nodded slowly. \u201cYou … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7825","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\/7825","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=7825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7865,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7825\/revisions\/7865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}