{"id":3906,"date":"2012-08-15T11:34:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-15T15:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=3906"},"modified":"2013-12-18T17:42:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T21:42:25","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-december-26-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-december-26-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair, December 26, 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, December 26, 1984, Colby College Special Collections\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/Hall-McNair-19841226-001-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, December 26, 1984, Colby College Special Collections\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/08\/Hall-McNair-19841226-001-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;\">26 December 1984<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nBox 43<br \/>\nNorth Sutton, NH<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>What a lovely thing! It hangs on the hangers behind the<br \/>\nstove in the livingroom, but eventually my excessive modesty<br \/>\nwill cause me to remove it to a more private place\u2026unless<br \/>\nmy excessive modesty of course allows me to wear it in public.<br \/>\nI love it. So does Jane. And all our visitors have been looking<br \/>\nat it and loving it and laughing. Thank you so much! You are<br \/>\na dear, and you please me no end. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Love to you and Diane, as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong><em>A note from McNair about this letter:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/span><em> <\/em>Don refers here to a gift I sent him, a sweatshirt bearing the words \u00a0&#8220;N.H. Laureate of Poultry&#8221;&#8211;the shirt in green and the words in white, which are New Hampshire&#8217;s official colors.<\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3906\" data-postid=\"3906\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3906 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 26 December 1984 Wes McNair Box 43 North Sutton, NH Dear Wes, What a lovely thing! It hangs on the hangers behind the stove in the livingroom, but eventually my excessive modesty will cause me to remove it to a more private place\u2026unless my excessive modesty of course allows me to [&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\/3906"}],"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=3906"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11233,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3906\/revisions\/11233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}