I can only hope you’ll receive this letter, with the station in Cardassian hands.<\/p>\n
I thought today, and not for the first time, all this was because of you. Perhaps I should have been left in limbo. Perhaps you should have lived out the life you’d made. None of this happened. No war. No casualties. Only fifty years of an uneasy stalemate. And you the writer you always wanted to be.<\/p>\n
I can’t blame you, and I was wrong to, even briefly. The man who made that choice never existed. You’re my son.<\/p>\n
See you soon. Stay safe.<\/p>\n
Love, Dad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I can only hope you’ll receive this letter, with the station in Cardassian hands. I thought today, and not for the first time, all this was because of you. Perhaps I should have been left in limbo. Perhaps you should have lived out the life you’d made. None of this happened. No war. No casualties. Continue reading “War Correspondence”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[315,316,285],"class_list":["post-7055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-benjamin-sisko","tag-jake-sisko","tag-star-trek-deep-space-nine","short-fiction-star-trek","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}