{"id":37,"date":"2004-11-16T11:40:52","date_gmt":"2004-11-16T19:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2004\/11\/got_to_got_to_bleed_baby.html"},"modified":"2004-11-16T11:40:52","modified_gmt":"2004-11-16T19:40:52","slug":"got_to_got_to_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/11\/got_to_got_to_b.html","title":{"rendered":"Got to Got to Bleed Baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A poorman&#8217;s Pat Tillman, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2004\/SHOWBIZ\/Music\/11\/16\/people.roth.ap\/index.html\">former Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth reportedly is training in New York to become an EMT<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Roth, 50, has been riding for several weeks with a New York ambulance crew in training to become a paramedic, The New York Post reported Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been on over 200 individual rides now,&#8221; said Roth. &#8220;Not once has anyone recognized me, which is perfect for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The singer, who spent a decade with Van Halen before embarking on a solo career, except a collaboration with the band for two new songs on a greatest hits album, has been riding along with crews in the Bronx, Manhattan and Brooklyn several nights a week.<\/p>\n<p>His training seems to be going well.<\/p>\n<p>Several weeks ago, Roth saved the life of a heart attack victim in the Bronx by using a defibrillator.<\/p>\n<p>He takes his work so seriously that he did not want publicity so that it would not &#8220;diminish what I am trying to do here.&#8221; He has said that he did not want the neighborhoods he was working in named so that he would not draw attention to himself or co-workers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You would never know you were dealing with a rock-&#8216;n&#8217;-roll guy,&#8221; said Linda Reissman, Roth&#8217;s EMS consultant and tutor. &#8220;His commitment really is touching. He wants to help people.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Post title borrowed from 1978&#8217;s &#8220;Ain&#8217;t Talkin&#8217; &#8216;Bout Love&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A poorman&#8217;s Pat Tillman, former Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth reportedly is training in New York to become an EMT: Roth, 50, has been riding for several weeks with a New York ambulance crew in training to become a paramedic, The New York Post reported Tuesday. &#8220;I have been on over 200 individual rides [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}