{"id":2185,"date":"2012-04-30T11:48:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T15:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2013-12-17T16:36:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T20:36:46","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-october-1-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-october-1-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: October 1, 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, October 1, 1982, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19821001-001-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, October 1, 1982, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19821001-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, October 1, 1982, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19821001-002-unh.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, October 1, 1982, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19821001-002-unh.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;\">October 1, 1982<br \/>\nDear Don,<\/p>\n<p>Well, I\u2019m glad you like \u201cThe Ice Retreats in Sutton,\u201d<br \/>\nbut I wish its intent were clearer to you.<\/p>\n<p>I was hoping to convey the impression of a long winter&#8211;<br \/>\nthe retreat of ice humorously recalling the end of an<br \/>\nice age. Thus, the Buicks would be seen as mastadons [sic],<br \/>\n\u201chay\/still in their mouths.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Because of that intent, I wanted the farm to appear<br \/>\nancient&#8211;more or less so. So, the reference to<br \/>\n\u201ca century old.\u201d (True, that <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">does<\/span> mean 1882,<br \/>\nhardly an ancient time.)<\/p>\n<p>Do you think \u201chouses centuries old\/resting<br \/>\non stone\u201d would work better. Or do you think this<br \/>\nwhole idea of the farm after an ice age flops,<br \/>\nhouses and all?<\/p>\n<p>I hope a small change will solve the problem,<br \/>\nbut I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fear<\/span> I\u2019ll have to abandon the project<br \/>\nuntil some later time\u2026<\/p>\n<p>2\/<\/p>\n<p>The other problem you raise&#8211;the needed comma after<br \/>\n\u201cfield,\u201d is easily solved&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>My writing schedule continues. It\u2019s the<br \/>\nthing that sustains me in my <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">other<\/span> schedule.<\/p>\n<p>Praise God for Joey\u2019s utility!<br \/>\nAnd thanks for your letter.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/p>\n<p>I hope the cold is now out of your head.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2185\" data-postid=\"2185\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2185 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] October 1, 1982 Dear Don, Well, I\u2019m glad you like \u201cThe Ice Retreats in Sutton,\u201d but I wish its intent were clearer to you. I was hoping to convey the impression of a long winter&#8211; the retreat of ice humorously recalling the end of an ice age. Thus, the Buicks would [&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\/2185"}],"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=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11114,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions\/11114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}