{"id":1773,"date":"2012-04-13T14:33:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T18:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1773"},"modified":"2013-10-26T15:57:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T19:57:26","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-october-30-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-october-30-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: October 30, 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, October 30, 1980.  Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19801030-001-colby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Hall-to-McNair-10-30-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19801030-001-colby.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;\">30 October 1980<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>Many thanks for your letter, and I am<br \/>\nglad to hear what you say of \u201cTo a Waterfowl.\u201d<br \/>\nIt <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">does<\/span> have this social content\u2026 I have<br \/>\nalways thought a little the less of it, because<br \/>\nits content was more outward than inward, and<br \/>\nso subject to performance\u2026 But really, it<br \/>\nis simply another idea of poetry \u2013 a more Horatian<br \/>\nidea.<\/p>\n<p>I like the first version of the father\/<br \/>\nbrother poem. I guess I like it a little better<br \/>\nwith the change of pronoun and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fa<\/span> for <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">bro<\/span>\u2026<br \/>\nJust because it seems a little directer, more<br \/>\ninto-the-eyes. But the poem was essentially<br \/>\nthere the first time.<\/p>\n<p>I have been going back to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">new<\/span> father<br \/>\npoem and returning \u201cForgive Me,\u201d but I am not<br \/>\nsure. The guilt is real, but I am not sure<br \/>\nthat the request for forgiveness is.<\/p>\n<p>Best as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1773\" data-postid=\"1773\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1773 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 30 October 1980 Wes McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, Many thanks for your letter, and I am glad to hear what you say of \u201cTo a Waterfowl.\u201d It does have this social content\u2026 I have always thought a little the less of it, because its content was [&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":[35324,596,42965,35504,42976],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773"}],"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=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9663,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions\/9663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}