{"id":2783,"date":"2010-01-13T10:56:26","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T15:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=2783"},"modified":"2010-01-13T10:56:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T15:56:26","slug":"freshmans-musical-talents-lead-to-scholarship-and-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/01\/freshmans-musical-talents-lead-to-scholarship-and-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Freshman\u2019s musical talents lead to scholarship and service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"munoz-jan10\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/munoz-jan10.jpg\" alt=\"Manuel Munoz\" width=\"225\" height=\"282\" \/>Freshman Manuel Munoz is a talented musician &#8212; three times an all-state trumpet player in high school, and one of five trumpeters chosen as a member of the Texas State Jazz Ensemble. His skills led to a Baylor music scholarship, but as he works to further improve his play as a music major, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacotrib.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/2009\/12\/25\/12252009wacSAbellringer.html\" target=\"_blank\">he&#8217;s also using his talent to help others<\/a> as a member of a Salvation Army band.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;God\u2019s just blessed me with the gift of music, and I want to give back to him what he\u2019s given to me,\u201d he told the <em>Waco Tribune-Herald<\/em>. A third-generation Salvation Army member, the Austin native first starting helping out by volunteering to feed the homeless at age 6; he began playing in a Salvation Army church band at age 9. Through his service has had the opportunity to travel to places such as Trinidad, Tobago, Fiji and Mexico City. &#8220;We may not speak the same language, but we\u2019ll be able to praise the same God through music,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Manuel!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freshman Manuel Munoz is a talented musician &#8212; three times an all-state trumpet player in high school, and one of five trumpeters chosen as a member of the Texas State Jazz Ensemble. His skills led to a Baylor music scholarship, but as he works to further improve his play as a music major, he&#8217;s also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-extraordinary-stories","category-service","category-student-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}