{"id":3869,"date":"2012-08-15T10:13:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T14:13:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=3869"},"modified":"2013-12-18T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T21:38:09","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-october-21-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-october-21-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall, October 21, 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, October 21, 1984, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19841021-001-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, October 21, 1984, Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/McNair-Hall-19841021-001-unh.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;\">October 21, 1984<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don,<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I had a nightmare that I was asked<br \/>\nwith no forewarning to make a speech at a<br \/>\ntestimonial dinner for you. I still can\u2019t wake up!<\/p>\n<p>This is the absolute last straw for PSNH<br \/>\n(The Public Service Co.?). That society is like a<br \/>\ndisease which <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">must be stopped<\/span>!<\/p>\n<p>I would have liked to do that assignment<br \/>\nabove all others <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">right<\/span>. Oh, well. I can be glad<br \/>\nabout the main part of the day, at least:<br \/>\nThat you got the dinner, and most of all,<br \/>\nthat you read poems from the new manuscript<br \/>\nwhich prove once again you are entirely worthy,<br \/>\napart from any banquet or award.<\/p>\n<p>So the important things did happen,<br \/>\nin spite of all, and to hell with David Cote.<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>A note from McNair about this letter:<\/strong><\/em><\/span> David Cote is the president of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire, who turned to me at the banquet without any forewarning and asked me to make a speech on Don&#8217;s behalf.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3869\" data-postid=\"3869\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3869 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] October 21, 1984 Dear Don, Yesterday, I had a nightmare that I was asked with no forewarning to make a speech at a testimonial dinner for you. I still can\u2019t wake up! This is the absolute last straw for PSNH (The Public Service Co.?). That society is like a disease which [&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\/3869"}],"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=3869"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11225,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3869\/revisions\/11225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}