{"id":17905,"date":"2026-03-20T07:44:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T14:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=17905"},"modified":"2026-03-25T02:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T09:20:35","slug":"the-threats-and-bare-knuckle-tactics-of-magas-top-antitrust-fixer-the-wall-street-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/?p=17905","title":{"rendered":"“The Threats and Bare-Knuckle Tactics of MAGA\u2019s Top Antitrust Fixer”, The Wall Street Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Back to News<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Davis pushed DOJ officials to approve his deals\u2014and went over their heads if they pushed back<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Dana Mattioli<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

, Rebecca Ballhaus<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 and Josh Dawsey<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

March 20, 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Mike<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Mike Davis during an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February last year.JASON C. ANDREW\/BLOOMBERG<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gail Slater<\/a>, then-head of the Justice Department\u2019s antitrust division, was reviewing Hewlett Packard Enterprise\u2019s<\/a> $14 billion bid to acquire rival Juniper when she got a phone call from one of the company\u2019s outside lawyers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t approve this settlement, I will destroy you. I will destroy your job at the DOJ,\u201d Mike Davis told her, according to a sworn deposition by her former deputy, Roger Alford, reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slater relayed the call to Alford and told him it had badly shaken her, her former deputy testified. Davis had been Slater\u2019s friend for years and recommended her to President Trump for the job. Now, he was advising HPE\u2014and Slater and her team had proved resistant to the settlement terms he proposed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fallout was swift. Within months, two of Slater\u2019s deputies\u2014including Alford\u2014were pushed out of the Justice Department<\/a>. By February, Slater was gone, too. A senior White House official said Davis played a role in her ouster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis in an interview denied making the phone call to Slater. It was \u201cutter bull\u2014 that I threatened Gail or her job,\u201d he said, denying Alford\u2019s sworn testimony. He pushed for the deputies\u2019 firings because they made \u201cbogus\u201d allegations of corruption against him, Davis said, not because of the HPE deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m the best fixer in Washington, period. Full stop,\u201d said the 48-year-old Iowan. \u201cI know the people. I know the process. I know their pressure points. I know how to win.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Journal investigation found that Davis pushed antitrust officials at the Justice Department to approve his deals\u2014and he went over their heads when they wouldn\u2019t comply, according to interviews with more than three dozen DOJ employees, lobbyists, lawyers and others familiar with the antitrust division. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis, despite having little experience practicing antitrust law, is one of the most visible practitioners of a change playing out across the division. Current and former antitrust officials said some mergers now get approval or draw mild settlements based on political ties rather than public interest. The new dynamic casts a shadow over the Justice Department\u2019s integrity, they said, and has alarmed even some Trump loyalists in the department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Gail<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gail Slater, former head of the antitrust division at the Justice Department, speaking in Washington last April. KENT NISHIMURA\/BLOOMBERG NEWS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While antitrust enforcement has long been influenced by White House policies, it was largely buffered from day-to-day political involvement in prior administrations, even during Trump\u2019s first term, according to former DOJ enforcers. Top Justice Department leaders intervened at most once or twice during a four-year term, they said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, lawyers and lobbyists representing companies under scrutiny by antitrust regulators regularly make their arguments directly to senior DOJ officials. Trump himself intervened in the department\u2019s antitrust investigation into the concert promoter Live Nation, urging aides to reach a settlement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Justice Department spokesman said that there was nothing unusual about agency leadership providing guidance on cases or consulting with stakeholders. The spokesman said all settlements, including the HPE deal, \u201care based on the merits.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis\u2019s clients include such market behemoths as Walmart<\/a> and the brokerage Compass, and his pay is commensurate\u2014as much as $300,000 a month, plus seven-figure fees for deals that close. His three most prominent clients over the past year have all had successful outcomes: Two closed their deals. One avoided a breakup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis speaks frequently with Trump, aides to the president said. He also is close to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and others in the Justice Department, said people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lobbyists in Washington, who once thrived behind the scenes, now loudly tout their connections and successes. Davis is \u201cthe face of this movement,\u201d said William Kovacic, who was appointed by President George W. Bush to chair the Federal Trade Commission in 2008. In previous administrations, he said, \u201cYou would never want to be seen holding the knife.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe cost to the country of this new pay-to-play approach to antitrust enforcement is enormous,\u201d Alford\u2014the fired Slater deputy who testified about her phone call with Davis\u2014said at a tech policy event<\/a> in August. \u201cMAGA-in-Name-Only lobbyists are influencing their allies within the DOJ and risking President Trump\u2019s populist conservative agenda.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cProfessor Alford can go to hell,\u201d Davis said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Roger<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Roger Alford during a hearing at the Capitol.  AARON SCHWARTZ\/SIPA USA\/REUTERS CONNECT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018My good friend Gail\u2019<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Slater and Davis were once close. Slater developed an interest in curbing Big Tech\u2019s power after working at The Internet Association, a trade group representing large technology companies. She had previously spent a decade at the FTC. In 2019, while working at Fox<\/a> Corp. as a senior vice president, Slater persuaded Davis to create a right-leaning Big Tech watchdog called the Internet Accountability Project. They sometimes spoke several times a day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis in recent years has cultivated a crass street-fighter online persona, posting on X about conservative censorship, immigration and what he called lawfare by Democrats who \u201cwent after Trump.\u201d He wrote, \u201cF\u2014 off, Gabby,\u201d in response to former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords\u2014who was shot in 2011 during an attack that killed six people\u2014after she posted about gun violence. His inflammatory comments have gotten him suspended from X on several occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis has ties across the federal government. He clerked for Neil Gorsuch when he was a federal judge and helped shepherd support for Gorsuch\u2019s nomination to the Supreme Court in Trump\u2019s first term. Davis subsequently spent a year as a law clerk for the new Justice, and then served as chief nominations counsel for the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago in 2022<\/a> as part of an investigation into Trump\u2019s handling of classified information, Davis came to his defense. It was a time when many other conservatives had distanced themselves from Trump after the Jan. 6 attacks at the Capitol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have a very good relationship with the president. And it became very strong when I was just about the only person who was defending him on TV after the Mar-a-Lago raid,\u201d Davis said. He estimated he made more than 5,000 media appearances, he said, most of them defending the president and serving as Trump\u2019s \u201cbiggest outside legal supporter.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a campaign rally weeks before the 2024 election, Trump predicted a bright future for Davis. \u201cThis guy is tough as hell,\u201d Trump told the crowd. \u201cWe want him in a very high capacity.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Trump won, Davis said he recommended Slater to head antitrust at DOJ and Andrew Ferguson for chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, which also handles antitrust matters. Trump went along with Davis\u2019s picks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the day of Slater\u2019s Senate confirmation hearing, Davis posted a picture of them together on X. \u201cVery proud of my good friend Gail Slater,\u201d he wrote. \u201cShe will help make America competitive again.\u201d Slater was confirmed last March. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Ferguson and Slater began their new roles, they joined Davis one night at a bar in Chinatown in Washington. Over drinks, Davis told them that clients were \u201cbeating his door down\u201d because of his ties to Trump and he asked their permission to represent clients on antitrust matters, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After spending $2.5 million to fund the Article III Project, a group he had started to support Senate judicial nominees, Davis said he told his companions that it was time to \u201crefill his coffers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis said he has done \u201czero business development.\u201d Instead, he said, clients come to him. With all the companies he is representing, Davis told the Journal he could retire right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No more lobbyists<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Hewlett Packard Enterprise was one of the companies that helped fill Davis\u2019s bank account. HPE was in the process of acquiring Juniper in a deal that would merge the second- and third-largest wireless networking providers for large corporate customers. HPE said the deal was intended to double<\/a> its networking business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ten days after Trump\u2019s January 2025 inauguration, the Justice Department sued to block the acquisition, arguing that it would substantially reduce competition in the wireless networking industry. HPE hired Davis after the DOJ lawsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In settlement talks, DOJ antitrust lawyers took the position that HPE should divest Juniper\u2019s Mist business, which uses AI to manage networks, according to people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April, Davis instead proposed an unusual settlement idea to Slater over a drink: The combined company would spend more than $100 million on factories in America, and fund networking engineering programs at universities, according to people familiar with the matter. A spokesman for HPE said that the DOJ antitrust division initiated the idea for this plan, not HPE or Davis.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slater was surprised. The proposal didn\u2019t address the department\u2019s concerns about competition or its request to spin off Mist. DOJ antitrust staff made clear it was inappropriate, the people said. That was when Slater received the call from Davis about destroying her career, according to Alford\u2019s sworn deposition in a subsequent lawsuit over how the department reached its settlement with HPE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a June 5 meeting with HPE, Slater told their representatives to keep lobbyists out of negotiations. At the end of the meeting, Slater\u2019s deputy reinforced the point, telling the company\u2019s representatives as they shook hands, \u201cNo more lobbyists. I\u2019m serious,\u201d according to the people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Attendees<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Attendees at the HPE Discover event at the Sphere in Las Vegas last June. IAN MAULE\/BLOOMBERG NEWS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They didn\u2019t know that earlier in the day, Davis had lunch with Chad Mizelle, then the chief of staff to Attorney General Pam Bondi, said people familiar with the matter. Mizelle said the lunch wasn\u2019t about HPE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis told the Journal his work \u201cincludes appealing decisions to up the food chain in the Justice Department.\u201d He did just that for HPE, according to people familiar with the matter. Slater and her team were soon sidelined from settlement talks, the people said. Instead, Mizelle fielded HPE\u2019s settlement proposals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesman for HPE said the company felt that the antitrust leadership wasn\u2019t giving proper consideration to national-security issues and appealed to senior DOJ leadership. A Justice Department official said the antitrust division wasn\u2019t cut out of the talks and that several meetings were held between DOJ leaders and antitrust officials. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Attorney General Stanley Woodward, who is DOJ\u2019s third-in-command and close to Davis, entered Slater\u2019s office on June 27 and placed a document on her desk, according to people familiar with the matter. It was a term sheet of the settlement drafted by HPE\u2019s lawyers, the people said. It made no mention of the company divesting the Mist business, a settlement condition HPE opposed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slater asked Woodward, her superior, what would happen if she didn\u2019t sign. He said she was too difficult to fire, but he would fire her deputies, according to people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slater later told people she felt like she had a gun to her head. She quickly read the agreement, and was only permitted to make minor edits, some of the people said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Justice Department official said several settlement drafts were exchanged among the parties, including the antitrust division. Mizelle said Slater and her team were instrumental in editing the draft after Woodward presented it, \u201cincluding adding\/deleting specific substantive terms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next day, the DOJ announced its settlement. Weeks later, two of Slater\u2019s deputies were fired<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In mid-September, Alford, one of the ousted deputies, called Davis \u201cunprincipled\u201d while speaking at an antitrust panel. Davis texted Alford that night saying that if he had a problem with him, to contact him directly. Slater, who had connected the two via text, also was on the text thread. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alford responded with a Bible verse from the Gospel of Matthew: \u201cFor what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul?\u201d according to texts viewed by The Journal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou\u2019re a coward. And a clown,\u201d Davis texted the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In subsequent texts to Slater and Alford, Davis derided the pair and called their initial decision on HPE \u201cidiotic.\u201d \u201cI realize neither of you have served as attorneys with actual clients for a very long time,\u201d he wrote, accusing them of \u201cattacking an attorney and punishing his clients\u201d for appealing their decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis had \u201cbled a lot for Trump,\u201d he wrote in the text thread. \u201cI have things you both lack,\u201d he said. \u201cGood judgment, discernment, and loyalty\u2026I\u2019m not going to keep taking this.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Slater and Alford interpreted his last sentence as a threat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A day after Davis\u2019s texts, the Justice Department filed a complaint seeking Alford\u2019s permanent disbarment with the Florida Bar, where he is a member. The complaint cited his public comments about the HPE acquisition process. The case is ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New deal<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

After the HPE deal, the antitrust staff noticed that rather than allowing career experts to address competitive concerns in mergers, senior leadership at the department hammered out terms themselves, overruling staff recommendations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Justice Department official said leadership officials were obligated to intervene when bureaucrats make moves inconsistent with the agency\u2019s enforcement policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October, Davis\u2019s Article III Project hosted Blanche, Woodward, Ferguson, FBI Director Kash Patel and other Justice Department officials at the Italian restaurant Cafe Fiorello. The party toasted Mizelle\u2019s departure as chief of staff, as well as Woodward\u2019s recent confirmation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Around this time, the DOJ antitrust staff was evaluating real-estate brokerage giant Compass\u2019s $1.6 billion acquisition of its rival, Anywhere Real Estate. Anywhere owns Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Corcoran and Sotheby\u2019s International Realty. Compass and Anywhere were the first- and second-biggest brokerages, respectively, by volume in 2025. An acquisition would create a company accounting for more than a fifth of home-sales volume nationwide, according to Real Trends Consulting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compass hired Davis on the acquisition. The company wanted to avoid a \u201csecond request,\u201d a routine part of antitrust enforcement where an agency asks for more information to evaluate whether to block or approve a deal. Slater wanted one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Davis appealed to Blanche\u2019s office to say that any worries could be addressed without one. Blanche\u2019s office agreed, the people familiar with the matter said. Slater and the antitrust staff were overruled. The deal closed in January without a second request<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Justice Department official said, \u201cThe entire DOJ leadership determined that Slater\u2019s flawed understanding of the deal required a different approach.\u201d The official said that \u201cmany of the markets affected in housing are very local\u201d and didn\u2019t have national implications that would justify using Justice Department resources to investigate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Antitrust lawyers said it was highly unusual for Justice Department leaders to intervene at that stage to prevent antitrust staff from collecting more information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"A<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A Compass sign posted in front of a home for sale in last year in Greenbrae, Calif. JUSTIN SULLIVAN\/GETTY IMAGES<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the Biden administration, the Justice Department sued to break up Live Nation and Ticketmaster<\/a>, alleging that the company drove prices higher for fans and suppressed competition. Slater\u2019s team inherited the case. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Trump\u2019s election, Live Nation hired Davis to advise on the Justice Department case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company faced an uphill battle. Trump last spring pledged to crack down on bad behavior <\/a>in the ticketing and concert industry to bring down prices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the relationship between Davis and Slater soured, Davis\u2019s involvement in Live Nation\u2019s dealings with the Justice Department waned. Kellyanne Conway, a former senior adviser to Trump whom the company also hired last year, advised the company on settlement talks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In response to overtures from Live Nation to settle, the antitrust team proposed the company, which controls roughly 50% of the concert promotion market, divest a significant number of the 50 to 60 large amphitheaters it owns or operates, according to people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before a settlement was reached, Slater was fired. Davis cheered her removal on X in more than a dozen posts. In his later deposition, Davis acknowledged recommending firing Slater to \u201canyone who would listen,\u201d including Woodward, Blanche and Bondi, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump heard about the Live Nation case from friends, including Hollywood talent agent and former Live Nation board member Ariel Emanuel, who told the president it should be settled, according to people familiar with the conversations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the trial began in March, Trump began calling around to ask why it hadn\u2019t been settled. What\u2019s the holdup?<\/em> he wanted to know, according to people familiar with the matter. It was an extraordinary role for a president to play in a routine antitrust investigation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

On March 5, both sides met at the White House to hash things out, according to people familiar with the meeting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino and the company counsel joined officials, including Bondi, White House counsel David Warrington and Slater\u2019s acting replacement. The settlement was signed that day, said people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Four days later, the Justice Department and Live Nation announced a tentative agreement <\/a>that would allow the company to avoid a breakup. There would be no venue divestitures, though the company agreed to divest 13 exclusive booking agreements with amphitheaters, as well as open its amphitheaters to all promoters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several states said the settlement would benefit the company at consumers\u2019 expense. The Justice Department said the settlement would yield \u201cmore independent amphitheaters.\u201d Dan Wall, Live Nation\u2019s executive vice president of corporate and regulatory affairs, said the settlement was in the public interest and included most of what Slater had sought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In court that day, the DOJ\u2019s lead lawyer in the trial said he had learned of the settlement that morning. \u201cI only saw the term sheet when you did,\u201d he told the judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dana Mattioli<\/a> is a is a Pulitzer Prize-winning technology investigations and enterprise reporter for The Wall Street Journal in New York. She does deep dives on technology, politics, antirust and other subjects.<\/em> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to this role, she led investigations into Amazon’s business practices, market power and antitrust issues. She is the author of the book “The Everything War: Amazon\u2019s Ruthless Quest to Own the World and Remake Corporate Power,” which was longlisted as one of the best business books of 2024 by the Financial Times and named a best book of 2024 by Publishers Weekly. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dana was part of a WSJ team that won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting for coverage of Elon Musk. She was part of a team that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for its investigation into Amazon, and was the winner of the 2021 Gerald Loeb Award for Beat Reporting. In 2021, she received the WERT Prize, an award from the Women\u2019s Economic Round Table that honors excellence in comprehensively reported business journalism, and received a Front Page Award for her Amazon coverage. In 2026, she received the Nellie Bly Award from the Newswomen’s Club of New York.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dana earlier covered mergers & acquisitions, where she and colleagues broke some of the largest deals ever recorded, including Pfizer\u2019s $150 billion deal to buy Allergan. In 2016, she won a Gerald Loeb Award in the breaking news category for coverage of the Dow-DuPont merger. She was a finalist for the 2015 Larry Birger Young Business Journalist Award.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before covering M&A, she reported on retail companies and produced a string of front-page articles and scoops on the troubles at Kodak and J.C. Penney as well as the M&A exploits of various retailers. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dana started at the Journal in 2006. She graduated from American University in Washington, D.C., with degrees in journalism and literature.<\/em><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca Ballhaus<\/a> is a reporter on The Wall Street Journal’s investigations team, based in New York. Her work focuses on politics and government and includes investigations into conflicts of interest across the federal government, the role of money in politics and harassment and abuse at federal agencies.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

She previously spent eight years in the Journal\u2019s Washington bureau, covering campaign finance, politics and the Trump White House. She was part of the team that won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for revealing that Donald Trump had played a central role in a series of payoffs made to women during his presidential campaign. In 2023, she led a team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting for a series that revealed that thousands of senior federal employees owned stock in companies their agencies oversaw.Follow<\/em><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Josh Dawsey<\/a> is a political investigations and enterprise reporter for The Wall Street Journal. He most recently worked as a political enterprise and investigations reporter for the Washington Post. He joined the Post in 2017 and previously covered the White House.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back to News Mike Davis pushed DOJ officials to approve his deals\u2014and went over their heads if they pushed back By Dana Mattioli , Rebecca Ballhaus  and Josh Dawsey March 20, 2026 Mike Davis during an appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference in February last year.JASON C. ANDREW\/BLOOMBERG Gail Slater, then-head of the Justice Department\u2019s antitrust division, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17912,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17905\/revisions\/17912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldcampaign.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}