{"id":2457,"date":"2012-05-10T14:54:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T18:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2457"},"modified":"2013-11-04T14:39:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T18:39:54","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-october-14-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-october-14-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: October 14, 1983"},"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, 1983, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19831014-001-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, 1983, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/Hall-McNair-19831014-001-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;\">14 October 1983<\/p>\n<p>Wesley McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>I think it would be best if I saw the old<br \/>\nletter. Please get them to send it to me.<br \/>\nThen I will bring it up to date and get it<br \/>\nback to them right away.<\/p>\n<p>I think it might be best if I did not<br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">seem<\/span> to contradict myself, which I might possibly<br \/>\ndo, according to the vagaries of the moment.<br \/>\nI mean, simply by calling attention to one<br \/>\nthing rather than another&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t actually know much about Colby-<br \/>\nSawyer. I think that Jack Jensen may have the<br \/>\nblinders on, and of course Carl \u2013 whom I see<br \/>\nfrom time to time \u2013 is retired.<\/p>\n<p>I am so frightened for you all! Awful.<br \/>\nAnd of course it is not only awful for the<br \/>\nfuture \u2013 it is pretty awful in the present.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I hear about jobs on the market.<br \/>\nI know of nothing right now. I will not forget<br \/>\nyou \u2013 much as I would hate to think of you going<br \/>\nto West Texas or anything&#8230;\u00a0Love as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2457\" data-postid=\"2457\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2457 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 14 October 1983 Wesley McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, I think it would be best if I saw the old letter. Please get them to send it to me. Then I will bring it up to date and get it back to them right away. I think [&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":[35322,596,42965,35504,42982],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457"}],"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=2457"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10356,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457\/revisions\/10356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}