{"id":705,"date":"2012-01-10T14:32:27","date_gmt":"2012-01-10T18:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=705"},"modified":"2013-12-09T13:44:23","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T17:44:23","slug":"mcnair-to-hall-january-27-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/mcnair-to-hall-january-27-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"McNair to Hall: January 27, 1977"},"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, January 27, 1977. Milne Special Collections and Archives, University of New Hampshire.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19770127-001-unh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"McNair-to-Hall-1-27-1977\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/McNair-Hall-19770127-001-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;\">January 27, 1977<\/p>\n<p>Dear Don \u2013<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m so surprised and pleased at the same time,<br \/>\nI could spit! Right out of the blue, that call<br \/>\nfrom Stephen Bloom! I\u2019m awfully grateful<br \/>\nyou thought of me as a poet for Marietta<br \/>\nCollege. Can\u2019t think how to tell you what that<br \/>\nmeans to me, except to say that I\u2019m now<br \/>\neven higher than before ! Is there really a<br \/>\nworld down there or did I only imagine it?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks so very much.<\/p>\n<p>Yrs,<\/p>\n<p>Wes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><em><strong>Editorial note about this letter:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The invitation from Marietta College was for a week-long NEA residency in late February.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-705\" data-postid=\"705\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-705 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] January 27, 1977 Dear Don \u2013 I\u2019m so surprised and pleased at the same time, I could spit! Right out of the blue, that call from Stephen Bloom! I\u2019m awfully grateful you thought of me as a poet for Marietta College. Can\u2019t think how to tell you what that means 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":[27136,35504,35505,42963,293],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705"}],"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=705"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10868,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705\/revisions\/10868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}