{"id":3760,"date":"2012-08-10T16:41:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T20:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2013-12-18T17:23:38","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T21:23:38","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-june-29-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-june-29-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall, June 29, 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, June 29, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840629-001-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, June 29, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840629-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, June 29, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840629-002-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, June 29, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840629-002-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;\">June 29, 1984<br \/>\nDear Don,<\/p>\n<p>I will wait until the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ironwood<\/span> publication of these<br \/>\npoems before submitting to Wallace. You are right<br \/>\nthat the poems are not light, though I thought they<br \/>\nmight work under the category of \u201cfunny\u201d (another<br \/>\nadjective Wallace uses in his ad). True, they\u2019re<br \/>\nnot exactly \u201cfunny\u201d, either, since the humor is<br \/>\ncomplicated. Thanks for telling me about the date of<br \/>\nthe NH Poet Laureate ritual. Spent the afternoon fitting<br \/>\nthe book-to-be together (there are still a few poems to go)<br \/>\nand I\u2019m newly excited about the total design of the thing \u2013<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3760\" data-postid=\"3760\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3760 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] June 29, 1984 Dear Don, I will wait until the Ironwood publication of these poems before submitting to Wallace. You are right that the poems are not light, though I thought they might work under the category of \u201cfunny\u201d (another adjective Wallace uses in his ad). True, they\u2019re not exactly \u201cfunny\u201d, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"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\/3760"}],"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\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11213,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions\/11213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}