DOMINIQUE MALONGA SETTLES her 6-foot-6 frame into a chair in a Brooklyn hotel on a hot July 4 evening. The Seattle Storm rookie is fresh off a practice at Barclays Center after arriving in New York from Atlanta that afternoon.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a moment of calm. The 19-year-old, who played four seasons of professional basketball in Europe, became the youngest player ever drafted by the Storm when they chose her with the No. 2 pick in April. Her height and agility drew comparisons to French countryman Victor Wembanyama. She moved 5,000 miles from Nanterre to Seattle in May. She dunked in her first practice. Praise poured in.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s a unicorn. One of one,\u201d Storm coach Noelle Quinn said. \u201cShe\u2019s going to be a star,\u201d teammate Gabby Williams said. There was consensus among the Storm: Just you wait.<\/p>\n
But Dominique Malonga was sent to the bench. And mostly stayed there. Through her first 18 games, she averaged 4.4 points and 2.3 rebounds in 9.1 minutes. The night before, she went scoreless against the Dream as Nneka Ogwumike and Ezi Magbegor hoarded the minutes in the paint.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s frustrating, for sure,\u201d Malonga tells me.<\/p>\n
Emotion acknowledged, she moves on. She refuses to linger in the gloom. \u201cNever have this negative faith or negative mood that can affect the team or the bench,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s not what I want to bring.\u201d<\/p>\n
She tells me how she claps from the sideline and zeroes in on Ogwumike and Magbegor. How can she do what they\u2019re doing better?<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to breathe that energy,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
She yearns to turn the expectations into something concrete. She\u2019s watching film. She\u2019s learning the intricacies of American basketball. She\u2019s training harder than ever.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not a dreamer,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m a realist.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the WNBA season turned to its second act, Malonga delivered with a flurry of head-turning performances. She became the youngest player in league history with 100 field goals. The youngest player to record a double-double. Youngest player to score 300 points. Youngest player to post back-to-back 20-point and 10-rebound games.<\/p>\n
But even as Malonga\u2019s milestones mounted, the Storm struggled down the stretch. With their playoff hopes in jeopardy, it was Malonga who jumped in from the bench and lifted the team with her size, smarts, speed and energy.<\/p>\n
In the 20 regular-season games she played after the All-Star break, she had a team-high four double-doubles. She averaged 11.4 points, a team-best 6.7 rebounds and 1.3 blocks in 20.3 minutes per game. She shot 57.6% from the field, which ranked top 10 in the league. \u201cI love playing with her,\u201d point guard Skylar Diggins says. \u201cI\u2019m glad to see her thrive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Two months ago, it would have been impossible to predict that Seattle\u2019s playoff hopes would land on the shoulders of a 19-year-old rookie who struggled to find her way in the grocery store, let alone on the basketball court. But one thing became clear during the regular season\u2019s final weeks.<\/p>\n
The Storm need Malonga to keep their title hopes alive. Never has that been more true than today. After getting blown out by the Aces in Game 1 of their best-of-three first-round playoff series in Las Vegas, Seattle needs a win on Tuesday at home or its season is over. Malonga scored 12 points and had 11 rebounds on Sunday night, but she struggled with the Aces\u2019 pace and physicality. The Storm need Malonga now. They need the promise of the past decade to come to pass.<\/p>\n
Outside Malonga\u2019s Brooklyn hotel room, the fireworks are about to begin.<\/p>\n
MALONGA STANDS UP from her chair, a soft smile on her face. The crowd at The Shed at Hudson Yards — an arts center in the heart of New York City where the 2025 WNBA draft is being held — erupts into applause and the cameras zoom in on her.<\/p>\n
Malonga feels a strange calmness. Like there is no question that she is supposed to be here: the youngest top-two draft pick in WNBA history.<\/p>\n
Her black Louis Vuitton suit is perfectly tailored and her large Sabine Be glasses — transparent and chunky — glint under the auditorium\u2019s bright lights. Her table is packed with family members — her father and older sister to her right, her younger brothers to her left. But she looks to the back of the auditorium, where her mother sits, and walks over to her. Agathe beams as Dominique, without uttering a word, wraps her arms around her.<\/p>\n
\u201cJe suis fier de toi,\u201d Agathe whispers in Dominique\u2019s right ear. I am proud of you. <\/p>\n
Dominique walks back to the table and daps up her brothers and hugs her sister before enveloping her dad in a tight hug.<\/p>\n
Propped up on the table are the flags of three countries: Congo, Cameroon and France.<\/p>\n
She made sure her family brought all three flags to one of the most important nights of her career in a country where she hopes she will dazzle.<\/p>\n
She walks up to the stage and receives a Seattle Storm jersey from WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert.<\/p>\n
\u201cI come from a long journey,\u201d she tells ESPN\u2019s Holly Rowe in a TV interview. \u201cMy family is here and they are witnesses to the work I\u2019ve put in to be here today.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am happy to be representing France, but also Cameroon and Congo. I am a multicultural person. I have a lot of people behind me, and I am so proud to be here representing all of them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her sister, Talancia, looks at their father and they share a smile. Goose bumps form on Talancia\u2019s arms.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe tend to forget, there is so much diamond in the rough in the motherland,\u201d Talancia says.<\/p>\n
THE STORM TAKE the court for pregame warmups ahead of their 2025 season opener in Phoenix. The stands are mostly empty. From the arc, Malonga dribbles once, steps with her right, then with her left. She raises her right arm above her head and throws down a dunk.<\/p>\n
She goes to the bench. Coach Quinn sends her into the game midway through the first quarter. Seattle trails by five. The Storm are down 14 when she scores her first WNBA points, a layup on a Diggins assist.<\/p>\n
She returns to the bench until 4:02 remains in the game. Seattle trails by 21. She picks up a foul with about two minutes to go. Seattle trails by 25.<\/p>\n
The buzzer sounds on her WNBA debut.<\/p>\n
WEARING A GRAY sweatshirt with \u201cWNBA\u201d printed in orange on the side, Malonga plops into a chair on the front patio of her new Seattle apartment. She places her laptop on the coffee table in front of her. She plugs in her earbuds and logs onto Zoom. It\u2019s a cloudy May morning in Seattle — two weeks since the start of the WNBA season — and Malonga has signed up to be a mentor for Voice in Sport, an organization focused on advancing gender equity in sports.<\/p>\n
On her Zoom screen are 60 middle school girls from a basketball club in France. Malonga smiles and waves and the girls smile back. She\u2019s running a session on self-confidence today.<\/p>\n
She introduces herself and tells the girls that she picked the topic because much like everybody else, she struggles with self-confidence from time to time and has had to work hard to change the narrative in her head.<\/p>\n
Speaking in French, she launches into her life story.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy early years were driven by one mantra: If you don\u2019t excel at what you do, don\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
As a young girl, Malonga was far more interested in books than baskets. She loved the process of learning and dreamed of going to college in America. Her father, Thalance, who played on the Republic of Congo\u2019s national team and became a politician and then a doctor, instilled the values of discipline and hard work in his four children. Dominique woke up at 5 a.m., made her bed, studied before school and learned from a tutor after school.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we don\u2019t work hard,\u201d Talancia says, \u201cit feels weird, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
Agathe, who represented Cameroon in international play as a 6-foot-3 old-school center, remembers her daughter working hard even before birth. Agathe played until she was five months pregnant, and she recalls Dominique kicking in her womb almost every time she made a basket, as if it was her way of contributing. After Agathe retired, she ran a basketball club. Sometimes, after Dominique was done studying for the night, she made her way to her mom\u2019s club, mostly to be around her as she coached other kids.<\/p>\n
When Dominique turned 10, the family moved to France because Thalance figured that was where his kids could shine. He set up his medical practice in Nanterre, a suburb of Paris. When Dominique was 12 — and 6-foot-1 — Thalance and Agathe signed her up for basketball at a club in Paris called Mont Val\u00e9rien. Coach Jean-Christophe N\u2019Zambi watched her in disbelief. She was so agile and so fast. She could dribble with both hands, and dribble to the right and to the left.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn exceptional case,\u201d N\u2019Zambi says.<\/p>\n
N\u2019Zambi rejected the idea of sticking her in the paint because of her size. He saw her athleticism and skill and knew he needed to nurture it all.<\/p>\n
N\u2019Zambi remembers watching his team goof around one day after practice when Dominique was 13. She grabbed the ball, dribbled to the basket, lifted off with the ball in her right hand and — with the grace of a ballerina — dunked it into the basket.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy talent — it\u2019s nothing compared to Dominique\u2019s,\u201d Agathe says. \u201cI had to work really hard to create the little opportunities I had, but Dominique\u2019s potential, her IQ, her skills … they\u2019re immeasurable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former NBA player Tony Parker saw Malonga for the first time when she was 15. She was 6-foot-4 and training at the National Institute of Sport, Expertise and Performance (INSEP). Parker, president of ASVEL F\u00e9minin, a team in the French women\u2019s basketball league, introduced himself to her parents. \u201cIt\u2019s like she\u2019s playing with children,\u201d they remember him saying. He told them she was ready to turn pro and urged them to send her to ASVEL.<\/p>\n
Malonga was torn. She dreamed of studying computer science at Harvard or MIT or Stanford. That way she could still play NCAA basketball. But Parker\u2019s offer was too good to pass up. At 15, Malonga turned pro.<\/p>\n
She had been playing the game for five years when she started sharing a court with the best players in France. Her inexperience showed, and at first she spent most games on the bench. She wondered if she should have stayed a kid longer. She worried she wasn\u2019t ready yet.<\/p>\n
What helped her most during that time was focusing on the process. She told herself the coaches would have no choice but to give her a shot if she kept improving. So she poured her energy into figuring out the movement and flow of the game and working on her skills.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you coach her, she looks at you in the eyes, she shows you that she\u2019s listening, and she shows you that she\u2019s trying to apply it straight on the court after,\u201d ASVEL F\u00e9minin head coach Yoann Cabioc\u2019h says. \u201cShe goes step by step very quickly.\u201d<\/p>\n
In June 2022, Malonga led France at the U17 world championship. In the bronze-medal game against Canada, she finished with 28 points and 17 rebounds.<\/p>\n
In 2024, she was named to France\u2019s Olympic team, which won the silver medal. Though she spent most of her time on the bench, she shadowed the vets, asking them questions and nodding vigorously as they answered.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe wants to be great all the time,\u201d says the Liberty\u2019s Marine Johannes, her French teammate. \u201cShe wants to learn everything, and then she is ready to step in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Malonga carried the Olympic knowledge back to ASVEL F\u00e9minin and led the team in points (18.5) and rebounds (11) and helped it to the EuroCup semifinals.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe keeps everything — any advice you give her, it\u2019s in her brain,\u201d Cabioc\u2019h says. \u201cThat makes her potential unlimited.\u201d<\/p>\n
Back on the Zoom, one girl raises her hand and asks Malonga how she\u2019s adjusting to the league in America.<\/p>\n
Malonga nods and pauses.<\/p>\n
\u201cI play a lot less here,\u201d she says. Pauses again.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes I ask myself: \u2018Am I not playing because I\u2019m average in training?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes I do really well in practice and I wonder why I\u2019m not getting playing time, what am I doing wrong?\u201d<\/p>\n
She sits up taller and smiles.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I know I\u2019m putting in the work,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m so happy to be in training.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s how I move forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
MALONGA HAS CLOCKED less than an hour of game time on a WNBA court when she finds herself alone on the perimeter against \u201cPoint Gawd\u201d Chelsea Gray.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s late and tight in the fourth quarter of a June 1 encounter between Malonga\u2019s Storm and Gray\u2019s Las Vegas Aces. The rookie, who has tied her career high with eight points, needs a stop against the shrewd 5-11 veteran who has the ball and the edge. The Climate Pledge Arena fans scream, \u201cDefense, defense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gray crosses over, goes between her legs, trying to find an inch of space. Malonga steps her right foot in. Throws her arms up.<\/p>\n
With nowhere to go, Gray crosses over. Again Malonga is in her face. She dances in front of her, her feet moving swiftly and rhythmically. Her outstretched arms deter Gray. Again. Gray is running out of time now. Two seconds on the shot clock. She needs to find space. She has only one option: She releases a high-arching fadeaway. Malonga turns around, following the trajectory of the ball.<\/p>\n
The ball finds the bottom of the net and zaps Seattle\u2019s momentum.<\/p>\n
Malonga swings her head back and clenches her fists. She claps her hands.<\/p>\n
\u201cS—, I almost had her,\u201d she thinks to herself.<\/p>\n
Almost.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was pissed because I did everything I can,\u201d Malonga says. \u201cIt was a good \u2018Welcome to the league\u2019 moment.\u201d<\/p>\n
IF MALONGA HAD had an actual welcoming committee to the WNBA, Ogwumike would be Madam President. The Storm\u2019s MVP post player, 14-year veteran and 10-time All-Star has become Yoda to her young teammate over the first few weeks of the season.<\/p>\n
The questions never stop.<\/p>\n
\u201cHow did you approach your career early on?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHow do I build a long-lasting career in the WNBA?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat were the differences in playing for clubs overseas?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWho did you play with and what lessons did you learn during your time away from America?\u201d<\/p>\n
Ogwumike finds her teammate\u2019s curiosity admirable. And her experience remarkable.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe perhaps might have a little bit more worldly experience than even someone like me,\u201d says Ogwumike, who is 16 years her elder.<\/p>\n
But it\u2019s the wisdom that comes from curiosity and experience that separates Malonga from every rookie, pretty much ever, Ogwumike says. \u201cLean into that,\u201d she tells her younger and taller shadow.<\/p>\n
\u201cDom is very mature,\u201d Ogwumike says, notwithstanding her teammate\u2019s budding obsession with applesauce. \u201cThe way she handles herself as a professional is very mature. There\u2019s a lot of preparation that goes into just being available on the court every day, and she does it every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ogwumike marvels at how quickly Malonga has absorbed the Storm\u2019s playbook and her understanding of where to be on the court and when. Malonga, after all, has been in America for all of 38 days.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat maturity also expands to how quickly she\u2019s able to pick things up as she\u2019s learning this new system,\u201d Ogwumike says.<\/p>\n
Just you wait.<\/p>\n
AMERICA\u2019S INDEPENDENCE DAY this year is also Malonga\u2019s two-month anniversary in the country. In her Brooklyn hotel room, she\u2019s gesturing her arms in a circle as she talks about how she\u2019s adapting to life in the United States.<\/p>\n
I ask her what her biggest adjustment has been.<\/p>\n
\u201cGroceries.\u201d<\/p>\n
She says she freezes when she walks into American grocery stores. She has no idea how to pick out produce for some of her favorite African recipes — fufu and peanut stew. Food is an important connector to home, but she hasn\u2019t had the time to root herself, she says. So she hasn\u2019t been cooking much. But, thankfully, team meals are delicious, she adds. And, oh, that applesauce.<\/p>\n
Every day, she feels like she\u2019s experiencing something new.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just so happy because everything that\u2019s happening. I\u2019m just like, \u2018Wow, wow, wow,\u2019 every day,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
The last experience that amazed her? She has a story.<\/p>\n
The day before, after the Storm beat Atlanta 80-79 (Malonga played only two minutes), Erica Wheeler invited the team to her house for an early Independence Day cookout.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was my first cookout ever. There were only Black people there. I was like \u2018OK, this is what a real cookout in America is,\u2019\u201d she says as her grin broadens.<\/p>\n
Every bite of food, every conversation, every fist bump invigorated her. Eyes bright, she took it all in, she says.<\/p>\n
Her energy is infectious. Even veterans can\u2019t help but learn from her attitude.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s very innocent, very childlike, eyes wide open, ready to take the world in,\u201d Williams, her teammate on the French national team and in Seattle, says. \u201cIt gives [me] a new motivation to see things from that point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n
IN HER LAST game before the All-Star break, Malonga goes scoreless in Seattle\u2019s 74-69 loss to the Washington Mystics. Fellow rookies Sonia Citron and Kiki Iriafen combine for 27 points.<\/p>\n
After the game, Citron and Iriafen travel to Indianapolis to play in the WNBA All-Star Game. No. 1 pick Paige Bueckers of the Dallas Wings was selected, too. Malonga spends the weekend with her parents on a Las Vegas vacation. They sing carpool karaoke and cruise the Strip.<\/p>\n
In Malonga\u2019s first game after the break, Bueckers has 14 points, 6 assists and 4 rebounds in Dallas\u2019 87-63 win over Seattle. Malonga goes 0-for-6 from the floor.<\/p>\n
Storm coach Noelle Quinn holds her ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had the No. 2 pick with a team with a lot of vets, and [the] ability to take it to the playoffs,\u201d Quinn says. \u201cHer trajectory in this league is very high. She just needs to be patient and be a student of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then comes July 24. Storm vs. Chicago Sky. Malonga grabs an offensive rebound. Puts it back in. Malonga sprints down the court. Lays it in. Malonga turns underneath Kamilla Cardoso. Drops the ball in. Malonga, hands outstretched, stymies Elizabeth Williams on her way to the hoop. Malonga steps beyond the arc. Makes her first 3-pointer. In 17 minutes, she has 14 points, 10 rebounds, 3 assists and 2 blocks. She becomes the youngest player in WNBA history to reach 100 points and the youngest to post a double-double.<\/p>\n
When asked what clicked for her, she deflects and praises her teammates.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t do that by myself,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n
But Quinn puts the spotlight right back on the rookie.<\/p>\n
\u201cDom has worked extremely hard up to this point,\u201d Quinn says. \u201cWe see it every day, and we want to show that on the court.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s kind of not a surprise anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n
MALONGA SQUATS IN the paint, her arms up in the air. Indiana Fever center and No. 1 pick in the 2023 WNBA draft Aliyah Boston, ball in her hands, spins around to face Malonga.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s late and tight in the third quarter of the Storm\u2019s Aug. 3 game against the Fever. Boston dribbles, her body angled against Malonga. She tries to find an inch of space. Malonga steps her left foot in, nudges Boston\u2019s elbows with her left arm. Boston steps her right foot forward. Malonga raises her arms and dances into Boston\u2019s space. Smothered, Boston leans back and brings the ball over her head. Malonga stretches her arms. Boston releases the ball and it arches over her head. It doesn\u2019t get far. Malonga\u2019s left palm makes contact and she swats it back down.<\/p>\n
The Climate Pledge Arena erupts.<\/p>\n
MALONGA PLONKS INTO a chair next to Diggins. It\u2019s minutes after the Storm defeated the Sky 94-88 on Aug. 19. Malonga came off the bench and had 15 points, 7 rebounds and 3 blocks in 19 minutes. Now she\u2019s at the news conference listening to one of the best players in the league.<\/p>\n
Reporters ask Diggins about Malonga\u2019s trajectory this season. And for the next two minutes, the veteran waxes lyrical about the youngest player in the league.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery night she breaks records,\u201d Diggins says, smiling. Malonga looks down at her hands and smiles coyly.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s literally just scratching the surface,\u201d Diggins says.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s going to be a star for the next 20 years in this league,\u201d she adds, first looking at the reporters. Then she turns to Malonga and gently punches her arm with her palm. \u201cI\u2019m not just saying this because I\u2019m here.\u201d She looks at Malonga, who is now shaking her head and smiling widely.<\/p>\n
Directly talking to Malonga, Diggins says, \u201cYou know it: If these cameras ain\u2019t pointed around, I say the same s—.\u201d Malonga nods vigorously.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s playing behind two All-Stars — and she\u2019s an All-Star in her own right,\u201d Diggins says.<\/p>\n
Then, she looks down at her palms. She grows serious.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need what she brings to the table.”<\/p>\n
ON AUG. 22, Malonga has 22 points, 9 rebounds and 3 blocks in a 95-60 win over Dallas. Bueckers, the overwhelming favorite for Rookie of the Year, has 11 points and two rebounds. It\u2019s the fourth time Malonga has had at least 15 points and five rebounds, the most by a WNBA reserve this season. On Aug. 24, Malonga has 17 points and 10 rebounds — her fourth double-double of the season — in an 84-82 win over the Washington Mystics. Citron and Iriafen combine for 26 and 12.<\/p>\n
The No. 2 pick in the WNBA draft, the generational talent, the unicorn has arrived just in time for Seattle\u2019s push to the playoffs.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the work,\u201d Malonga says. \u201cI don\u2019t want to be that person who is just talented and relies on her talent. I want to be the girl that stays in the gym because she\u2019s not taking her talent for granted.\u201d<\/p>\n
MERE MILES AWAY and hours removed from Joey Chestnut\u2019s victory at Nathan\u2019s Hot Dog Eating Contest, Malonga gestures with her arms in her Brooklyn hotel room. She\u2019s recalling one of the earliest lessons she learned from basketball.<\/p>\n
She was 12 and she loved to get on the court and show off her best moves. The thing was, her coaches didn\u2019t always think her best moves were the right moves. Sometimes they gave her a direct path to the bench.<\/p>\n
She remembers huffing and puffing and fixating on her mistakes.<\/p>\n
\u201cEverybody was talking to me about, \u2018OK, you have such a big potential,\u2019\u201d Malonga says. \u201cBut I\u2019m not playing, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
So, she listened to her coaches. She watched her more experienced teammates execute plays. She reined in her crazy offensive moves. She got in the weight room and watched her muscles grow.<\/p>\n
In the process, she fell in love with basketball.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know why?\u201d she asks me.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love to have a story to tell,\u201d she says. \u201cWhere I can say, \u2018I did that! I made it!\u2019 You cannot tell any stories if you just have the result and you didn\u2019t experience nothing, you know?\u201d<\/p>\n
She breaks into a big grin. Just you wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DOMINIQUE MALONGA SETTLES her 6-foot-6 frame into a chair in a Brooklyn hotel on a hot July 4…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[629],"tags":[68676,49,48,40528,77891,77892,82,630,77890],"class_list":["post-145607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-2025-wnba-playoffs","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dominique-malonga","tag-french-basketball","tag-seattle-storm-playoffs","tag-sports","tag-wnba","tag-wnba-rookie-of-the-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}