{"id":1784,"date":"2012-04-13T15:08:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T19:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2013-12-13T15:45:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T19:45:19","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-november-17-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-november-17-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: November 17, 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 17, 1980.  Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19801117-001-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-11-17-1980\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19801117-001-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;\">17 November 1980<br \/>\nWesley McNair<br \/>\nSutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it is nice about <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Poetry<\/span> isn\u2019t it?<br \/>\nTerrific. \u2026As you remember, Nims has not<br \/>\nyet accepted them! But he has largely promised<br \/>\nto accept them, so I expect to forward an<br \/>\nacceptance slip to you before long.<\/p>\n<p>If you will not keep your stated intentions,<br \/>\nJoey will help you out. Joey will not send out<br \/>\nthose poems for a few weeks, waiting for you<br \/>\nto make a change! The only one that I can see<br \/>\nis the a-typical syntax of the middle sentence<br \/>\nof \u201cWhere I live.\u201d Syntactically and in its<br \/>\npunctuation if it were like the rest of the poem,<br \/>\nthere would be a comma after \u201cgas station,\u201d and<br \/>\nprobably the line-break would be different. I<br \/>\nam not sure that it is a bad thing. It certainly<br \/>\ndoes slow me down and make me go back and parses<br \/>\nthe sentence\u2026 But it would take me a while<br \/>\nto figure it out for sure also. But I don\u2019t<br \/>\nwant to send it out and then get a new version<br \/>\nin the mail\u2026 So why don\u2019t you look back at<br \/>\nit for a while? I will hold on.<\/p>\n<p>Best as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/p>\n<p>I like them both!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1784\" data-postid=\"1784\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1784 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 17 November 1980 Wesley McNair Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, Yes, it is nice about Poetry isn\u2019t it? Terrific. \u2026As you remember, Nims has not yet accepted them! But he has largely promised to accept them, so I expect to forward an acceptance slip to you before long. If you will [&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\/1784"}],"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=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11006,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions\/11006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}