{"id":2089,"date":"2012-04-27T12:52:26","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T16:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2089"},"modified":"2013-10-28T13:25:13","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T17:25:13","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-october-19-1981-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-october-19-1981-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: October 19, 1981"},"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 19, 1981, Page 1.  Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19811019-001-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-10-19-1981\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19811019-001-colby.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, October 19, 1981, Page 2.  Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19811019-002-colby.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Hall-to-McNair-10-19-1981\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19811019-002-colby.jpg\" \/><\/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;\">19 Oct. 1981<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>You have not heard from me because<br \/>\nI have not been here. We went back to ann Arbor.<br \/>\nActually Jane has been there all but six weeks, since<br \/>\nearly in June. And I have been there seven weeks, all<br \/>\ntogether. I just came back after twelve days. And<br \/>\nReuel died just as I got back here, last Friday af-<br \/>\nternoon. Thank heaven. End was peaceful. Jane<br \/>\nwill be back on Tuesday. Maybe again we can start<br \/>\nto live the old life. Of course \u201cnormal life\u201d is<br \/>\nnothing but how you live in the interstices among<br \/>\ndisasters. And I will read the book! It must seem<br \/>\nstrange to you that I have not been able to. But I<br \/>\nreally have not been able to. I will be back with<br \/>\nyou \u2013 and back among the living, for a while \u2013 as<br \/>\nsoon as I can be. Love to you all,<br \/>\n<span style=\"line-height: 19px;\">Don<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2089\" data-postid=\"2089\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2089 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 19 Oct. 1981 Dear Wes, You have not heard from me because I have not been here. We went back to ann Arbor. Actually Jane has been there all but six weeks, since early in June. And I have been there seven weeks, all together. I just came back after twelve [&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":[35323,596,42965,35504,42976],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089"}],"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=2089"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9785,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2089\/revisions\/9785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}