{"id":3843,"date":"2012-08-15T09:41:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T13:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2013-11-06T16:51:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T20:51:20","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-september-16-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-september-16-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall, September 16, 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, September 16, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840916-001-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, September 16, 1984, Page 1, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840916-001-unh.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from McNair to Hall, September 16, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840916-002-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, September 16, 1984, Page 2, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19840916-002-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;\">September 16, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>I am now trying to get together a batch<br \/>\nof poems for Joey. Will you let me know<br \/>\nwhether you think this one is ready for<br \/>\nthe batch?<\/p>\n<p>The past 2-3 weeks have been taken over<br \/>\nby course preparation for Dartmouth (I<br \/>\nstart Monday). I\u2019m hoping that by<br \/>\nspending so much time before the term starts,<br \/>\nI\u2019ll be able to create room for writing.<br \/>\nI know I\u2019ll have more time this term<br \/>\nthan I would normally have at CSC.<br \/>\nWill soon know <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">how<\/span> much more!<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/p>\n<p>PERLEY HUNT WALKING<\/p>\n<p>Perley Hunt is off<br \/>\nbalance. Each day<\/p>\n<p>the part of him<br \/>\nthat is no longer<\/p>\n<p>afraid to fall, and the part<br \/>\nof him that is,<\/p>\n<p>argue all the way<br \/>\nto the mail.<\/p>\n<p>People who come out<br \/>\nof the postoffice see<\/p>\n<p>him walking,<br \/>\nby almost falling down<\/p>\n<p>on one side<br \/>\nand on the alternate<\/p>\n<p>other, holding aloft<br \/>\nthe bony wing<\/p>\n<p>of his cane,<br \/>\nand in this moment<\/p>\n<p>not one thinks<br \/>\nof his bad luck<\/p>\n<p>or of the lucky life<br \/>\nhe might have had.<\/p>\n<p>None thinks of any life<br \/>\nbeyond these hands<\/p>\n<p>slowly passing a cane<br \/>\nback and forth,<\/p>\n<p>this miracle of walking<br \/>\non the undulant earth.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3843\" data-postid=\"3843\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3843 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] September 16, 1984 Dear Don, I am now trying to get together a batch of poems for Joey. Will you let me know whether you think this one is ready for the batch? The past 2-3 weeks have been taken over by course preparation for Dartmouth (I start Monday). I\u2019m hoping [&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\/3843"}],"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=3843"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10680,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions\/10680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}