{"id":2195,"date":"2012-04-30T11:55:05","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T15:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2195"},"modified":"2013-11-02T19:47:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-02T23:47:40","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-october-14-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-october-14-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: October 14, 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 14, 1982, Page 1, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19821014-001-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 14, 1982, Page 1, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19821014-001-colby.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, October 14, 1982, Page 2, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19821014-002-colby.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, October 14, 1982, Page 2, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/Hall-McNair-19821014-002-colby.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;\">14 Oct. 1982<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>I like the new title. It is not that I care<br \/>\nwhether \u201cretreat\u201d was <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">meant<\/span> about the ice-age, and<br \/>\nit is not that I think it \u201csounds like\u201d a military<br \/>\nword. \u201cRetreat\u201d <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">is<\/span> always a military word \u2013<br \/>\nwhether it is spoken about the Dow Jones Index, or<br \/>\nthe colons in autumn, or the ice in the spring, or<br \/>\nanything. Just as the word \u201ccradle\u201d is always a<br \/>\nwooden object for rocking babies in, even when we<br \/>\ncradle a submachine gun\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/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-2195\" data-postid=\"2195\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2195 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 14 Oct. 1982 Wes McNair Dear Wes, I like the new title. It is not that I care whether \u201cretreat\u201d was meant about the ice-age, and it is not that I think it \u201csounds like\u201d a military word. \u201cRetreat\u201d is always a military word \u2013 whether it is spoken about the [&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\/2195"}],"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=2195"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10110,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2195\/revisions\/10110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}