{"id":144,"date":"2011-05-19T11:48:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T15:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/?p=144"},"modified":"2017-06-12T13:20:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-12T17:20:22","slug":"wesley-mcnair-named-poet-laureate-of-maine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/2011\/05\/19\/wesley-mcnair-named-poet-laureate-of-maine\/","title":{"rendered":"Wesley McNair Named Poet Laureate of Maine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>March 11, 2011<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/scimport\/files\/2011\/05\/wesley_mcnair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-147\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/scimport\/files\/2011\/05\/wesley_mcnair-265x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"134\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2011\/05\/wesley_mcnair-265x300.jpg 265w, https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/files\/2011\/05\/wesley_mcnair.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 134px) 100vw, 134px\" \/><\/a>Wesley McNair was appointed to the position of Maine poet laureate Friday, March 11,\u00a0at a ceremony at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston. McNair said he sees the appointment as a great honor but plans to keep doing what he\u2019s always done:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI\u2019ve been bringing poetry to the people from the start. My goal is to continue making poets in Maine more visible to their communities and to their regions.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the entire Bob Keyes article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlinesentinel.com\/news\/LePage-appoints-new-state-poet-laureate.html\">here<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-144\" data-postid=\"144\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-144 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 11, 2011 Wesley McNair was appointed to the position of Maine poet laureate Friday, March 11,\u00a0at a ceremony at the Franco-American Heritage Center in Lewiston. McNair said he sees the appointment as a great honor but plans to keep doing what he\u2019s always done: \u201cI\u2019ve been bringing poetry to the people from the start. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[898],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}