{"id":1494,"date":"2009-07-05T08:21:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T12:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=1494"},"modified":"2009-07-05T08:21:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T12:21:06","slug":"why-rocky-balboa-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/05\/why-rocky-balboa-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Why “Rocky Balboa” Works"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On June 27, 2009<\/strong>, Christopher Crespo<\/strong> at the Orlando Movie Examiner<\/strong> posted an article titled “Why Rocky Balboa Works Where the Other Rocky Sequels Failed”.\u00a0 Crespo <\/strong>actually has some good things to say about “Rocky II”<\/strong> and “Rocky III”<\/strong> but focuses his attention on how “Rocky Balboa”<\/strong> (like the original “Rocky”<\/strong>) mirrors what was happening in Sly’s life<\/strong> and “Stallone<\/strong> (didn’t) pretend things (were) different from what they (were).” <\/strong>You can read the full piece by clicking here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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On June 27, 2009, Christopher Crespo at the Orlando Movie Examiner posted an article titled “Why Rocky Balboa Works Where the Other Rocky Sequels Failed”.\u00a0 Crespo actually has some good things to say about “Rocky II” and “Rocky III” but focuses his attention on how “Rocky Balboa” (like the original “Rocky”) mirrors what was happening […]<\/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":[53,9,13,43,55,57,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-53","category-rocky","category-rocky-2","category-rocky-3","category-rocky-4","category-rocky-5","category-rocky-balboa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-o6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494","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=1494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}