Evelyn answered my call with, \u201cWhat did Ray leave now?\u201d<\/p>\n
Even under the circumstances, I laughed.<\/p>\n
\u201cA key.\u201d<\/p>\n
She became quiet.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat kind?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSmall brass. Ray wrote \u2018Sam\u2019s bank box.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvelyn?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
My stomach tightened.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know what?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI have the box information.\u201d<\/p>\n
Of course she did.<\/p>\n
My sister had spent years unknowingly serving as the final shelf in Ray\u2019s archive.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou never thought to mention this?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cTo whom?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMe!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRay told me not to unless a man named Samuel Collins came back.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe did come back.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know that.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe was in our garage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cArlene, I lived twelve hundred miles away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fair.<\/p>\n
Barely.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat exactly did Ray give you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cA bank name, branch, and written authorization.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAuthorization from Samuel?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris leaned close.<\/p>\n
\u201cIs the bank in Florida?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. Indiana.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cStill operating?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was.<\/p>\n
Merged twice, renamed once, but the original safe-deposit records remained.<\/p>\n
Because Samuel had listed Ray as an authorized secondary contact and Evelyn as successor custodian under specific written conditions, the bank\u2019s lawyers became involved immediately.<\/p>\n
Nothing was simple.<\/p>\n
But federal warrants accelerated what paperwork might otherwise have delayed.<\/p>\n
By afternoon, investigators opened the box.<\/p>\n
Harris insisted Bentley not be present for the first review.<\/p>\n
This time Bentley did not argue.<\/p>\n
He had begun learning the difference between being excluded and being protected.<\/p>\n
I stayed with him while Harris went downtown.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat do you think is inside?\u201d Bentley asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cPapers.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou always say that when you don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is because papers are usually inside boxes.\u201d<\/p>\n
He rolled his eyes.<\/p>\n
Maddie sat under the kitchen table feeding crackers to her stuffed rabbit.<\/p>\n
The sight was so ordinary it hurt.<\/p>\n
Two weeks earlier, she had been drinking from an empty cup while Bentley rationed food.<\/p>\n
Now sunlight came through the window.<\/p>\n
The faucet worked.<\/p>\n
Police cruisers no longer sat directly outside, though an unmarked car remained nearby.<\/p>\n
Safety had not arrived all at once.<\/p>\n
It accumulated.<\/p>\n
Locks.<\/p>\n
Food.<\/p>\n
Truth.<\/p>\n
Adults finally showing up.<\/p>\n
Harris returned after five.<\/p>\n
His expression told me the box mattered.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSamuel documented everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bentley looked up.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverything?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEnough.\u201d<\/p>\n
Inside were photographs of Red Creek from decades earlier.<\/p>\n
Copies of Raymond\u2019s financial ledgers.<\/p>\n
A cassette recording.<\/p>\n
Later digital recordings.<\/p>\n
Letters.<\/p>\n
Names.<\/p>\n
And a sworn statement written by Samuel himself.<\/p>\n
The statement described the day he disappeared.<\/p>\n
Samuel had gone looking for Michael near the quarry dock.<\/p>\n
Instead, he saw Voss arguing with contractor Lewis Garner over money.<\/p>\n
Garner threatened to report fraudulent insurance claims.<\/p>\n
Voss struck him.<\/p>\n
Once.<\/p>\n
Then again.<\/p>\n
Garner fell.<\/p>\n
Samuel screamed.<\/p>\n
Raymond arrived minutes later.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Grandpa see it?\u201d Bentley asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot the killing.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he do?\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris looked toward me before answering.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe helped cover it up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bentley\u2019s face changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though Samuel saw?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond moved Garner\u2019s body with Voss.<\/p>\n
Brenner, the young deputy, wrote the false drowning report after Voss and Raymond decided Samuel could not safely return home.<\/p>\n
Samuel was driven to Missouri.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy who?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBrenner.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Grandpa really did send him away.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t Grandma stop it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was told Samuel was already missing.\u201d<\/p>\n
The manipulation had begun immediately.<\/p>\n
Raymond told each person only enough to control their next action.<\/p>\n
Samuel\u2019s statement described years of changing names and temporary homes.<\/p>\n
At first he believed Voss would kill his family if he contacted them.<\/p>\n
Later he began doubting everything Raymond had told him.<\/p>\n
At eighteen, Samuel tried calling Elaine.<\/p>\n
The number had changed.<\/p>\n
At twenty-one, he contacted Michael through an old friend.<\/p>\n
Bentley sat straighter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey found each other?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cFor a while.\u201d<\/p>\n
Michael had already escaped Red Creek by then.<\/p>\n
Raymond had indeed provided money and a false identity.<\/p>\n
The brothers exchanged letters through intermediaries.<\/p>\n
Both were afraid direct family contact would expose Amber and Elaine.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere\u2019s Michael now?\u201d Bentley asked.<\/p>\n
Harris hesitated.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe may know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAlive?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPossibly.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel\u2019s records included a photograph from three years earlier.<\/p>\n
Michael standing outside a marina in Maine.<\/p>\n
Different name written on the back.<\/p>\n
MICAH CRAWFORD.<\/p>\n
Federal agents were checking.<\/p>\n
Amber cried when told.<\/p>\n
Not with certainty.<\/p>\n
Hope remained dangerous until confirmed.<\/p>\n
But it existed.<\/p>\n
Samuel had also investigated Raymond.<\/p>\n
That was what led him to Ray Harper.<\/p>\n
In 2017, Samuel returned to Indiana under an alias.<\/p>\n
He discovered Raymond had once rented our duplex and suspected Ray might possess old mail or records.<\/p>\n
He approached cautiously.<\/p>\n
Ray apparently recognized something was wrong but did not expose him.<\/p>\n
Instead, he fixed Samuel\u2019s motorcycle, fed him dinner, and listened.<\/p>\n
That was Ray.<\/p>\n
Not heroic in the dramatic sense.<\/p>\n
Just unwilling to close a garage door on somebody scared.<\/p>\n
Samuel trusted him enough to leave the bank-box key.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t Ray tell you?\u201d Bentley asked me.<\/p>\n
\u201cProbably because he promised.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou hate secrets.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo was he wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n
I looked at the photograph of Ray beside Samuel.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bentley waited.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can love him and still think he should\u2019ve told me more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bentley nodded slowly.<\/p>\n
That idea mattered to him.<\/p>\n
Love without pretending mistakes vanish.<\/p>\n
Harris continued.<\/p>\n
Samuel\u2019s bank box contained another recording.<\/p>\n
Digital.<\/p>\n
Dated six years earlier.<\/p>\n
The last known contact between Samuel and Raymond.<\/p>\n
Harris had listened once.<\/p>\n
He looked troubled.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s on it?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cRaymond.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did he say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSomething that changes parts of his story.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobody was surprised anymore.<\/p>\n
Harris connected the recorder to a small speaker.<\/p>\n
Raymond\u2019s younger voice filled the kitchen.<\/p>\n
\u201cSamuel, you shouldn\u2019t have come back.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou knew I would.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI hoped you were smarter.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI learned from you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou learned suspicion.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI learned you lie.\u201d<\/p>\n
A pause.<\/p>\n
Then Samuel said, \u201cTell me where Michael is.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond answered, \u201cSafe.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou always can\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause knowing gets people hurt.\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel laughed bitterly.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou should put that on the family crest.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bentley looked at me.<\/p>\n
Even years earlier, someone else had already recognized the pattern.<\/p>\n
Samuel continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Voss order Michael taken?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid you help him escape?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause he\u2019s my son.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd I wasn\u2019t?\u201d<\/p>\n
Long silence.<\/p>\n
Then Raymond said, \u201cYou were the reason he obeyed me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everyone in my kitchen went still.<\/p>\n
Samuel\u2019s voice changed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond tried to move past it.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou heard me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSay it again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael knew you were alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe knew?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAll those years?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter Red Creek.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy didn\u2019t he come get me?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause I told him if he contacted you, Voss would find Amber.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bentley whispered, \u201cGrandpa used Samuel against Michael.\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris nodded.<\/p>\n
The recording continued.<\/p>\n
Samuel sounded shattered.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou kept all of us apart.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI kept all of you alive.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou keep saying that.\u201d<\/p>\n
There it was again.<\/p>\n
The family sentence.<\/p>\n
Raymond\u2019s defense against everything.<\/p>\n
Samuel asked, \u201cWhat about Mom?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was safer away.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAmber?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe needed to think you were dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Voss watched her.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe was four.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cLater.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou made the lie before later.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond\u2019s breathing became audible.<\/p>\n
Then he said something unexpected.<\/p>\n
\u201cSamuel, you were not supposed to be at Red Creek that day.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo. You don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat does that mean?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe person Voss expected was Amber.\u201d<\/p>\n
My skin went cold.<\/p>\n
Amber, listening remotely from the hospital, made a sound.<\/p>\n
She had been four.<\/p>\n
Samuel said, \u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond continued.<\/p>\n
\u201cVoss wanted leverage over me. He told me to bring one of my children.\u201d<\/p>\n
The room became completely silent.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou brought Amber?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho did you bring?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI brought you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine sobbed through the video connection.<\/p>\n
Samuel\u2019s voice on the recording disappeared for several seconds.<\/p>\n
Then:<\/p>\n
\u201cYou chose me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond answered, \u201cI thought it was temporary.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou handed me to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought he wanted leverage.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe killed a man in front of me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t know Garner would be there.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou still brought me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
There was the truth beneath decades of stories.<\/p>\n
Samuel had not wandered into danger.<\/p>\n
Raymond had delivered him to it.<\/p>\n
Then tried to manage the consequences forever.<\/p>\n
Samuel\u2019s voice shook with rage.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou didn\u2019t save me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond answered quietly.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know.\u201d<\/p>\n
That was the first time I had ever heard him surrender the word protect.<\/p>\n
Samuel asked, \u201cWhy Amber?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy did Voss ask for Amber?\u201d<\/p>\n
Another pause.<\/p>\n
Raymond said, \u201cBecause she wasn\u2019t mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amber sat absolutely still on the hospital screen.<\/p>\n
Bentley looked at her.<\/p>\n
\u201cMom?\u201d<\/p>\n
The recording continued.<\/p>\n
Samuel said, \u201cWhat are you talking about?\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond\u2019s voice dropped.<\/p>\n
\u201cElaine had an affair.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine shouted from Oregon, \u201cNo!\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris paused the recording.<\/p>\n
Every face turned toward her.<\/p>\n
Elaine looked furious.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat is a lie.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you sure?\u201d Harris asked.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cCompletely?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amber stared at her mother.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why would he say that?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine\u2019s expression changed.<\/p>\n
Because she knew.<\/p>\n
Maybe not the lie.<\/p>\n
The reason.<\/p>\n
\u201cMom?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine looked away.<\/p>\n
\u201cRaymond believed something that wasn\u2019t true.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe believed Frederick was your father.\u201d<\/p>\n
No one moved.<\/p>\n
Amber whispered, \u201cVoss?\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine shook her head violently.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen why?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause Frederick told him.\u201d<\/p>\n
The story shifted again.<\/p>\n
According to Elaine, Voss had spent years controlling Raymond through jealousy, suspicion, and information.<\/p>\n
When Amber was born, Voss told Raymond she might be his child.<\/p>\n
No proof.<\/p>\n
No truth.<\/p>\n
Just poison.<\/p>\n
Raymond never fully believed Elaine afterward.<\/p>\n
And Voss discovered the suspicion could be used.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted Amber as leverage because Raymond thought she might belong to Voss?\u201d Doug asked.<\/p>\n
Elaine nodded.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wanted Raymond to choose.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBetween children?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bentley looked sick.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrandpa picked Samuel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elaine closed her eyes.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe brought one kid so Voss wouldn\u2019t take another.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
No manipulation could make that protective.<\/p>\n
No fear erased the choice.<\/p>\n
Harris restarted the recording.<\/p>\n
Samuel asked Raymond, \u201cWas Amber Voss\u2019s daughter?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI tested it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYears later.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Amber know?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDid Voss?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat did the test say?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s mine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amber covered her face.<\/p>\n
Raymond had known for years.<\/p>\n
He still never told Elaine.<\/p>\n
Never told Amber.<\/p>\n
He kept the old suspicion available because secrets gave him leverage.<\/p>\n
Samuel\u2019s voice hardened.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could\u2019ve ended that lie.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut you didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cNo.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/p>\n
Raymond answered with painful simplicity.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause by then I didn\u2019t know how to live without keeping something from everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n
The recording continued another minute.<\/p>\n
Samuel told Raymond he was done.<\/p>\n
He would gather evidence.<\/p>\n
He would expose Voss, Brenner, Mercer, and everyone else.<\/p>\n
Raymond warned him that systems protected themselves.<\/p>\n
Samuel replied, \u201cThen I\u2019ll make too many copies.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amber whispered, \u201cThat\u2019s where I got it.\u201d<\/p>\n
She had inherited the method from a brother she thought was dead without realizing it.<\/p>\n
Copies.<\/p>\n
Distributed evidence.<\/p>\n
No single person controlling the truth.<\/p>\n
Samuel had done what Raymond never could.<\/p>\n
He turned secrets outward instead of hoarding them.<\/p>\n
Then the recording ended with Raymond asking one question.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere will you go?\u201d<\/p>\n
Samuel answered:<\/p>\n
\u201cSomewhere you can\u2019t decide what happens to me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Silence.<\/p>\n
Harris switched off the recorder.<\/p>\n
Bentley opened his blue notebook.<\/p>\n
Under WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED, he wrote slowly.<\/p>\n
GRANDPA DIDN\u2019T SAVE SAMUEL.<\/p>\n
HE CHOSE FOR HIM.<\/p>\n
Then another line.<\/p>\n
SAMUEL LEFT ON HIS OWN.<\/p>\n
He stared at those sentences.<\/p>\n
Amber watched from the hospital.<\/p>\n
Elaine cried quietly from Oregon.<\/p>\n
Maddie slept on the couch.<\/p>\n
For the first time, the family\u2019s history was being written by somebody who had no interest in making Raymond look better or worse.<\/p>\n
Only accurate.<\/p>\n
Then Harris\u2019s phone rang.<\/p>\n
He answered.<\/p>\n
His posture changed immediately.<\/p>\n
\u201cYes?\u201d<\/p>\n
We watched him.<\/p>\n
\u201cConfirmed?\u201d<\/p>\n
A pause.<\/p>\n
\u201cSend it.\u201d<\/p>\n
He lowered the phone.<\/p>\n
Amber looked terrified.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris turned the screen toward us.<\/p>\n
Federal agents in Maine had located the man living as Micah Crawford.<\/p>\n
He had agreed to provide fingerprints.<\/p>\n
They matched Michael Collins.<\/p>\n
Amber covered her mouth.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlive?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her knees seemed to give even while sitting.<\/p>\n
Michael was alive.<\/p>\n
Another brother returned from the dead.<\/p>\n
Then Harris received a second message.<\/p>\n
His eyes moved across it.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat now?\u201d I asked.<\/p>\n
He looked at Amber.<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael says Samuel came to see him two years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n
Bentley leaned forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo Samuel was alive two years ago?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere is he now?\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris read the final line.<\/p>\n
Michael had last heard from Samuel six months earlier.<\/p>\n
Samuel said he had finally found the one piece of evidence Voss could never explain away.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat evidence?\u201d Doug asked.<\/p>\n
Harris looked at the message.<\/p>\n
\u201cA recording of Lewis Garner\u2019s death.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nobody spoke.<\/p>\n
The murder Samuel witnessed as a child had apparently been captured.<\/p>\n
And according to Michael, Samuel had hidden that recording before disappearing again.<\/p>\n
Bentley closed his notebook.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere?\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris shook his head.<\/p>\n
\u201cMichael says Samuel left one clue.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat?\u201d<\/p>\n
Harris read it aloud.<\/p>\n
GO BACK TO THE FIRST PLACE SOMEONE BELIEVED ME.<\/p>\n
I knew before anyone else did.<\/p>\n
Not Red Creek.<\/p>\n
Not Missouri.<\/p>\n
Not Maine.<\/p>\n
Ray Harper\u2019s garage.<\/p>\n
Evelyn answered my call with, \u201cWhat did Ray leave now?\u201d Even under the circumstances, I laughed. \u201cA key.\u201d She became quiet. \u201cWhat kind?\u201d \u201cSmall brass. Ray wrote \u2018Sam\u2019s bank box.\u2019\u201d … <\/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-7826","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\/7826","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=7826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7866,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826\/revisions\/7866"}],"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=7826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thechapterstory.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}