{"id":988,"date":"2012-01-19T17:08:56","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T21:08:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?p=988"},"modified":"2013-10-16T22:46:03","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T02:46:03","slug":"hall-to-mcnair-november-1-1978","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/hall-to-mcnair-november-1-1978\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall to McNair: November 1, 1978"},"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 1, 1978. Colby College Special Collections.\" href=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19781101-001-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-11-1-1978\" src=\"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/files\/2012\/01\/Hall-McNair-19781101-001-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;\">1 November 1978<\/p>\n<p>Wes McNair<br \/>\nNo. Sutton<br \/>\nNew Hampshire<\/p>\n<p>Dear Wes,<\/p>\n<p>It seems so silly, to have you back here from Chile &#8211; and<br \/>\nme looking forward to your return &#8211; and then not to call you up<br \/>\nand drag you over here. It seems to me that this has happened<br \/>\nbefore, in my life. I am working, approximately, from about 5:30<br \/>\nAM to 10 PM. And I\u2019m not going to tell you that I don\u2019t enjoy it,<br \/>\nbecause I do. But life is full. \u2026And we do look forward to seeing<br \/>\nyou. We have several times hit on a date, between us, when we were<br \/>\ngoing to ask you &#8211; but had to hold off, and then seen the time go.<br \/>\nProbably it would have been difficult for you to come over, any<br \/>\none of these days, anyway. But we must give it a try.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m delighted that you like the book. Wonderful. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Remembering<br \/>\nPoets<\/span> is coming out in paperback in January. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Kicking the Leaves<\/span><br \/>\nsold out its first printing, and has been reprinted. Things are<br \/>\ngoing quite well.<\/p>\n<p>I do look forward to your volume of poems. I certainly do<br \/>\nwant to see it, and I hope I can be of some help.<\/p>\n<p>Best as ever,<\/p>\n<p>Don<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-988\" data-postid=\"988\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-988 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Click image to view] 1 November 1978 Wes McNair No. Sutton New Hampshire Dear Wes, It seems so silly, to have you back here from Chile &#8211; and me looking forward to your return &#8211; and then not to call you up and drag you over here. It seems to me that this has happened [&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":[35316,596,42965,35504,35505],"tags":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988"}],"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=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9101,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/9101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}