{"id":3899,"date":"2012-08-15T11:28:50","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T15:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=3899"},"modified":"2013-11-06T19:30:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T23:30:03","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-november-19-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-november-19-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair, November 19, 1984"},"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, November 19, 1984, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/Hall-McNair-19841119-001-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, November 19, 1984, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/Hall-McNair-19841119-001-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;\">19 November 1984<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nHominy Pot Rd.<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH 03260<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>You will get worse than this! Cheer up. This is condescending<br \/>\nbut it is not murderous. I hate this stupid little review\u2026but<br \/>\ncheer up, it will get much worse. You will be reviewed by people<br \/>\nwho want you to die very slowly, in public, while thousands of people<br \/>\nlaugh\u2026 It is a wonderful feeling, this hatred and loathing from<br \/>\nstrangers.<\/p>\n<p>So why did we go into this racket anyway? I cannot always tell<br \/>\nyou. No, I have no idea who reviews there.<\/p>\n<p>Did the University of Missouri send it to you? They shouldn\u2019t<br \/>\ndo it. But they almost always will. And if they don\u2019t, there is<br \/>\nalways some \u201cfriend\u201d somewhere who will do It for you. Cheer up!<br \/>\nThe worst is yet to come\u2026 When you get more famous. Something to<br \/>\nlook forward to!<\/p>\n<p>Jane said you did a marvelous reading. I look forward very much<br \/>\nto seeing you at the Gray House, six o\u2019clock on the 3rd\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Best 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-3899\" data-postid=\"3899\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3899 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 19 November 1984 Wes McNair Hominy Pot Rd. North Sutton, NH 03260 Dear Wes, You will get worse than this! Cheer up. This is condescending but it is not murderous. I hate this stupid little review\u2026but cheer up, it will get much worse. You will be reviewed by people who want [&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":[60366,596,42965,35504,77589],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899"}],"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=3899"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10743,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3899\/revisions\/10743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}