{"id":2151,"date":"2012-04-27T14:44:02","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2013-10-30T19:38:08","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T23:38:08","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-june-18-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-june-18-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: June 18, 1982"},"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, June 18, 1982, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19820618-001-colby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, June 18, 1982, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19820618-001-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;\">June 18, 1982<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nSutton, New Hampshire 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>We have agreed, then, on waiting. I don\u2019t have any suggestions<br \/>\nabout that word in the brother poem. Not off-hand.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment I still feel that leaving out \u201cthat\u201d introduces a<br \/>\nhesitation\/ambiguity that has no purpose, that only puts an impediment\u2014<br \/>\nlike a pebble in a shoe\u2026but if you feel strongly you must leave it as<br \/>\nyou wish.<\/p>\n<p>One day the manuscript will not bomb!<\/p>\n<p>Love as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/p>\n<p>[P.S. I like Paul very much!<br \/>\nIn the fall, please send flat copies on<br \/>\nthick paper for Joey\u2019s Autumn Campaign.]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2151\" data-postid=\"2151\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2151 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] June 18, 1982 Wes McNair Box 43 Sutton, New Hampshire 03260 Dear Wes, We have agreed, then, on waiting. I don\u2019t have any suggestions about that word in the brother poem. Not off-hand. At the moment I still feel that leaving out \u201cthat\u201d introduces a hesitation\/ambiguity that has no purpose, that [&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":[35294,596,42965,35504,42979],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151"}],"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=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10056,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions\/10056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}