{"id":26567,"date":"2014-01-07T15:47:52","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T19:47:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=26567"},"modified":"2014-01-14T10:08:29","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T14:08:29","slug":"qa-michael-bridges-talks-his-first-job-working-out-and-wearing-polyester-suits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/01\/07\/qa-michael-bridges-talks-his-first-job-working-out-and-wearing-polyester-suits\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&amp;A: Michael Bridges talks his first job, working out and wearing polyester suits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14216\" style=\"width: 245px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2012\/06\/27\/fairborn-business-executive-michael-bridges-appointed-to-wright-state-university-board-of-trustees\/bridgesv\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14216\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14216\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14216\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2012\/06\/BridgesV-235x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Michael Bridges\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alumnus Michael Bridges, president of Peerless Technologies Corp.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><em>Excerpt<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Michael Bridges\u00a0fits that traditional definition of a go-getter and a family man.<\/p>\n<p>The president of Fairborn-based\u00a0Peerless Technologies Corp.\u00a0\u2014 who was born in Cincinnati and whose family moved to the Dayton area when he was in first grade \u2014 still beams with pride when he talks about his newest grandchild.<\/p>\n<p>Bridges, who describes himself as ambitious and impatient, graduated from Stebbins High School and\u00a0Wright State University, where he finished with a systems engineering\/mechanical degree. He took classes at Wright State while still a senior in high school and started working full-time in the industry \u2014 at the F-16 program office at\u00a0Wright-Patterson Air Force Base\u00a0through a defense contractor that\u2019s no longer around \u2014 while still a senior in college.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/dayton\/blog\/2014\/01\/qa-michael-bridges-talks-his-first.html?page=all\" target=\"_blank\">BizJournals.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Michael Bridges\u00a0fits that traditional definition of a go-getter and a family man. The president of Fairborn-based\u00a0Peerless Technologies Corp.\u00a0\u2014 who was born in Cincinnati and whose family moved to the Dayton area when he was in first grade \u2014 still &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2014\/01\/07\/qa-michael-bridges-talks-his-first-job-working-out-and-wearing-polyester-suits\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":14215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[733,714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26567"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26765,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26567\/revisions\/26765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}