{"id":151,"date":"2007-11-06T11:10:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T16:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/11\/06\/a-life-in-prison-the-good-way\/"},"modified":"2007-11-06T11:10:14","modified_gmt":"2007-11-06T16:10:14","slug":"a-life-in-prison-the-good-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2007\/11\/a-life-in-prison-the-good-way\/","title":{"rendered":"A life in prison \u2014 the good way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/fb-glass_bill-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Bill Glass\" align=\"right\" \/> <a href=\"http:\/\/baylorbears.cstv.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/spec-rel\/051507aab.html\">Bill Glass<\/a> was Baylor football&#8217;s first unanimous consensus All-America selection, but for the past four decades, he&#8217;s dedicated himself to what is now known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billglasscfl.org\/\">Champions for Life<\/a>, a prison ministry Glass started three years after he finished a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/players\/GlasBi00.htm\">10-year NFL career<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Amarillo Globe-News<\/em> recently ran <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amarillo.com\/stories\/102807\/new_8783768.shtml\">a nice feature on Glass and his work<\/a>. According to the writer, Glass has spoken in over 400 prisons this year &#8212; at the age of 72, and after having suffered a stroke two years ago. He is one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegefootball.org\/famersearch.php?school=Baylor&amp;sortby=name\">nine former Bears in the College Football Hall of Fame<\/a>, but based on this article, it seems he&#8217;d rather talk about his work.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Bill Glass and Champions for Life!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Glass was Baylor football&#8217;s first unanimous consensus All-America selection, but for the past four decades, he&#8217;s dedicated himself to what is now known as Champions for Life, a prison ministry Glass started three years after he finished a 10-year NFL career. The Amarillo Globe-News recently ran a nice feature on Glass and his work. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-extraordinary-stories","category-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}