{"id":827,"date":"2013-05-29T16:33:15","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/?p=827"},"modified":"2017-06-14T16:33:10","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T16:33:10","slug":"827","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/2013\/05\/29\/827\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Settling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-828 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dance-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Ballerinas\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dance-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/06\/dance.jpg 432w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 29, 2013<\/p>\n<p>A promising dancer since the age of four, <strong>TIA FEATHER \u201912<\/strong> had her dreams of a career as a ballerina end with a high school automobile accident. Or so she thought.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Peter Sternberg, associate professor of health, exercise, and rehabilitative sciences at Winona State. When Feather was applying for internships to complete her health promotion degree, Sternberg insisted that she stick with her passion and seek a position related to dancers\u2019 health and wellness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe told me, \u2018Don\u2019t take the easy route and settle for just anything. Pursue what you love,\u2019\u201d Feather says of Sternberg. \u201cAnd he didn\u2019t let me take the easy route, either.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sixty applications later, Feather finally got a call from the Joffrey Ballet School, one of America\u2019s premier ballet schools. Following a 600-hour internship, the company hired Feather as its first health, wellness, and nutrition coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>Feather says that there\u2019s no set routine as she teaches, mentors, and monitors wellness and nutrition for highly driven dance students aged 14 to 28. Some days she\u2019s arranging housing in New York City, the Joffrey\u2019s home. On others, she might spend all night in the emergency room with an injured ballerina.<\/p>\n<p>While she\u2019s not performing herself, Feather is \u201csurrounded by dance every day. Just not the way I imagined.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 29, 2013 A promising dancer since the age of four, TIA FEATHER \u201912 had her dreams of a career as a ballerina end with a high school automobile accident. Or so she thought. Enter Peter Sternberg, associate professor of health, exercise, and rehabilitative sciences at Winona State. When Feather was applying for internships to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":1367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[392,388,389,394,390,393,391,7,8],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wsu-magazine","tag-accident","tag-ballet","tag-dance","tag-health-coordinator","tag-joffrey-ballet-school","tag-peter-sternberg","tag-tina-feather","tag-winona-state-university","tag-wsu"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s7PQMT-827","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2013\/05\/ballet.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}