{"id":457,"date":"2026-10-27T14:23:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457"},"modified":"2026-10-27T14:23:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T14:23:20","slug":"the-video-my-mother-made-to-protect-her-lie-exposed-something-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457","title":{"rendered":"The Video My Mother Made to Protect Her Lie Exposed Something Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"

The officer did not ask us to watch the recording from the beginning. He started at the point where my mother was already standing beside the basin, with the phone positioned where it could see everything.<\/p>\n

My husband leaned forward.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

I stared at the table instead, gripping the edge so hard my fingers hurt. The baby was still in the hospital, being monitored for the injuries my mother had caused, and now we were being asked to watch evidence of what happened in our own home.<\/p>\n

The first few seconds were enough.<\/p>\n

There was no sudden accident. No moment where the basin slipped unexpectedly. No frantic attempt to help a struggling baby.<\/p>\n

My mother had prepared the scene.<\/p>\n

She had placed the phone where the basin remained visible. She had made sure the camera could capture the baby\u2019s condition. And while she worked, she spoke quietly to herself, as though she were organizing something that had already been decided.<\/p>\n

My husband watched the screen without blinking.<\/p>\n

Then the recording reached the part where he entered the room.<\/p>\n

The sound of his voice changed everything.<\/p>\n

He had heard the baby crying and rushed toward us. The image showed my mother reacting immediately when she realized he was taking the child away. What happened next was the moment I had remembered as chaos\u2014the overturned basin, the impact against the stone table, the baby falling to the floor.<\/p>\n

But on the video, it wasn\u2019t chaos.<\/p>\n

It was a sequence.<\/p>\n

A sequence that began before anyone else knew there was danger.<\/p>\n

The officer paused the recording.<\/p>\n

\u201cI need you to understand something,\u201d he said. \u201cThis is not just evidence of what happened to the child. It may establish what she intended to do before the injuries occurred.\u201d<\/p>\n

My husband finally looked at him.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe planned it?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re still determining exactly what we can prove. But the recording raises serious questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

I looked at the frozen image of my mother beside the basin.\n\nFor years, I had been the person who explained her behavior to everyone else.\n\nShe was difficult because she had been through a lot.\n\nShe was demanding because she wanted to protect me.\n\nShe asked too many questions because she worried about the family.\n\nWhenever she crossed a line, I moved the line.\n\nWhenever she hurt someone, I searched for the reason.\n\nAnd whenever she apologized, I treated the apology as proof that the person I loved was still underneath everything she had done.\n\nNow there was a recording.\n\nThere was no version of events I could soften for myself.\n\nThe officer turned off the phone.\n\nThen he asked a question that seemed almost unrelated.\n\n\u201cHas your mother ever asked about your insurance policy?\u201d\n\nMy husband and I exchanged another look.\n\n\u201cYes,\u201d I said.\n\nThe answer came out before I had time to think about it.\n\nShe had asked months earlier.\n\nAt first, I had barely noticed. She had wanted to know what the policy covered. She had asked whether newborn injuries were treated differently from ordinary accidents. She had wondered aloud about hospital bills and whether certain incidents could result in a larger payout.\n\nI had been annoyed by the questions.\n\nI had not been afraid of them.\n\nThat distinction suddenly felt unbearable.\n\nThe officer wrote down everything we could remember.\n\nThen he asked whether she had ever mentioned taking photographs after an accident.\n\nMy husband answered this time.\n\n\u201cShe talked about documentation. She said insurance companies needed proof.\u201d\n\nThe officer nodded.\n\n\u201cDid she ever ask who would receive the money?\u201d\n\nNeither of us spoke.\n\nBecause we remembered.\n\nShe had.\n\nNot directly. Not in a way that sounded suspicious at the time. She had asked questions about how claims were paid and whether the policyholder had control over the money.\n\nI had dismissed it as another one of her intrusive conversations.\n\nNow those conversations were being placed beside the video.\n\nThe officer closed his notebook.\n\n\u201cThere is one more issue.\u201d\n\nMy stomach tightened.\n\n\u201cWhat?\u201d\n\n\u201cShe has already given investigators a statement.\u201d\n\nMy husband frowned.\n\n\u201cWhat did she say?\u201d\n\nThe officer looked at him before answering.\n\n\u201cShe says you became aggressive, rushed into the room, and caused the basin to overturn.\u201d\n\nFor a second, I couldn\u2019t understand the words.\n\nThen I realized what my mother was doing.\n\nShe was trying to move the blame.\n\n\u201cShe said my husband hurt the baby?\u201d I asked.\n\n\u201cShe says her actions were an attempt to protect the child after you became unstable.\u201d\n\nMy husband stood so quickly that his chair scraped the floor.\n\n\u201cShe knows that\u2019s a lie.\u201d\n\nThe officer didn\u2019t argue.\n\nHe simply said, \u201cThat\u2019s why the recording matters.\u201d\n\nMy husband sat back down.\n\nI could feel him shaking beside me.\n\nBut the most frightening part wasn\u2019t that my mother had lied.\n\nShe had lied before.\n\nThe frightening part was how quickly she had created a new version of reality after the first one stopped working.\n\nShe had been caught on video.\n\nSo she changed the story.\n\nAnd suddenly I understood something I had never wanted to admit.\n\nMy mother didn\u2019t need me to believe her because the truth was convincing.\n\nShe needed me to believe her because I had spent years protecting her from consequences.\n\nThat night, the police told us they were continuing their investigation. The baby would remain under medical observation, and they needed additional records from the hospital. They also wanted the insurance information and any communications in which my mother had discussed the policy, the baby\u2019s injuries, or a potential claim.\n\nI went home with my husband after midnight.\n\nThe house was quiet.\n\nToo quiet.\n\nThe basin was gone. The clothes had been removed. The floor had been cleaned. But the room still felt wrong.\n\nMy husband stopped at the doorway.\n\nNeither of us wanted to go inside.\n\nThen he noticed something on the counter.\n\nA small notebook.\n\nMy mother had left it behind.\n\nHe reached for it, then stopped.\n\n\u201cDon\u2019t touch it.\u201d\n\nI called the officer instead.\n\nHe told us not to disturb anything that might be relevant.\n\nWhile we waited, I stood there looking at the notebook.\n\nIt wasn\u2019t dramatic.\n\nIt wasn\u2019t hidden.\n\nIt was just an ordinary notebook with a worn cover, the kind my mother used for grocery lists, reminders, and appointments.\n\nBut now every ordinary object in that room felt different.\n\nWhen the officer arrived, he photographed it before opening it.\n\nThe first pages were exactly what I expected.\n\nShopping lists.\n\nPhone numbers.\n\nAppointments.\n\nNotes about family birthdays.\n\nThen he reached a later page.\n\nHe stopped.\n\nMy husband stepped closer.\n\nI didn\u2019t move.\n\nThe officer read the page silently, then looked at us.\n\n\u201cThis may be important.\u201d\n\nMy heart started pounding.\n\n\u201cWhat is it?\u201d\n\nHe turned the notebook so we could see.\n\nThere were several dates written down.\n\nBeside them were short notes about the baby, the insurance policy, and amounts of money.\n\nNot a completed claim.\n\nNot a payment.\n\nSomething earlier.\n\nSomething that suggested my mother had been thinking about the possibility of an insurance payout before the day she hurt the baby.\n\nMy husband stared at the page.\n\n\u201cShe planned this before today.\u201d\n\nThe officer corrected him carefully.\n\n\u201cIt suggests prior planning. We\u2019ll need to establish what these notes mean and when they were written.\u201d\n\nI felt cold.\n\nBecause one of the dates was weeks earlier.\n\nBefore the baby had ever been injured.\n\nBefore my mother had ever claimed there was an accident.\n\nBefore I had any reason to suspect that she saw my child as anything other than her grandchild.\n\nI put my hand over my mouth.\n\nMy husband took my other hand.\n\nNeither of us spoke.\n\nThe officer photographed the page and continued through the notebook.\n\nA few pages later, he found another note.\n\nThis one was shorter.\n\nIt referred to photographs.\n\nThen another mentioned making the injuries \u201clook serious enough.\u201d\n\nI closed my eyes.\n\nThe room seemed to tilt.\n\nThere are moments when fear is loud.\n\nThis wasn\u2019t one of them.\n\nThis was quieter.\n\nIt was the moment when a person you have known your entire life becomes someone you can no longer recognize.\n\nI thought about every time my mother had held my baby.\n\nEvery time I had left the room because I trusted her.\n\nEvery time she had told me she knew what was best.\n\nEvery time I had felt guilty for questioning her.\n\nI had thought my biggest mistake was letting her cross too many boundaries.\n\nNow I understood that my mistake had been assuming boundaries were the only thing at stake.\n\nThe officer closed the notebook.\n\n\u201cWe\u2019ll take this as evidence.\u201d\n\nI nodded.\n\nThen my phone rang.\n\nIt was the hospital.\n\nFor one terrible second, I thought something had happened to the baby.\n\nI answered immediately.\n\nThe nurse told me the baby was stable.\n\nThe injuries were serious, but the doctors were continuing treatment and observation. The swelling around the eyes had begun to improve slightly.\n\nI nearly collapsed with relief.\n\nThen the nurse added something else.\n\nA hospital social worker wanted to speak with us.\n\nThere had been another concern.\n\nSomeone had called the hospital asking for information about the baby\u2019s condition.\n\nThe caller had claimed to be a relative.\n\nThe hospital had refused to provide details.\n\nI knew immediately who it was.\n\nMy mother.\n\nShe had been removed from our home.\n\nThe police had her phone.\n\nYet she was still trying to find out how badly the baby was injured.\n\nMy husband looked at me.\n\n\u201cWhy would she need to know?\u201d\n\nI didn\u2019t have an answer.\n\nBut I thought about the recording.\n\nThe photographs.\n\nThe insurance questions.\n\nThe notebook.\n\nAnd the fact that she had already changed her story.\n\nThen I remembered something else.\n\nMy mother had reached for her phone before she reached for the baby.\n\nAt the time, I had thought she was trying to call someone.\n\nNow I knew she had been trying to preserve the evidence she believed would make her plan work.\n\nShe had expected the injuries to tell a story.\n\nShe had not expected the camera to tell the truth about how they happened.\n\nThe next morning, the investigator called again.\n\nHe said they had found more material on the phone.\n\nNot just the recording from our house.\n\nThere were messages.\n\nThere were searches.\n\nThere were conversations about insurance claims.\n\nAnd there was one message sent shortly before my mother arrived at our home that morning.\n\nThe investigator said he needed us to come in and see it.\n\nI asked who had sent it.\n\nHe went quiet for a moment.\n\nThen he gave me a name.\n\nIt wasn\u2019t my mother\u2019s.\n\nAnd it wasn\u2019t a stranger\u2019s.\"\"\n\nIt was someone I knew.\n\nSomeone who had been in our home before.\n\nSomeone who had held my newborn in their arms.\n\nMy husband looked at me as I listened.\n\nI couldn\u2019t speak.\n\nBecause suddenly the question was no longer whether my mother had planned what happened.\n\nThe question was how many people had known about the plan before she walked into our house with that basin.\n\nAnd whether the person behind that message had expected my mother to succeed.\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The officer did not ask us to watch the recording from the beginning. He started at the point where my mother was already standing beside the basin, with the phone … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-drama-stories"],"yoast_head":"\nThe Video My Mother Made to Protect Her Lie Exposed Something Worse - Reading Times<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Video My Mother Made to Protect Her Lie Exposed Something Worse - Reading Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The officer did not ask us to watch the recording from the beginning. He started at the point where my mother was already standing beside the basin, with the phone …\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Reading Times\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-10-27T14:23:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/814127651_1094501236374876_7897669144564517446_n.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1080\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Reading Times Admin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Reading Times Admin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/?p=457#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/?p=457\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Reading Times Admin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5cae4f37471ce82bf85ad41de2e3109d\"},\"headline\":\"The Video My Mother Made to Protect Her Lie Exposed Something Worse\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-10-27T14:23:20+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/?p=457\"},\"wordCount\":347,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/?p=457#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/814127651_1094501236374876_7897669144564517446_n.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Family Drama Stories\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/?p=457\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/?p=457\",\"name\":\"The Video My Mother Made to Protect Her Lie Exposed Something Worse - Reading Times\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/?p=457#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/?p=457#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/814127651_1094501236374876_7897669144564517446_n.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-10-27T14:23:20+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5cae4f37471ce82bf85ad41de2e3109d\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/?p=457#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/?p=457\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/?p=457#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/814127651_1094501236374876_7897669144564517446_n.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2026\\\/10\\\/814127651_1094501236374876_7897669144564517446_n.jpg\",\"width\":1080,\"height\":1350},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/?p=457#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Video My Mother Made to Protect Her Lie Exposed Something Worse\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/\",\"name\":\"Reading Times\",\"description\":\"The Best Family Drama Stories Telling\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/5cae4f37471ce82bf85ad41de2e3109d\",\"name\":\"Reading Times Admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/62edd62ba20ff63cad9a09a957f2266f6d1b738c997137e7da9487a3b3dbba94?s=96&d=initials&r=g&initials=km\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/62edd62ba20ff63cad9a09a957f2266f6d1b738c997137e7da9487a3b3dbba94?s=96&d=initials&r=g&initials=km\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/62edd62ba20ff63cad9a09a957f2266f6d1b738c997137e7da9487a3b3dbba94?s=96&d=initials&r=g&initials=km\",\"caption\":\"Reading Times Admin\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/readingtimes.online\\\/?author=1\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Video My Mother Made to Protect Her Lie Exposed Something Worse - Reading Times","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Video My Mother Made to Protect Her Lie Exposed Something Worse - Reading Times","og_description":"The officer did not ask us to watch the recording from the beginning. He started at the point where my mother was already standing beside the basin, with the phone …","og_url":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457","og_site_name":"Reading Times","article_published_time":"2026-10-27T14:23:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1080,"height":1350,"url":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/814127651_1094501236374876_7897669144564517446_n.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Reading Times Admin","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Reading Times Admin","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457"},"author":{"name":"Reading Times Admin","@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/#\/schema\/person\/5cae4f37471ce82bf85ad41de2e3109d"},"headline":"The Video My Mother Made to Protect Her Lie Exposed Something Worse","datePublished":"2026-10-27T14:23:20+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457"},"wordCount":347,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/814127651_1094501236374876_7897669144564517446_n.jpg","articleSection":["Family Drama Stories"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457","url":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457","name":"The Video My Mother Made to Protect Her Lie Exposed Something Worse - Reading Times","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/814127651_1094501236374876_7897669144564517446_n.jpg","datePublished":"2026-10-27T14:23:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/#\/schema\/person\/5cae4f37471ce82bf85ad41de2e3109d"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/814127651_1094501236374876_7897669144564517446_n.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/814127651_1094501236374876_7897669144564517446_n.jpg","width":1080,"height":1350},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?p=457#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Video My Mother Made to Protect Her Lie Exposed Something Worse"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/#website","url":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/","name":"Reading Times","description":"The Best Family Drama Stories Telling","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/#\/schema\/person\/5cae4f37471ce82bf85ad41de2e3109d","name":"Reading Times Admin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62edd62ba20ff63cad9a09a957f2266f6d1b738c997137e7da9487a3b3dbba94?s=96&d=initials&r=g&initials=km","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62edd62ba20ff63cad9a09a957f2266f6d1b738c997137e7da9487a3b3dbba94?s=96&d=initials&r=g&initials=km","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62edd62ba20ff63cad9a09a957f2266f6d1b738c997137e7da9487a3b3dbba94?s=96&d=initials&r=g&initials=km","caption":"Reading Times Admin"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/readingtimes.online"],"url":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/?author=1"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459,"href":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/readingtimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}