{"id":2205,"date":"2012-04-30T12:02:21","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T16:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2205"},"modified":"2013-12-17T17:25:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-17T21:25:46","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-december-3-1982","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-december-3-1982\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: December 3, 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, December 3, 1982, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19821203-001-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, December 3, 1982, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19821203-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, December 3, 1982, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19821203-002-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, December 3, 1982, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/04\/McNair-Hall-19821203-002-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;\">December 3, 1982<br \/>\nDear Don,<\/p>\n<p>Here is another one for your collection.<br \/>\nIf it seems worthy, please pass it on<br \/>\nto Joey.<\/p>\n<p>And please tell Joey the reason<br \/>\nthe tea is not helping his headaches<br \/>\nis that it\u2019s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ginger<\/span> tea he should<br \/>\nbe drinking, not the regular.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/p>\n<p>THE WISH<\/p>\n<p>Bernice Manchester,<br \/>\nwho exchanged the veil<br \/>\nfor an apron, and wore it<br \/>\non Frank\u2019s farm for fifty years,<br \/>\nclosing it each long summer<br \/>\naround hot canning racks,<br \/>\neach winter around reluctant<br \/>\nlids of jam,<\/p>\n<p>who tied herself back<br \/>\ninto it after bearing<br \/>\neach of his children,<br \/>\nand grew old lacing herself<br \/>\ninto her black shoes<br \/>\nand walking to the same<br \/>\nplaces, stove, dining room<br \/>\nand chickenhouse,<\/p>\n<p>who marched right through<br \/>\nfive decades with string beans<br \/>\nand bread and apple pie<br \/>\nfor his hired men, who carried<br \/>\nhim eggs for breakfast<br \/>\nthrough the great hurricane<br \/>\nand windstorms no one knew<br \/>\nabout within,<\/p>\n<p>lay apronless at the end<br \/>\nbeside the pink flush<br \/>\ntoilet Frank installed,<br \/>\nand with a far-off look<br \/>\nannounced that in her final<br \/>\nrest, she wished<br \/>\nto lie by him,<br \/>\nthe salesman<\/p>\n<p>everyone but Bernice had forgot<br \/>\ndied just after she married him,<br \/>\nat seventeen.<\/p>\n<p>-Wesley McNair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2205\" data-postid=\"2205\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2205 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] December 3, 1982 Dear Don, Here is another one for your collection. If it seems worthy, please pass it on to Joey. And please tell Joey the reason the tea is not helping his headaches is that it\u2019s ginger tea he should be drinking, not the regular. Love, Wes THE WISH [&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":[35294,35504,42982,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205"}],"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=2205"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11122,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205\/revisions\/11122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}