{"id":17624,"date":"2024-01-26T01:44:59","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/how-to-feed-elise-ball-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-01-26T01:50:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T20:50:24","slug":"coach-neurologist-christa-fairbrother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/coach-neurologist-christa-fairbrother\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Neurologist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">You set the board, a field of alternating black and white\nsquares. Multi-level, like Star Trek, to consider time, space,\nall dimensions. Bolt to the boundary of the table, stay in the\nlines, ignore the teeth menacing at the edges of my field of\nvision. Shift to the rook, you circle, gaze down with one eye\nbefore you turn to use the other, dive when I spy. Castle to\nprotect my kingdom. The knight jousts through, upending\neverything, and we start again.\n\nCount backward, repeat the words in order, follow your\nfinger. I breeze through the brackets, even win in the final\nseconds of the game, crowd on the edge of their seats, but\nstill leave defeated.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull bio-group has-smoke-background-color has-background is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:2rem;padding-bottom:2rem\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Bio<\/h2>\n\n\n            <div class=\"wp-block-media-text bio is-stacked-on-mobile is-vertically-aligned-bottom is-image-fill\" style=\"grid-template-columns:33% auto\"> \r\n                <figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/christa-fairbrother.png);background-position:50% 50%\">\r\n                    <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/christa-fairbrother.png\" alt=\"Photo of a woman in front of a pale beige or off-white wall. The woman is slightly off-centre, smiling and looking off to the right. Her long hair is pulled back in a ponytail.\" \/>\r\n                <\/figure>\r\n                <div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\r\n                    <h3 class=\"author-bio-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/editorials\/creator\/christa-fairbrother\/\">Christa Fairbrother<\/a><\/h3>\r\n                    <p><strong>Christa Fairbrother<\/strong>, MA, is a Florida-based Pushcart Prize nominated author living with chronic illnesses. Her poetry has appeared in <em>DMQ Review<\/em>, <em>Medical Literary Messenger<\/em>, <em>Stoneboat<\/em>, <em>The London Reader<\/em>, and <em>Unbroken<\/em>, among others. She\u2019s also wrote the multiple award-winning book <em>Water Yoga<\/em> (Singing Dragon, 2022). She\u2019s been a resident with the Sundress Academy for the Arts, and her chapbook was a finalist for the Kari Ann Flickinger Memorial Prize. Connect with her: www.christafairbrotherwrites.com or @christafairbrotherwrites on IG.<\/p>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n          <\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You set the board, a field of alternating black and white squares. Multi-level, like Star Trek, to consider time, space, all dimensions. Bolt to the boundary of the table, stay in the lines, ignore the teeth menacing at the edges of my field of vision. Shift to the rook, you circle, gaze down with one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"3304","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"16394,17284,16691,16965","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3304],"tags":[],"genre":[150],"publisher":[],"issue":[],"poet-in-residence":[],"series":[3262],"topic":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17624"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17630,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17624\/revisions\/17630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17624"},{"taxonomy":"genre","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/genre?post=17624"},{"taxonomy":"publisher","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publisher?post=17624"},{"taxonomy":"issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue?post=17624"},{"taxonomy":"poet-in-residence","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/poet-in-residence?post=17624"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=17624"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arcpoetry.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=17624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}