{"id":1775,"date":"2012-04-13T14:45:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T18:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2013-12-18T21:03:06","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:03:06","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-october-31-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-october-31-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: October 31, 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 31, 1980.  Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19801031-001-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-19-31-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19801031-001-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;\">October 31, 1980<\/p>\n<p>Dear Mr. Amaryllis,<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for letting us see Mr. McNair\u2019s<br \/>\npoems.<\/p>\n<p>I like, and would like to accept, two of<br \/>\nthem (\u201cHair on Television,\u201d \u201cThe Fat Enter Heaven\u201d)<br \/>\nif Mr. McNair would change \u201ctampons\u201d to anything<br \/>\nelse hawked on television.<\/p>\n<p>My reason is that \u201ctampons\u201d right now has too<br \/>\nmany painful associations with \u201ctoxic shock syndrome\u201d<br \/>\nand suffering and death. It\u2019s a gruesomely dissonant<br \/>\nnot in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">this<\/span> poem\u2014though it might be fine elsewhere,<br \/>\nanywhere where gruesomeness was the intent.<\/p>\n<p>I return the other poem just to save paperwork.<br \/>\nIf Mr. McNair can rework his poem just a little, we<br \/>\ncan accept both at once.<\/p>\n<p>With all best wishes,<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<br \/>\nJohn F. Nims<\/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\/hair-on-television\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Hair on Television<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(published version)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/the-fat-enter-heaven\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Fat Enter Heaven<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(published version)<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1775\" data-postid=\"1775\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1775 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] October 31, 1980 Dear Mr. Amaryllis, Thank you for letting us see Mr. McNair\u2019s poems. I like, and would like to accept, two of them (\u201cHair on Television,\u201d \u201cThe Fat Enter Heaven\u201d) if Mr. McNair would change \u201ctampons\u201d to anything else hawked on television. My reason is that \u201ctampons\u201d right now [&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\/1775"}],"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=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11326,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions\/11326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}