{"id":10611,"date":"2003-07-28T16:14:34","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T20:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=10611"},"modified":"2018-12-08T16:17:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T20:17:12","slug":"rocky-still-a-great-example","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2003\/07\/28\/rocky-still-a-great-example\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rocky&#8221; Still a Great Example"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Michael Booth<\/strong> of <strong>The Denver Post <\/strong>in his <strong>July 27, 2006<\/strong> column explores the fact that &#8220;not all box-office hits had great expectations.&#8221; <strong>Booth<\/strong> lists <strong>eight movies<\/strong> that defied all expectations and<strong> &#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/strong> makes the cut. Here&#8217;s what he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/strong> cost less than <strong>$1 million<\/strong>, was the brainchild of then-nobody <strong>Sylvester Stallone<\/strong> and sported an underdog plot considered naive for a troubled year like <strong>1976<\/strong>. It made <strong>$117 million<\/strong> and won the <strong>best-picture Oscar<\/strong>.<strong>Thirty years <\/strong>later and <strong>&#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/strong> is still getting props. And rightly so.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the full report, click <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/1553\/story\/578496.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>. &#8211; <strong>Craig<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Booth of The Denver Post in his July 27, 2006 column explores the fact that &#8220;not all box-office hits had great expectations.&#8221; Booth lists eight movies that defied all expectations and &#8220;Rocky&#8221; makes the cut. Here&#8217;s what he says: &#8220;Rocky&#8221; cost less than $1 million, was the brainchild of then-nobody Sylvester Stallone and sported [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-78","category-honors","category-rocky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-2L9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10612,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10611\/revisions\/10612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}