{"id":23666,"date":"2026-06-08T23:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/?p=23666"},"modified":"2026-06-08T23:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:10:24","slug":"at-my-divorce-hearing-the-judge-left-me-with-nothing-my-husband-and-his-mistress-thought-they-had-won-until-someone-walked-through-the-courtroom-doors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/?p=23666","title":{"rendered":"At my divorce hearing, the judge left me with nothing. My husband and his mistress thought they had won\u2014until someone walked through the courtroom doors."},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\"><strong style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"><em>The heavy oak gavel struck the block, and the crack echoed through the courtroom like a gunshot.<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>\u201cBased on the terms of the prenuptial agreement, which this court finds legally binding and executed without coercion, all marital assets, including the primary residence, liquid accounts, and corporate holdings, shall remain the sole property of the petitioner, Grant Sterling,\u201d Judge Bell announced, barely looking up from his papers. \u201cNo alimony is awarded. The respondent is ordered to vacate the residence by five o\u2019clock this evening.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-8\"><\/div>\n<p>I wrapped both trembling arms around my eight-month pregnant belly.<\/p>\n<p>Beneath my faded maternity dress, my unborn daughter shifted sharply against my ribs, her small frantic movements almost violent, as if she could sense the terror flooding my bloodstream.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\"><\/div>\n<p>The courtroom smelled of stale coffee, cheap floor wax, and defeat.<\/p>\n<p>I was twenty-four years old. I had no parents to call. I had grown up moving through state group homes, learning early that comfort was temporary and kindness usually came with a deadline. I had no savings because Grant had insisted I quit my junior copywriting job after we married. He said he wanted to take care of me.<\/p>\n<p>Now I was hours away from dragging my pregnant body into a women\u2019s shelter.<\/p>\n<p>Across the aisle, Grant leaned back in his leather chair, looking deeply satisfied. He wore a midnight-blue Italian suit that probably cost more than I had made in a year. He didn\u2019t look like a man destroying his family. He looked like a predator after a clean meal.<\/p>\n<p>Behind him sat Vanessa, his twenty-three-year-old former assistant and now very public mistress. She wore a cream designer dress and held a small handbag in her lap. Grant reached back and let his fingers brush her knee. Vanessa looked at me with soft, theatrical pity that barely covered her delight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCourt is adjourned,\u201d the judge said, already rising.<\/p>\n<p>My exhausted court-appointed attorney patted my shoulder and mumbled something about \u201cironclad contracts\u201d before hurrying out.<\/p>\n<p>I remained frozen in the chair.<\/p>\n<p>How was I going to eat tonight?<\/p>\n<p>How was I going to buy diapers?<\/p>\n<p>Grant stood, buttoned his jacket, and whispered something to his legal team that made them chuckle. Then he walked toward me.<\/p>\n<p>He stopped beside my table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, Maya,\u201d he murmured, his voice low and polished so only I could hear. \u201cI told you that you were nothing before you met me. A charity case I dressed up for dinners. Now the law agrees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I stared at my cheap shoes and bit the inside of my cheek until I tasted blood.<\/p>\n<p>He leaned close enough for me to smell the expensive cologne I had bought him two birthdays ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s see how you and your little bastard survive without my wallet,\u201d he whispered. \u201cI give you a week before you\u2019re sleeping in an alley, begging outside my office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then he stepped back, wrapped his arm around Vanessa\u2019s waist, and smiled like a man who had already won.<\/p>\n<p>I closed my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>One hot tear slipped down my cheek.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p>I prayed for the floor to open and swallow me.<\/p>\n<p>But the floor did not open.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the heavy double doors at the back of the courtroom exploded inward and slammed against the walls with a sound so violent that everyone turned.<\/p>\n<p>The bailiff jumped up. \u201cHey! Court is adjourned. You can\u2019t just\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His voice died.<\/p>\n<p>A man strode down the aisle with the terrifying calm of someone who had never once needed permission to enter a room.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Whitaker.<\/p>\n<p>The reclusive billionaire CEO of Meridian Global, an international conglomerate so powerful that its name appeared quietly behind defense contracts, shipping routes, energy companies, and half the financial architecture of the modern world.<\/p>\n<p>He was tall, broad-shouldered, and in his late fifties. A silver-tipped cane struck the floor with each measured step. His charcoal suit made Grant\u2019s expensive tailoring look suddenly cheap. Four men in dark suits and earpieces spread out behind him, silently blocking the exits. Two severe-looking lawyers carrying leather briefcases flanked his sides.<\/p>\n<p>The temperature in the room seemed to drop.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan ignored the judge\u2019s empty bench.<\/p>\n<p>He ignored the bailiff.<\/p>\n<p>He ignored Grant.<\/p>\n<p>His eyes locked on me.<\/p>\n<p>For one breath, his hard face softened. Something like grief cracked through the granite of his expression. His hand tightened around the cane.<\/p>\n<p>Then his gaze moved to Grant, and the softness vanished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithout you?\u201d Jonathan said.<\/p>\n<p>His voice was quiet, but it carried through the courtroom like thunder under the floorboards.<\/p>\n<p>He stepped between Grant and me, shielding me with his body.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter and my grandchild will live like royalty,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd you, you arrogant parasite, will be meaningless before the end of the fiscal quarter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grant\u2019s smile collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Whitaker?\u201d he stammered. \u201cSir, there must be a mistake. Maya is an orphan. She grew up in the state system. She has no family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClose your mouth before I purchase your company just to silence it,\u201d Jonathan snapped.<\/p>\n<p>One of his lawyers stepped forward and dropped a thick dossier onto the table.<\/p>\n<p>The gold lettering on the cover read:<\/p>\n<p>MAYA WHITAKER \u2014 DNA VERIFICATION: MATCH 99.9%.<\/p>\n<p>Grant stumbled backward.<\/p>\n<p>He looked at me, then at Jonathan, then at the file.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh my God,\u201d he whispered.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan ignored him. He lowered himself carefully to one knee beside my chair, leaning on his cane.<\/p>\n<p>I could not move. My brain could not absorb the divorce, the terror, the sudden arrival of this impossible man claiming me as blood.<\/p>\n<p>He did not try to hug me.<\/p>\n<p>He understood fear.<\/p>\n<p>His large, scarred hand hovered an inch above my belly without touching me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spent twenty-four years searching for the men who took you from your mother,\u201d he whispered, his blue eyes bright with tears he refused to shed. \u201cI spent billions looking through the dark. I am sorry I am late, little bird. But I am here now. And I swear on my life, no one will ever touch you again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A broken sob left my throat.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan stood and signaled his men. Two security officers gently helped me up, supporting my weight as we walked down the aisle.<\/p>\n<p>Grant and Vanessa stood frozen in the wreckage of their arrogance.<\/p>\n<p>Outside, a fleet of black armored SUVs waited at the curb. I was helped into the plush back seat of a Maybach.<\/p>\n<p>As the door began to close, I looked through the tinted window.<\/p>\n<p>Grant stood on the courthouse steps, furiously typing on his phone. The panic on his face was already changing. I knew that look. Calculation. Greed.<\/p>\n<p>He had realized that the unborn baby he had tried to discard was now connected to the Whitaker empire.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan\u2019s estate in Carmel Hills was not a house. It was a fortified compound hidden behind iron gates, cypress trees, stone walls, and security systems that seemed to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>For two weeks, I lived in a strange fog of luxury. I had a private wing, doctors monitoring my pregnancy, and a closet filled with silk maternity clothes I had not asked for.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan remained quiet and careful around me.<\/p>\n<p>Piece by piece, he explained my past.<\/p>\n<p>My mother, his first wife, had been taken by enemies connected to an old corporate war. She was killed, and I was sold through illegal networks before eventually being abandoned into the foster system under a false name. Bureaucracy buried me. Mistakes multiplied. Years vanished.<\/p>\n<p>He found me only because of a DNA screening required during my pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>But Grant was not the kind of man who accepted defeat.<\/p>\n<p>He could not fight Jonathan financially, so he turned to public sympathy. He used my unborn daughter as a weapon.<\/p>\n<p>I sat in Jonathan\u2019s library wrapped in a cashmere blanket, staring at a wall of monitors set up by Meridian\u2019s intelligence team.<\/p>\n<p>On one screen, Grant sat on a daytime talk show sofa, looking artfully exhausted. His hair was messy in precisely the way men arrange it when they want to look broken but handsome.<\/p>\n<p>The subtitle read:<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\"><\/div>\n<p>HEARTBROKEN HUSBAND FIGHTS BILLIONAIRE FAMILY FOR UNBORN CHILD.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI only want my wife back,\u201d Grant told the camera, voice cracking. \u201cI made mistakes. Business pressure changed me. But I love Maya, and I have a right to be present for the birth of my child. Her powerful new family is trying to erase me.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-8\"><\/div>\n<p>He had already abandoned Vanessa publicly, feeding her to the tabloids and recasting himself as the repentant husband of a suddenly wealthy wife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can silence him,\u201d Jonathan said from the doorway.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\"><\/div>\n<p>I turned.<\/p>\n<p>My father stood there with his cane, his eyes fixed on Grant\u2019s performance with lethal calm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne call,\u201d he said. \u201cHis firm loses licensing by noon. His accounts freeze. He disappears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A month earlier, Grant\u2019s performance would have terrified me. I would have believed everyone. I would have believed the cameras, the tears, the lies.<\/p>\n<p>But now, looking at the financial data scrolling across another monitor, I felt something different.<\/p>\n<p>Clarity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, Dad,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>The word Dad still felt heavy and new on my tongue.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan raised an eyebrow.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you crush him with Meridian\u2019s power, he becomes a victim,\u201d I said. \u201cHe\u2019ll claim the cruel billionaire stole his wife and child. He\u2019ll write a book. He\u2019ll collect sympathy. Men like Grant feed on attention, even when it\u2019s negative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I swiped a spreadsheet to the center monitor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis firm is overleveraged on the upcoming NovaCore acquisition. He needs fifty million dollars in bridge financing by Friday or his fund collapses. Investors panic. Regulators investigate. Everything burns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan stepped closer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd,\u201d I said, watching Grant fake tears on television, \u201cI want Meridian to be the anonymous syndicate offering that bridge loan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou want to save him?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d I said. \u201cI want him to think he has won. I want him to sign the agreement. I want him to put his personal assets, his penthouse, his cars, his firm, everything, up as collateral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My voice dropped.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t want you to build his gallows. I want him to build it himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p>The trap was set.<\/p>\n<p>Meridian\u2019s shell companies funneled the fifty million through blind trusts, giving Grant the lifeline he desperately needed.<\/p>\n<p>Late Thursday night, I sat in the library reviewing the final clauses of the contract he was scheduled to sign the next morning. Every paragraph had been sharpened into a blade.<\/p>\n<p>Then pain sliced across my abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>I gasped, dropping the stylus.<\/p>\n<p>Another contraction hit, tightening around my spine like iron.<\/p>\n<p>I wasn\u2019t due for three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Then I looked down and saw water spreading across the expensive rug beneath my chair.<\/p>\n<p>The baby was coming.<\/p>\n<p>And Grant was about to sign.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou need to be in the medical wing now,\u201d Dr. Monroe said in the foyer, her voice tight as she checked my vitals. \u201cYour contractions are five minutes apart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have an hour,\u201d I breathed, gripping the marble console as another contraction tore through me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaya,\u201d Jonathan growled, pacing with his cane, \u201cthis is madness. I will send the lawyers. You are going to the hospital.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d I snapped.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone froze.<\/p>\n<p>I forced myself upright.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe took my dignity in person. I am taking his life apart in person. Get the car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Forty-five minutes later, I stood outside the conference room at Grant\u2019s corporate headquarters downtown.<\/p>\n<p>I wore a tailored crimson maternity suit, my hair pulled into a severe knot. Pain radiated through my body, but fury held my spine straight.<\/p>\n<p>Through the glass wall, I saw Grant.<\/p>\n<p>He had just opened a bottle of champagne. His board was gathered around the table, laughing, clapping, celebrating.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the NovaCore acquisition,\u201d Grant said, raising his glass. \u201cAnd to the next billion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I did not knock.<\/p>\n<p>I pushed open the glass doors and walked in, flanked by Meridian lawyers and security.<\/p>\n<p>The laughter died.<\/p>\n<p>Grant turned.<\/p>\n<p>The color drained from his face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaya?\u201d he said. \u201cWhat are you doing here? The press said you were on bed rest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He glanced around, already preparing the concerned husband act.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHoney, you shouldn\u2019t be here. The baby\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo not take another step toward me,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>He stopped.<\/p>\n<p>I walked to the head of the table, breathing through a contraction, and placed my briefcase on the polished wood.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not here for a reunion, Mr. Sterling,\u201d I said. \u201cI am here as Vice President of Acquisitions for the Meridian Global shadow syndicate. I am officially calling in your fifty-million-dollar bridge loan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grant laughed, high and nervous.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou can\u2019t. The loan was funded an hour ago. The contract gives me five years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSection Four, Paragraph B,\u201d I said. \u201cImmediate forfeiture of leveraged collateral in the event of pre-existing, undisclosed fiduciary fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His mouth opened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFraud?\u201d he stammered. \u201cMy books are clean.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour books are fiction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I tossed another folder onto the table.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur accountants found the four million dollars you embezzled from client pension funds to pay Vanessa\u2019s debts and keep your lifestyle afloat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The boardroom erupted in whispers.<\/p>\n<p>Grant staggered back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou are in default,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n<p>I stepped closer, ignoring the knife of pain in my abdomen.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI own this firm. I own your penthouse. I own your cars. I own the leather chair you were sitting in. Based on the terms of your own greed, which my lawyers find legally binding, you walk away with nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His knees buckled.<\/p>\n<p>He grabbed the table, sobbing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaya, please. I\u2019ll go to jail. I\u2019m the father of your child. You can\u2019t do this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked down at him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s see how you survive without me,\u201d I said, giving him his own words back.<\/p>\n<p>I turned and walked away.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\"><\/div>\n<p>Behind me, two plainclothes federal agents entered the room and presented their badges.<\/p>\n<p>I made it halfway down the corridor before my body finally surrendered. A sharp cry tore from me as another rush of fluid spilled down my legs onto the marble floor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-8\"><\/div>\n<p>Meridian security swept me into their arms and rushed me toward the private elevator.<\/p>\n<p>Behind me, Grant screamed as handcuffs closed around his wrists.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-9\"><\/div>\n<p>Miles away, in a county holding cell, Grant sat under flickering fluorescent lights wearing an orange jumpsuit. His one phone call to Vanessa went to a disconnected number. His lawyers refused to represent him without a retainer he no longer had. His accounts were frozen, his reputation ruined, and the empire he had built on lies belonged to me.<\/p>\n<p>He had been swallowed by the nothingness he once promised me.<\/p>\n<p>My world was somewhere entirely different.<\/p>\n<p>The private maternity suite at St. Aurelia Medical Center smelled of lavender and sterile cotton. Sunlight poured across white walls and soft curtains.<\/p>\n<p>I lay against a mountain of pillows, exhausted beyond language, tears streaming down my face.<\/p>\n<p>On my chest rested my daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Tiny. Warm. Perfect.<\/p>\n<p>She had dark hair, soft breathing, and one small hand curled beneath her chin.<\/p>\n<p>The door opened.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan entered quietly.<\/p>\n<p>The ruthless titan of global industry looked undone. His tie was loose, his jacket gone, his eyes full.<\/p>\n<p>He approached the bed with reverence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s beautiful, Maya,\u201d he whispered.<\/p>\n<p>My daughter stirred. Jonathan reached one scarred finger toward her. She wrapped her tiny hand around it.<\/p>\n<p>A tear slipped down his face.<\/p>\n<p>In that little grip, I saw twenty-four years of grief begin to heal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer name is Lillian,\u201d I said softly. \u201cLillian Whitaker.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan looked at me.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cNo Sterling,\u201d I added. \u201cNo hyphen. Grant does not exist to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan nodded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe will have the world,\u201d he said. \u201cBoth of you will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in my life, I felt safe.<\/p>\n<p>But peace did not last untouched.<\/p>\n<p>A week later, I was back at the Carmel Hills estate, rocking Lillian in the nursery, when Bennett, Jonathan\u2019s head of security, knocked on the doorframe.<\/p>\n<p>He looked unsettled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMa\u2019am,\u201d he said, holding out a sealed manila envelope with gloved hands. \u201cThis was found on your bed. It bypassed the perimeter, the dogs, and the mail screening. We don\u2019t know how it got inside.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My heart thudded.<\/p>\n<p>I opened the envelope.<\/p>\n<p>Inside was a faded Polaroid.<\/p>\n<p>A toddler sitting on a swing set.<\/p>\n<p>Me.<\/p>\n<p>On the back, written in jagged black ink, were the words:<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan did not find you by accident. Ask him what he did to your mother.<\/p>\n<p>Five years later, the ballroom of The Grand Astoria in Boston was filled with politicians, executives, media moguls, and global elites.<\/p>\n<p>Yet when I stepped to the crystal podium, the room went silent.<\/p>\n<p>I was no longer the pregnant woman in a thrift-store dress trembling in a courtroom. I wore a tailored white suit, sharp enough to look like armor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTonight,\u201d I announced, \u201cthe Meridian Foundation is pledging fifty million dollars to establish the Phoenix Initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The cameras flashed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be an international legal and financial strike force dedicated to helping mothers and spouses escape abusive environments without being destroyed by the legal system.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I looked across the room.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one should be forced to stay because they fear walking away with nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>My voice hardened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be their sword. And we will be their armor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The room erupted into a standing ovation.<\/p>\n<p>I smiled, then stepped away from the podium and walked past reporters toward the VIP tables.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan stood in the shadows, older now but proud. Beside him was my five-year-old daughter in a dark blue velvet dress.<\/p>\n<p>Lillian ran toward me.<\/p>\n<p>I scooped her into my arms and held her tightly, breathing in her shampoo, her warmth, her life.<\/p>\n<p>Grant was a ghost. My intelligence team sent occasional updates. I rarely read them. He had been denied parole again. He was cleaning floors in a federal prison, forgotten by the world.<\/p>\n<p>His name no longer frightened me.<\/p>\n<p>That night, back in our penthouse suite, I tucked Lillian into her silk-canopied bed.<\/p>\n<p>She looked up at me with wide blue eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMommy,\u201d she whispered, clutching her stuffed bear, \u201ca girl at school said everyone has a daddy. She asked what mine does. Where is mine?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Once, that question would have broken me.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I felt only stillness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome people are stepping stones,\u201d I said softly, brushing hair from her forehead. \u201cThey teach us how to cross the mud without getting stuck in it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I kissed her cheek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou do not have a father, my love. You have a kingdom. And you have a mother who would burn the world to ash before letting anyone tell you that you are nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lillian smiled sleepily and closed her eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I turned off the lamp and stepped into the hallway.<\/p>\n<p>My encrypted phone vibrated.<\/p>\n<p>A priority message from Bennett appeared on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Target located in Zurich. The files on your mother\u2019s disappearance were in the vault, just as you suspected. Jonathan lied.<\/p>\n<p>I stared at the glowing words in the dark hallway.<\/p>\n<p>The mother in me went still.<\/p>\n<p>The CEO in me woke up.<\/p>\n<p>A new game was beginning in the shadows.<\/p>\n<p>But this time, I was not the frightened pawn waiting to be sacrificed.<\/p>\n<p>I was Maya Whitaker.<\/p>\n<p>And I was the one moving the pieces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The heavy oak gavel struck the block, and the crack echoed through the courtroom like a gunshot. \u201cBased on the terms of the prenuptial agreement, which this court finds legally &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,22,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family","category-inspiration","category-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23668,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23666\/revisions\/23668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readinstory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}