{"id":1789,"date":"2012-04-13T15:22:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T19:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=1789"},"modified":"2013-12-16T15:30:48","modified_gmt":"2013-12-16T19:30:48","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-november-20-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-november-20-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: November 20, 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 20, 1980.  Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19801120-001-colby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray;background: white\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19801120-001-colby.jpg\" alt=\"Hall-to-McNair-11-20-1980\" 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;\">\n<p>20 November 1980<\/p>\n<p>Wesley McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes and Diane,<\/p>\n<p>I am so sorry about Diane\u2019s father.  It is a wretched<br \/>\ntime.  This December will be the twenty-fifth anniversary<br \/>\nof my own father\u2019s death, and last October I turned older<br \/>\nthan he was on the day he died. He is still there for me,<br \/>\n[<em>Written in margin<\/em>: I know you know the poem.]<br \/>\nfreshly, around the corner, with the familiar sound that his<br \/>\nfeet made walking \u2013 only he is younger than I am now.  Very<br \/>\nstrange.<\/p>\n<p>Jane\u2019s father, who is seventy-six now, is chronically<br \/>\nill.  He has had cancer twice, had a little stroke last year,<br \/>\nhas congestive heart failure \u2013 and they may, or may not, &#8211;<br \/>\nbe coming out for Christmas.  We worry about him, as you might<br \/>\nexpect.  How old was your father, Diane?  He certainly packed<br \/>\nthings in together, didn\u2019t he?  Horrid.<\/p>\n<p>Wes, many thanks for the poem, which Joey will make<br \/>\nexcellent use of.  Very good to have it now, and I think that<br \/>\nwe will do better by it.  Good for them, in their fecklessness.<\/p>\n<p>Best as ever, love, and sorrow\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-1789\" data-postid=\"1789\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-1789 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 20 November 1980 Wesley McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes and Diane, I am so sorry about Diane\u2019s father. It is a wretched time. This December will be the twenty-fifth anniversary of my own father\u2019s death, and last October I turned older than he was on the day [&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":[35324,35504,42976,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789"}],"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=1789"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11031,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789\/revisions\/11031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}