{"id":5320,"date":"2016-04-11T10:51:37","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T14:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/?p=5320"},"modified":"2025-03-20T09:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T13:43:26","slug":"celebrating-20-years-esp-first-grad-marco-bailetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/2016\/celebrating-20-years-esp-first-grad-marco-bailetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating 20 years of ESP with our first grad, Marco Bailetti!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Celebrating 20 years of ESP with our first grad, Marco Bailetti!\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Marco Bailetti always knew he wanted to continue his education after finishing high school. But at the age of 18, he felt he wasn\u2019t ready \u2014 he was bored at school and his grades weren\u2019t good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So instead of going to university, he joined the U.S. Air Force. Bailetti was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and had always felt a patriotic duty to serve his country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After serving in the military for four years as a jet engine mechanic, he applied to Carleton University\u2019s Enriched Support Program (ESP), which he\u2019d heard about from his father Tony Bailetti, who has taught at Carleton for more than three decades. <a href=\"http:\/\/carletonnow.carleton.ca\/april-2016\/support-program-helped-student-transition-from-military\/?fb_action_ids=10153422722747477&amp;fb_action_types=og.likes\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Bailetti always knew he wanted to continue his education after finishing high school. But at the age of 18, he felt he wasn\u2019t ready \u2014 he was bored at school and his grades weren\u2019t good. So instead of going to university, he joined the U.S. Air Force. Bailetti was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":"news-1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5320"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5322,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5320\/revisions\/5322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}