{"id":1444,"date":"2009-05-31T06:07:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-31T10:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2009-05-31T06:08:53","modified_gmt":"2009-05-31T10:08:53","slug":"rocky-ii-the-forgotten-rocky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/31\/rocky-ii-the-forgotten-rocky\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Rocky II &#8211; The Forgotten Rocky&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2009\/may\/052509rocky2.jpg?resize=333%2C500\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Christopher Crespo<\/strong> writes a nice piece called <strong>&#8220;Rocky II &#8211; The Forgotten Rocky&#8221;<\/strong> for<strong> Examiner.com <\/strong>[and I would have said that even if they hadn&#8217;t used a <strong>StalloneZone<\/strong> photo!].\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a few quotes:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rocky<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> <\/span>was about being the underdog and taking that one in a million shot, then <strong><span>Rocky II<\/span> <\/strong>is about that underdog finding out what his role is in this game called life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Much more character based than <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rocky III-V<\/span>, <strong><span>Rocky II<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> <\/span><\/strong>shows a predilection for character development and drama arising out of these characters interactions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><span>Rocky II<\/span><\/strong> deserves to be remembered better, and should take its place alongside <span>Rocky <\/span>and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rocky Balboa<\/span> as excellent installments about the seminal underdog. <strong>Stallone&#8217;s direction<\/strong> is fine, and not without a few inspired camera moves and choice moments.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">You can read the full article<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/x-7322-Orlando-Film-Examiner~y2009m5d25-Rocky-II--the-forgotten-Rocky-film\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> right here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christopher Crespo writes a nice piece called &#8220;Rocky II &#8211; The Forgotten Rocky&#8221; for Examiner.com [and I would have said that even if they hadn&#8217;t used a StalloneZone photo!].\u00a0 Here&#8217;s a few quotes: If Rocky was about being the underdog and taking that one in a million shot, then Rocky II is about that underdog [&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":[53,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-53","category-rocky-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-ni","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","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=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}