{"id":7162,"date":"2020-04-20T00:41:31","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T07:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=7162"},"modified":"2020-04-20T00:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T07:41:31","slug":"reality-star-pitches-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2020\/04\/20\/reality-star-pitches-in\/","title":{"rendered":"Reality Star Pitches In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <strong><em>Ask Billy<\/em><\/strong> question comes from <strong>Kurt <\/strong>in Phoenix.&nbsp; <em>\u201cIs <strong>Dan Renzi <\/strong>[from <\/em><strong>The Real World Miami<\/strong><em>] now a nurse?&nbsp; There was someone who kinda looked like him on with <strong>Rachel Maddow <\/strong>last week.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Yup, that was him.&nbsp; Since his time on MTV back in 1996, Dan has gone through a plethora of professions, until he stumbled upon what he really wanted to do \u2013 help people.&nbsp; He\u2019s been a nurse for almost a decade and has most recently been living in Kansas.&nbsp; However, the moment NYC became ground zero and the need for healthcare workers became dire, he immediately uprooted himself and went to pitch in.&nbsp; Some of the experiences he related to Maddow were sobering.&nbsp; \u201cIf you told me that not too many years after I graduated that I would be living in a hotel in New York while I was putting bodies in body bags because this mysterious virus was mowing down everybody\u2019s grandparents\u2026how do you process that?\u201d&nbsp; Again, the new normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Ask Billy question comes from Kurt in Phoenix.&nbsp; \u201cIs Dan Renzi [from The Real World Miami] now a nurse?&nbsp; There was someone who kinda looked like him on with Rachel Maddow last week.\u201d Yup, that was him.&nbsp; Since his time on MTV back in 1996, Dan has gone through a plethora of professions, until<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7163,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7162\/revisions\/7163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}