{"id":1731,"date":"2012-04-13T13:19:13","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T17:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1731"},"modified":"2013-12-13T15:02:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T19:02:41","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-september-28-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-september-28-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: September 28, 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 28, 1980, Page 1.  Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19800928-001-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-09-28-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19800928-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, September 28, 1980, Page 2.  Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19800928-002-unh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"mcnair-to-hall-09-28-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19800928-002-unh.jpg\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, September 28, 1980, Page 3.  Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19800928-003-unh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"mcnair-to-hall-09-28-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19800928-003-unh.jpg\" \/><\/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;\">September 28, 1980<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>Will you let me know sometime what you think<br \/>\nof the enclosed?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Love,<br \/>\nWes<\/p>\n<p>WAVING GOODBYE<\/p>\n<p>Waving goodbye is the name<br \/>\ngiven to air<br \/>\nwe shape with others,<\/p>\n<p>husband and wife<br \/>\ngently touching<br \/>\nthe distance<\/p>\n<p>growing between them,<br \/>\nwhich is not air<br \/>\nexactly, not emptiness,<\/p>\n<p>but what together<br \/>\nthey are making, the almost<br \/>\ninvisible thing<\/p>\n<p>the father makes<br \/>\nwith his son, stroking the air<br \/>\nas if it might break,<\/p>\n<p>what all the sisters<br \/>\nand brothers, waving together,<br \/>\nletting go,<\/p>\n<p>are bringing to life,<br \/>\nnot emptiness, not the shape<br \/>\nof our sadness,<\/p>\n<p>but rounder, and light<br \/>\nenough to lift up<br \/>\nas we turn,<\/p>\n<p>rising above<br \/>\nthe terminal, above<br \/>\nthe heavy streets,<\/p>\n<p>invisible<br \/>\nbut for the loving<br \/>\ntrace of hands.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1731\" data-postid=\"1731\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1731 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] September 28, 1980 Dear Don, Will you let me know sometime what you think of the enclosed? Thanks \u2013 Love, Wes WAVING GOODBYE Waving goodbye is the name given to air we shape with others, husband and wife gently touching the distance growing between them, which is not air exactly, not [&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\/1731"}],"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=1731"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10987,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1731\/revisions\/10987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}