{"id":2153,"date":"2012-04-27T14:44:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2153"},"modified":"2013-12-18T21:40:01","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T01:40:01","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-june-19-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-june-19-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: June 19, 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, June 19, 1982, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820619-001-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, June 19, 1982, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19820619-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"href=\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"\" src=\"alt=\" \/><\/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 19, 1982<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling I left a word out<br \/>\nof that poem, \u201cWhen Paul Flew Away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On page 2, it\u2019s \u201cthe whole enormous weight\/<br \/>\nof him <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">hanging<\/span> over the sink.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Please insert that word, if necessary&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>A note from McNair about this letter:<\/em><\/strong><\/span> &#8220;Paul&#8221; is a fictional disguise for my older brother Paul, from Wisconsin, who played the accordion and was taken into the hospital for a life-threatening kidney operation when I began this poem. Thus, the character&#8217;s comic &#8220;flying away&#8221; has a darker association. Though I later added a phrase to the poem&#8217;s opening description of Paul (&#8220;with that worried look&#8221;) and changed the verb &#8220;began&#8221; in the first sentence to &#8220;begun,&#8221; the poem I sent in my original letter was virtually complete.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/when-paul-flew-away\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">When Paul Flew Away<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(published version)<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2153\" data-postid=\"2153\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2153 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] June 19, 1982 Dear Don, I have a feeling I left a word out of that poem, \u201cWhen Paul Flew Away.\u201d On page 2, it\u2019s \u201cthe whole enormous weight\/ of him hanging over the sink.\u201d Please insert that word, if necessary&#8211; Thanks&#8211; Wes A note from McNair about this letter: &#8220;Paul&#8221; [&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\/2153"}],"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=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11371,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions\/11371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}