{"id":20070,"date":"2013-03-18T15:15:42","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20070"},"modified":"2013-03-18T15:15:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T19:15:42","slug":"rapper-tone-loc-collapses-on-stage-during-iowa-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=20070","title":{"rendered":"Rapper Tone Loc Collapses On Stage During Iowa Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper <strong>Tone Loc<\/strong> didn&#8217;t want to be hospitalized after collapsing on stage during a weekend performance in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t the rapper&#8217;s first time collapsing on stage;<strong>\u00a0Tone Loc\u00a0<\/strong>had a seizure and collapsed during a 2009 concert in Pensacola, Fla.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Loc<\/strong>, whose real name is <strong>Anthony T. Smith<\/strong>, collapsed after finishing a song during a Saturday night concert on a downtown Des Moines bridge.<\/p>\n<p>The concert ended abruptly while the 47-year-old was treated. Three employees of the Des Moines Register who were at the show said several minutes after <strong>Loc <\/strong>collapsed, fans were asked to leave.<\/p>\n<p>Police <strong>Sgt. Steve Woody <\/strong>told the newspaper that paramedics responded after<strong> Loc<\/strong> collapsed, but he refused to be taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Loc&#8217;s<\/strong> representative did not respond to messages Sunday, and it wasn&#8217;t clear why he collapsed.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said he had apparently overheated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper Tone Loc didn&#8217;t want to be hospitalized after collapsing on stage during a weekend performance in Iowa. It wasn&#8217;t the rapper&#8217;s first time collapsing on stage;\u00a0Tone Loc\u00a0had a seizure and collapsed during a 2009 concert in Pensacola, Fla. Loc, whose real name is Anthony T. Smith, collapsed after finishing a song during a Saturday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}