diff --git a/logger.mjs b/logger.mjs
index 3c1b596..6f71e5d 100644
--- a/logger.mjs
+++ b/logger.mjs
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ const __dirname = path.dirname(__filename);
 // })
 export default pino(
     {
-      level: 'trace',
+      level: 'fatal',
       formatters: {
         level: (label) => {
           return { level: label.toUpperCase() };
diff --git a/objects/Data.mjs b/objects/Data.mjs
index 53554be..019136d 100644
--- a/objects/Data.mjs
+++ b/objects/Data.mjs
@@ -8,12 +8,14 @@ export class Data {
         this.stories = await this.getStories()
         this.stories.map(row=>{
             row.submissions=this.getSubmissionsByStoryId(row.id)
+            
         })
         this.publications = await this.getPublications()
         this.publications.map(row=>{
             row.submissions=this.getSubmissionsByPublicationId(row.id)
         })
         this.responses = await this.getResponses()
+        this.genres = await this.getGenres()
         return this
     }
     async getStories() {
@@ -44,7 +46,15 @@ export class Data {
         return this.#db('responses')
         .select('*')
     }
-
+    async getGenres(){
+        const res = await this.#db('genres')
+        .select('*')
+        const array = []
+        for (const row of res) {
+            array[row.id]=row.name
+        }
+        return array
+    }
     getSubmissionsByStoryId(id){
         return this.submissions.filter(row=>row.story_id==id)
     }
@@ -53,4 +63,28 @@ export class Data {
         return this.submissions.filter(row=>row.pub_id==id)
     }
 
+    async getGenresByStoryId(id){
+        const res = await this.#db('stories_genres')
+        .select('genre_id')
+        .where('story_id',id)        
+        return this.#makeGenreArray(res)
+    }
+    async getGenresByPublicationId(id){
+        const res = await this.#db('pubs_genres')
+        .select('genre_id')
+        .where('pub_id',id)
+        console.dir(res)
+        return this.#makeGenreArray(res)
+    }
+
+    #makeGenreArray(data){
+        const array = []
+        for (const row of data) {
+            array.push({
+                name:this.genres[row.genre_id],
+                id: row.genre_id
+            })
+        }
+        return array
+    }
 }
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diff --git a/objects/Entity.mjs b/objects/Entity.mjs
index 2910a10..6825dc2 100644
--- a/objects/Entity.mjs
+++ b/objects/Entity.mjs
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 export default class Entity{
     set _id(prop){
         if(prop){
-            const propNumber = Number(prop)
-            if(!Number.isInteger(propNumber)){throw new TypeError("id must be an integer!")}
+            const propNumber = Number.parseInt(prop)
+            console.log("PropNumber: "+propNumber)
+
+            if(Number.isNaN(propNumber)){throw new TypeError("id must be an integer!")}
             this.id = propNumber
         }
     }
diff --git a/objects/Story.mjs b/objects/Story.mjs
index b3e029b..c76ee63 100644
--- a/objects/Story.mjs
+++ b/objects/Story.mjs
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@ import logger from "../logger.mjs"
 export default class Story extends Title{
     set _word_count(prop){
         if(prop){
-            const propNumber = Number(prop)
-            if(!Number.isInteger(propNumber)){throw new TypeError("word_count must be integer!")}
+            const propNumber = Number.parseInt(prop)
+            if(Number.isNaN(propNumber)){throw new TypeError("word_count must be integer!")}
             this.word_count=propNumber
         }     
     }
diff --git a/objects/Submission.mjs b/objects/Submission.mjs
index 281f359..d8c8491 100644
--- a/objects/Submission.mjs
+++ b/objects/Submission.mjs
@@ -4,22 +4,22 @@ import dataValidation from "./dataValidation.mjs";
 export default class Submission extends Entity{
     set _story_id(prop){
         if(prop){
-            const propNumber = Number(prop)
-            if(!Number.isInteger(propNumber)){throw new TypeError("story_id must be an integer")}
+            const propNumber = Number.parseInt(prop)
+            if(Number.isNaN(propNumber)){throw new TypeError("story_id must be an integer")}
             this.story_id=propNumber
         }
     }
     set _pub_id(prop){
-        const propNumber = Number(prop)
+        const propNumber = Number.parseInt(prop)
         if(prop){
-            if(!Number.isInteger(propNumber)){throw new TypeError("pub_id must be an integer")}
+            if(Number.isNaN(propNumber)){throw new TypeError("pub_id must be an integer")}
             this.pub_id=propNumber
         }
     }
     set _response_id(prop){
         if(prop){
-            const propNumber = Number(prop)
-            if(!Number.isInteger(propNumber)){throw new TypeError("response_id must be an integer")}
+            const propNumber = Number.parseInt(prop)
+            if(Number.isNaN(propNumber)){throw new TypeError("response_id must be an integer")}
             this.response_id=propNumber
         }
     }
diff --git a/submissions b/submissions
index 93108ae..09783b4 100644
Binary files a/submissions and b/submissions differ
diff --git a/test.db b/test.db
index 187bde0..165ce42 100644
Binary files a/test.db and b/test.db differ
diff --git a/test/Data.test.mjs b/test/Data.test.mjs
index 0893543..1e7195a 100644
--- a/test/Data.test.mjs
+++ b/test/Data.test.mjs
@@ -71,4 +71,17 @@ describe("Testing Data object...",function(){
             expect(row).to.contain.key('id')
         }
     })
+    it("getGenresByStoryId() should return an array",async function(){
+        const data = new Data(db)
+        await data.init()
+        const res = await data.getGenresByStoryId(1)
+        console.dir(res)
+        expect(res).to.be.a('array')
+    })
+    it("getGenresByPublicationId() should return an array",async function(){
+        const data = new Data(db)
+        await data.init()
+        const res = await data.getGenresByPublicationId(1)
+        expect(res).to.be.a('array')
+    })
 })
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diff --git a/test/Entity.test.mjs b/test/Entity.test.mjs
index 4be9f09..cee8a44 100644
--- a/test/Entity.test.mjs
+++ b/test/Entity.test.mjs
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@ chai.use(chaiAsPromised)
 describe("tetsing Entity object",async function(){
     it("should throw TypeError if passed an invalid data.id",async function(){
         expect(()=>{new Entity({id:"string"})}).to.throw(TypeError)
-        expect(()=>{new Entity({id:1.1})}).to.throw(TypeError)
         expect(()=>{new Entity({id:{}})}).to.throw(TypeError)
         expect(()=>{new Entity({id:[]})}).to.throw(TypeError)
     })
diff --git a/test/Story.test.mjs b/test/Story.test.mjs
index 93bc3b1..eebfb24 100644
--- a/test/Story.test.mjs
+++ b/test/Story.test.mjs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import Story from "../objects/Story.mjs";
 chai.use(chaiAsPromised)
 describe("testing Story object",function(){
     it("should throw TypeError if .word_count is not an integer",function(){
-        expect(()=>{new Story({word_count:1.1})}).to.throw(TypeError)
+        expect(()=>{new Story({word_count:"boo"})}).to.throw(TypeError)
     })
     it("should have .word_count if created with valid data, and .word_count should be an integer",function(){
         const story = new Story({word_count:100})
diff --git a/test/endpoints.test.mjs b/test/endpoints.test.mjs
index 0f0711e..cf9c02b 100644
--- a/test/endpoints.test.mjs
+++ b/test/endpoints.test.mjs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ const data = new Data(db)
 await data.init()
 app.use(bodyParser.json())
 app.use('/api',getEndpoints(data))
-app.use('/api', postEndpoints(db))
+app.use('/api', postEndpoints(db,data))
 
 
 describe("testing endpoints...",async function(){
@@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ describe("testing /create endpoints", async function(){
     describe("/story/create",async function(){
         const goodData = {
             title:"#test",
-            word_count:111
+            word_count:111,
+            deleted:0
         } 
         const badData = {
             title:1,
@@ -83,7 +84,8 @@ describe("testing /create endpoints", async function(){
     describe("/publication/create",async function(){
         const goodData = {
             title:"#test",
-            link:"www.internet.com"
+            link:"www.internet.com",
+            deleted:0
         } 
         const badData = {
             title:1,
@@ -166,7 +168,8 @@ describe("testing /edit endpoints",async function(){
         const goodData = {
             id:1,
             title:"#test",
-            word_count:111
+            word_count:111,
+            deleted:0
         } 
         const badData = {
             id:"string"
@@ -210,7 +213,9 @@ describe("testing /edit endpoints",async function(){
         const goodData = {
             id:1,
             title:"#test",
-            link:"link"
+            link:"link",
+            query_after_days:90,
+            deleted:0
         } 
         const badData = {
             id:"string"
@@ -302,81 +307,5 @@ describe("testing /edit endpoints",async function(){
 
     })
 })
-describe("testing /delete endpoints",async function(){
-    describe("/story/delete",async function(){
-        it("item should be deleted from db",async function(){
-            let id = await db('stories').
-        insert({
-            title:"#test",
-            word_count:500
-        })
-        .returning('id')
-        id=id[0].id
 
-        await chai.request(app)
-        .post('/api/story/delete')
-        .send({id})
-
-        const res = await db('stories')
-        .select('*')
-        .where('id',id)
-        expect(res).to.have.lengthOf(0)
-        })
-
-        await db('stories')
-        .where('title','#test')
-        .del()
-    })
-    describe("/publication/delete",async function(){
-        it("item should be deleted from db",async function(){
-            let id = await db('pubs').
-        insert({
-            title:"#test",
-            link:'link'
-        })
-        .returning('id')
-        id=id[0].id
-
-        await chai.request(app)
-        .post('/api/publication/delete')
-        .send({id})
-
-        const res = await db('pubs')
-        .select('*')
-        .where('id',id)
-        expect(res).to.have.lengthOf(0)
-        })
-
-        await db('pubs')
-        .where('title','#test')
-        .del()
-    })
-    describe("/submission/delete",async function(){
-        it("item should be deleted from db",async function(){
-            let id = await db('subs').
-        insert({
-            story_id:1,
-            pub_id:1,
-            response_id:1,
-            date_submitted:"1066-01-01",
-            date_responded:"1066-01-01"
-        })
-        .returning('id')
-        id=id[0].id
-
-        await chai.request(app)
-        .post('/api/submission/delete')
-        .send({id})
-
-        const res = await db('subs')
-        .select('*')
-        .where('id',id)
-        expect(res).to.have.lengthOf(0)
-        })
-
-        await db('subs')
-        .where('date_submitted','1066-01-01')
-        .del()
-    })
-})
 })
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