{"id":1688,"date":"2012-03-30T13:47:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T17:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1688"},"modified":"2013-12-18T20:48:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T00:48:56","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-september-2-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-september-2-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: September 2, 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, September 2, 1980.  Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19800902-001-unh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"McNair-to-Hall-09-02-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19800902-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\">[Click image to view]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td style=\"background: white; padding-left: 30px;\">Sept 2, 1980<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>In my haste to take care of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">my<br \/>\nown<\/span> business in my last letter, I<br \/>\nneglected to tell you how much<br \/>\nI \u2013 we all \u2013 enjoyed your book,<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Ox-Cart Man<\/span>. I expect it<br \/>\nwill be in our family for a long<br \/>\ntime to come. I can easily see why<br \/>\nkids enjoy it, just as the kid<br \/>\nin me enjoyed the original poem.<br \/>\nMaybe it will even touch some<br \/>\nof them to like poetry!<br \/>\nAnyway, I\u2019m glad I finally<br \/>\ngot a chance to see it. It\u2019s<br \/>\na very nice little book.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/ox-cart-man\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Ox Cart Man<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(published version)<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1688\" data-postid=\"1688\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1688 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] Sept 2, 1980 Dear Don, In my haste to take care of my own business in my last letter, I neglected to tell you how much I \u2013 we all \u2013 enjoyed your book, The Ox-Cart Man. I expect it will be in our family for a long time to come. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35324,35504,42973,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1688"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11306,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1688\/revisions\/11306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}