{"id":1778,"date":"2012-04-13T15:01:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T19:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1778"},"modified":"2013-10-26T15:58:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-26T19:58:42","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-november-7-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-november-7-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: November 7, 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, November 7, 1980.  Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19801107-001-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-11-07-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19801107-001-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;\">7 November 1980<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>Good news from John Nims. I think that his<br \/>\npoint about \u201ctampons\u201d is well taken \u2013 for<br \/>\naccidental reasons, as he says. It is the kind<br \/>\nof thing where you might be able to restore the<br \/>\nword in a year or two, but I would think that<br \/>\nanother word might be equally acceptable. What<br \/>\ndo you think?<\/p>\n<p>I am keeping \u201cThe Fat Enter Heaven\u201d here,<br \/>\nbut will return it with the (revised?) \u201cHair<br \/>\non Television\u201d when I write him again.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, he has a couple of other newer<br \/>\nones now, which the New Yorker has (mistakenly)<br \/>\nlet go. He did not know he had a couple newer<br \/>\npoems, when he wrote this note. So we will<br \/>\nhope that he may have more than two, to print<br \/>\ntogether, next time you come out in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Poetry<\/span>!<\/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-1778\" data-postid=\"1778\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1778 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 7 November 1980 Wes McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH Dear Wes, Good news from John Nims. I think that his point about \u201ctampons\u201d is well taken \u2013 for accidental reasons, as he says. It is the kind of thing where you might be able to restore the word in a [&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\/1778"}],"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=1778"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9665,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1778\/revisions\/9665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}