{"id":2426402,"date":"2025-04-23T10:38:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/female-student-tearfully-recounts-horror-encounter-with-trans-athlete-board-chairwoman-spits-back-sick-reply\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:41:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T14:41:32","slug":"female-student-tearfully-recounts-horror-encounter-with-trans-athlete-board-chairwoman-spits-back-sick-reply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/female-student-tearfully-recounts-horror-encounter-with-trans-athlete-board-chairwoman-spits-back-sick-reply\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Student Tearfully Recounts Horror Encounter with Trans Athlete, Board Chairwoman Spits Back Sick Reply"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffemale-student-tearfully-recounts-horror-encounter-with-trans-athlete-board-chairwoman-spits-back-sick-reply%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2426402&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The summary discusses a recent event at a school board meeting in California, where a 17-year-old student, Celeste Diest, addressed the board about her traumatic experience in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/teen-unloads-on-virginia-school-board-your-proposed-policies-are-dangerous-and-rooted-in-sexism\/\" title=\"Teen Unloads On Virginia ... ...: \u2018Your Proposed Policies Are Dangerous And Rooted In Sexism\u2019\">girls&#8217; locker room<\/a>, where she felt uncomfortable due too the presence of a transgender athlete. While she passionately shared her story, the chairwoman of the board, Colleen Martin, interrupted her, urging her to &#8220;wrap it up,&#8221; which sparked a strong reaction from the audience. The meeting highlighted a divided community, wiht some supporting the inclusion of transgender individuals in women&#8217;s spaces and others opposing it. Despite the chairwoman&#8217;s attempts to dismiss diest&#8217;s concerns, the crowd showed their support for her, reflecting a broader dissatisfaction with progressive policies regarding gender identity in schools. The article notes that public sentiment leans toward protecting women&#8217;s spaces, and even Democratic leaders are beginning to show awareness of this divide. The situation underscores the complexities of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-the-media-proclaim-themselves-infrastructure\/\" title=\"GRAHAM: The Media Proclaim Themselves \u2018Infrastructure\u2019\">school board decisions<\/a> and the tensions between progressive values and the concerns raised by students and parents.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Liberals love to listen to &ldquo;the children,&rdquo; until what they say destroys the progressive plans.<\/p>\n<p>That was on stark display at a school board meeting last week in a coastal California county north of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>When a young girl literally broke down in tears addressing the school, the reaction she got from the school board chairwoman was outrageous. But the response from the crowd was sensational.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanluisobispo.com\/news\/local\/education\/article304681556.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported Tuesday<\/a> by the The Tribune of San Louis Obispo County, Celeste Diest, a 17-year-old student in the Lucia Mar Unified School District, took the podium April 15 to recount her experience being ogled while changing in a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">high school girls locker room &#038;mdash<\/a>; by a leering &ldquo;transgender&rdquo; athlete who is a boy.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I went into the women&rsquo;s locker room to change for track practice where I saw, at the end of my row, a biological male watching not only myself, but the other young women undress. This experience was beyond traumatizing,&rdquo; Diest said.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Midway through the girl&rsquo;s speech, chairwoman Colleen Martin cut in with five words that were clearly aimed at dismissing not only the Diest&rsquo;s emotion, but the content of her speech as well.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;OK, please wrap it up,&rdquo; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video here, and watch to the end of Celeste&rsquo;s comments &mdash; it&rsquo;s more than worth it to see the crowd roaring its approval of Diest &mdash; and defying Martin&rsquo;s attempt to gavel them into silence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/87bN69dvvW8?si=p_iusHfrTfSlqv49\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>What&rsquo;s especially interesting about the debate is not only how closely divided the community was &mdash; 11 speakers supported &ldquo;transgenders&rdquo; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nolte-as-donald-trump-predicted-thomas-jefferson-removed-from-ny-city-hall\/\" title=\"Nolte: As Donald Trump Predicted, Thomas Jefferson Removed from NY City Hall\">girls locker rooms<\/a> while 14 were against, according to The Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>The country, of course, is overwhelmingly opposed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/parents-speak-daughter-suffers-life-altering-injury-playing-volleyball-transgender-opponent\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">opening women&rsquo;s sports<\/a> and intimate places to men. The utterly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/watch-transgender-ncaa-volleyball-player-sends-opponent-floor-vicious-shot-head\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">predictable dangers<\/a> are obvious to anyone with a shred of honesty.<\/p>\n<p>In January, as the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/01\/19\/us-news\/nyt-poll-finds-majority-of-democrats-oppose-transgender-athletes-in-womens-sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Post<\/a> reported, a New York Times\/Ipsos poll found that 79 percent of Americans as a whole support women&rsquo;s sports being reserved for women &mdash; even <em>67 of Democrats<\/em> agreed.<\/p>\n<p>Even California&rsquo;s lefty Gov. Gavin Newsom is pretending <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cultural-tipping-point-top-dem-now-admits-unfair-trans-athletes-compete-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">he&rsquo;s seen the light<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But Democratic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/riley-gaines-enrages-dem-congresswoman-rebuttal-bigotry-allegation-sending-hearing-chaos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">leaders are plowing on<\/a>, with the mindless determination to support progressive policies despite the clear evidence &mdash; most obvious in President Donald Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/just-became-official-trump-swept-major-swing-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">overwhelming election victory<\/a> in November &mdash; that sane Americans do not want men who pretend to be women competing against women or having the ability to enter their private spaces.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s also interesting that, according to The Tribune, the school board shortened the time each speaker had to speak at the podium &mdash; from three minutes to one minute.<\/p>\n<p>This was reportedly so the board could follow its bylaws and end the meeting by 10 p.m. Sure, that might have been true. It&rsquo;s also true that board members could unanimously have voted to extend the meeting if they&rsquo;d chosen, according to The Tribune.<\/p>\n<p>But that would no doubt have involved listening to yet more children &mdash; the group that Democrats worship until its members arrive at sane, logical decisions that eviscerate Democratic propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>Now, it&rsquo;s true that Martin&rsquo;s political affiliation isn&rsquo;t mentioned by The Tribune report. And Lucia Mar school district board members are elected on a non-partisan basis, according to the election news website <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Lucia_Mar_Unified_School_District,_California,_elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ballotpedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She was re-elected in 2022 with 57 percent of the vote, according to the county clerk-recorder office. That was in the midst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slocounty.ca.gov\/departments\/clerk-recorder\/forms-documents\/elections-and-voting\/past-elections\/general-elections\/2022-11-08-gubernatorial-general\/reports-and-results\/final-official-election-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">of a ballot<\/a> that presented almost a mind-numbing number of candidates and races.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s fair enough, and a win fair and square is a win fair and square. But it&rsquo;s also fair to say that the vote probably wasn&rsquo;t a real representation of <em>any<\/em> board member&rsquo;s actual community support.<\/p>\n<p>But the fact that she was forced in 2021 to face a recall vote &mdash; along with two other board members &mdash; over the board&rsquo;s unwillingness to re-open schools during the COVID pandemic gives some idea of what party philosophy she backs.<\/p>\n<p>The effort failed when organizers could not gather enough petition signatures in time, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksby.com\/news\/local-news\/lucia-mar-school-board-recall-petitions-fail-to-qualify-for-ballot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KSBY<\/a> in San Obispo.<\/p>\n<p>Martin might have shut down Celeste Diest on Thursday. She might have survived a recall election four years ago. But the basic discontent of American voters, young and old, men and women, black and white, with the progressive agenda is only strengthening &mdash; and growing.<\/p>\n<p>(Even the Euro-libs in the U.K. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/huge-trans-defeat-high-court-unanimously-rules-men-not-women\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are getting the message<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s important to note here that membership on a school board could well be the most important &mdash; and most thankless &mdash; job in American politics.<\/p>\n<p>As is well known to anyone who&rsquo;s served on a school board, covered a school board for a newspaper, or even attended meetings regularly, it&rsquo;s a complicated job, it requires time and effort almost certainly beyond its compensation, and it&rsquo;s a given someone will always be unhappy with the board&rsquo;s actions &mdash; sometimes very unhappy, as the crowd was here.<\/p>\n<p>But it&rsquo;s also important to note that Democrats and the left have successfully <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mom-catches-school-board-giving-bdsm-lit-kindergartners-ask-startling-question\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">injected the poison<\/a> of their beliefs into the country&rsquo;s education systems, through those self-same boards.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats want the children to lead the way until children reject everything Democrats stand for,&nbsp;with science, with logic and with emotion.<\/p>\n<p>Like Celeste Diest did last week.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I implore all of you to put an end to this current injustice,&rdquo; she told the board early in her speech.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s really not a lot to ask.<\/p>\n<p>And the leftists are going to have to listen.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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This was evident at a recent school board meeting in a coastal California county north of Los Angeles. A young girl became emotional while speaking, and the response from the school board chairwoman was shocking. However, the audience&#8217;s reaction was overwhelmingly supportive. According to The Tribune of San Luis Obispo County, 17-year-old Celeste Diest shared her distressing experience of being watched by a biological male in her high school&#8217;s girls&#8217; locker room while changing for track practice. She described it as &#8220;beyond traumatizing.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>During her speech, Chairwoman Colleen Martin interrupted with dismissive remarks: \u201cOK, please wrap it up.\u201d The crowd&#8217;s enthusiastic support for Diest defied Martin\u2019s attempts to silence them.<\/p>\n<p>The community&#8217;s division on this issue was notable; 11 speakers supported allowing transgender individuals in girls&#8217; locker rooms while 14 opposed it, as reported by The Tribune. Nationally, there is significant opposition to allowing men who identify as women into women&#8217;s sports and private spaces\u201479% of Americans favor keeping women&#8217;s sports exclusive to women according to a New York Times\/Ipsos poll.<\/p>\n<p>Even California Governor Gavin Newsom seems to be acknowledging this sentiment. Yet Democratic leaders continue pushing progressive policies despite clear evidence that many Americans reject them\u2014evident from President Trump&#8217;s electoral success.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the school board reduced each speaker&#8217;s time from three minutes to one minute under the pretext of adhering to bylaws and ending meetings promptly at 10 p.m., although they could have chosen otherwise if they wanted more input from students like Diest.<\/p>\n<p>While Chairwoman Martin\u2019s political affiliation wasn\u2019t specified in The Tribune report and Lucia Mar district elections are non-partisan according to Ballotpedia, she faced a recall vote in 2021 due partly to dissatisfaction over COVID-related school closures\u2014a sign that not all constituents may support her views now.<\/p>\n<p>Despite attempts by officials like Martin to suppress dissenting voices like Celeste Diest\u2019s during public meetings, discontent with progressive agendas continues growing among voters across demographics. School boards play crucial yet often thankless roles in American politics; however, Democrats have infused their ideologies into educational systems through these boards\u2014until children begin rejecting those beliefs based on reasoned arguments and emotions\u2014as demonstrated by Celeste last week when she urged an end to perceived injustices within schools<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2426403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Celeste.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[53916,42534,39323],"class_list":["post-2426402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-female-student","tag-school-board","tag-trans-athlete"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Celeste.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2426402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2426406,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2426402\/revisions\/2426406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2426403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2426402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2426402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2426402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}