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The\u00a0S<\/span>talloneZ<\/span>one<\/b>\u00a0was created in 1996. Since our inception, we have always posted updates\u00a0at least<\/b>\u00a0once a week. We take great pride in that we have\u00a0NEVER<\/b>\u00a0missed an update. Before going on vacation, I would always update\u00a0TWO<\/b>\u00a0Galleries, and\u00a0John “Big” Beatty<\/b>\u00a0would post our new\u00a0POW<\/b>\u00a0as well as any “breaking” news. Needless to say, it was very frustrating to find out that the\u00a0SZ<\/span><\/b>\u00a0was down. What was even more frustrating was the fact that had I been at home I could have resolved the matter with a\u00a0single<\/b>\u00a0e-mail. After several phone calls I was able to get in contact with the server for the\u00a0SZ<\/span><\/b>. I was assured that the\u00a0SZ<\/span><\/b>\u00a0would be back on-line within three hours. I contacted\u00a0BigBeatty<\/b>\u00a0to let him know. He said he would get the\u00a0POW<\/b>\u00a0up right away and send out an e-mail to all\u00a0SZ<\/span>oners<\/b>. Everything was right again, or so I thought.<\/p>\n Two days later I was able to get to a computer and I discovered that the\u00a0SZ<\/span><\/b>\u00a0was still down. After several more phone calls I was assured that the problem was corrected. I contacted\u00a0BigBeatty<\/b>\u00a0and he confirmed we were back in action. Whew!<\/p>\n Although we were able to get our\u00a0POW<\/b>\u00a0up (and keep our record intact), we were very late in doing so. For that I want to apologize. From the e-mails and message board postings that I have received so far, it seems that most of you were aware of the problem (thanks,\u00a0BigJ<\/b>) and how we were working to correct it (thanks again,\u00a0BigJ<\/b>). We have several updates scheduled for this week. So,\u00a0thanks again<\/b>\u00a0for your patience and kind words. I’ve said it before and will say it again (because it is so true):\u00a0Sylvester Stallone has the best fans in the world!<\/b><\/p>\n – Craig Zablo (June 16, 2001)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The\u00a0StalloneZone\u00a0was created in 1996. Since our inception, we have always posted updates\u00a0at least\u00a0once a week. We take great pride in that we have\u00a0NEVER\u00a0missed an update. Before going on vacation, I would always update\u00a0TWO\u00a0Galleries, and\u00a0John “Big” Beatty\u00a0would post our new\u00a0POW\u00a0as well as any “breaking” news. This system had always worked flawlessly… until last week. While I […]<\/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":[69,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-69","category-stallonezone"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-3aw","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184","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=12184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12185,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12184\/revisions\/12185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis system had always worked flawlessly… until last week. While I was on vacation, my credit card company sent out new cards with new numbers. Unfortunately this happened during a billing cycle for the\u00a0SZ<\/span><\/b>, and to make matters worse, I have the\u00a0SZ<\/span><\/b>\u00a0automatically paid on the same credit card. To complicate matters even more, I was on vacation in the “wilds” of North Carolina and had\u00a0no<\/b>\u00a0easy internet access!<\/p>\n