{"id":2187,"date":"2012-04-30T11:49:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T15:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2013-11-02T20:01:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T00:01:13","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-october-4-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-october-4-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: October 4, 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, October 4, 1982, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19821004-001-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, October 4, 1982, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19821004-001-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;\">4 October 1982<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>I think that the notion of the farm\u2019s<br \/>\nreturn after the ice age is wonderful and clear.<br \/>\nAnd I love those Buicks with hay in their teeth\u2026<\/p>\n<p>But yes, a century confuses things,<br \/>\nbecause it is so recent\u2026 And even centuries<br \/>\nis perfectly historical, and not ice-age-ish.<br \/>\nI don\u2019t know quite how to do it. I don\u2019t think<br \/>\nthat you are far away, by any means\u2026 No need<br \/>\nto abandon the project! I mean to say, could<br \/>\nyou even do houses <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">millennia<\/span> old\u2026 I know they<br \/>\nare not, but then, the Buicks don\u2019t eat hay<br \/>\neither!<\/p>\n<p>Love as ever,<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Wes: You have sent the manuscript to<br \/>\nCostanzo, have you not? If you have not, please<br \/>\nget it in the mail today. I just had a letter<br \/>\nfrom him, and he mentioned reading manuscripts\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2187\" data-postid=\"2187\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2187 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 4 October 1982 Wes McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, I think that the notion of the farm\u2019s return after the ice age is wonderful and clear. And I love those Buicks with hay in their teeth\u2026 But yes, a century confuses things, because it is so recent\u2026 [&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\/2187"}],"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=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10124,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/10124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}