{"id":2142,"date":"2012-04-27T14:34:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2142"},"modified":"2013-12-18T21:36:31","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:36:31","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-may-27-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-may-27-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: May 27, 1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"vertical-align: top; background: white; float: left;\"><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, May 27, 1982, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820527-001-unh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, May 27, 1982, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820527-001-unh.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;\">May 27, 1982<br \/>\nDear Don,<\/p>\n<p>As you see, I have enclosed three poems, two<br \/>\nof which you have seen. I have revised the \u201cFeet\u201d<br \/>\npoem, but I did not change its ending. I may be<br \/>\nwrong not to change it&#8211;may well be&#8211;but I do<br \/>\nthink it works at this point, having let the thing<br \/>\nrest awhile. The \u201cBrother\u201d poem has been revised also<br \/>\nso it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">should<\/span> be less confusing.<\/p>\n<p>If you like \u201cThe Before People\u201d, please pass it on<br \/>\nto Joey.<\/p>\n<p>Other poems&#8211;so many others&#8211;are in progress,<br \/>\nbut they resist all my best pushing and prodding<br \/>\nthus far. I will send more when I can.<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/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\/the-before-people\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">The Before People<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(published version)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>See also a selection of McNair&#8217;s <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/beforepeople-tcluster\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">manuscript notes and drafts<\/span><\/a><\/span> for &#8220;The Before People.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2142\" data-postid=\"2142\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2142 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] May 27, 1982 Dear Don, As you see, I have enclosed three poems, two of which you have seen. I have revised the \u201cFeet\u201d poem, but I did not change its ending. I may be wrong not to change it&#8211;may well be&#8211;but I do think it works at this point, having [&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":[35294,35504,42979,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142"}],"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=2142"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11365,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2142\/revisions\/11365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}