{"id":852,"date":"2012-01-17T17:24:11","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T21:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=852"},"modified":"2013-12-09T15:42:43","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T19:42:43","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-april-16-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-april-16-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: April 16, 1977"},"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, April 16, 1977, Page 1. Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19770416-001-colby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid gray; background: white;\" alt=\"Hall-to-McNair-4-16-1977-Page-1\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19770416-001-colby.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><a class=\"shutterset\" title=\"Letter from Hall to McNair, April 16, 1977, Page 2. Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19770416-002-colby.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-2078 alignleft\" style=\"border: 0px none; background: white; display: none;\" alt=\"Hall-to-McNair-4-16-1977-Page-2\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19770416-002-colby.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;\">16 April 77<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your letter. It makes<br \/>\nme feel very good. I was a little<br \/>\nworried about the slurred words I<br \/>\nhad to repeat! I guess I shouldn\u2019t<br \/>\nworry. I read the new one again this<br \/>\nmorning at Mt. Holyoke, with a few<br \/>\nchanges since last Monday. I\u2019m<br \/>\nfeeling good about it.<br \/>\nNow I\u2019ve got eight readings coming<br \/>\nup. South Carolina, Maryland, Alabama,<br \/>\nOklahoma. I look forward to seeing<br \/>\nyou &amp; Diane when things settle down a little.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m hoping you don\u2019t go to Chile so we<br \/>\ncan keep you around. But if you go, you\u2019ll<br \/>\ncome back &#8211; &amp; maybe it will be good for<br \/>\nyour poems to have such a change of<br \/>\nscene. I learned so much about the<br \/>\nU.S. by going away from it for a while.<\/p>\n<p>As <del datetime=\"2012-01-24T21:53:54+00:00\">so as<\/del> soon as I\u2019m ready to<br \/>\nshow that poem to anybody, I\u2019ll show<br \/>\nit to you.<\/p>\n<p>Best,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-852\" data-postid=\"852\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-852 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 16 April 77 Dear Wes&#8211; Thanks for your letter. It makes me feel very good. I was a little worried about the slurred words I had to repeat! I guess I shouldn\u2019t worry. I read the new one again this morning at Mt. Holyoke, with a few changes since last Monday. [&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":[27136,596,42965,35504,35505],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852"}],"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=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10878,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/10878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}