{"id":2523,"date":"2012-05-10T16:02:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-10T20:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2013-12-18T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T20:27:03","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-march-18-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-march-18-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: March 18, 1984"},"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, March 18, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19840318-001-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, March 18, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19840318-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, March 18, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19840318-002-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, March 18, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/05\/McNair-Hall-19840318-002-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;\">March 18, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>I will respond to your long letter <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">shortly<\/span>.<br \/>\nIn the meantime, could you please tell me why you think<br \/>\nI should place a comma \u201cafter the his\u201d in the last stanza<br \/>\nof \u201cThe Shooting\u201d. The reason for no comma is I don\u2019t want<br \/>\nambiguity about who is calling \u201chis name\u201d (it\u2019s not \u201cthey\u201d<br \/>\ndoing the calling; it\u2019s \u201cthe face\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Thanks&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>A note from McNair about this letter:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> Here begins my questioning of the single comma Don proposes for &#8220;The Shooting.&#8221; I ponder that comma off and on with him until my letter of May 6, when I at last see the logic of the change&#8211;also changing, in the end, the line break of the poem&#8217;s third to last line. To read the May 6 letter and the poem&#8217;s published version, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-may-6-1984\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">click here<\/span><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-2523\" data-postid=\"2523\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-2523 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] March 18, 1984 Dear Don, I will respond to your long letter shortly. In the meantime, could you please tell me why you think I should place a comma \u201cafter the his\u201d in the last stanza of \u201cThe Shooting\u201d. The reason for no comma is I don\u2019t want ambiguity about who [&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":[60366,35504,77589,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523"}],"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=2523"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11188,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2523\/revisions\/11188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}