{"id":1614,"date":"2009-08-24T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=1614"},"modified":"2009-08-30T08:54:45","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T12:54:45","slug":"rocky-stands-tall-in-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2009\/08\/24\/rocky-stands-tall-in-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Stands Tall in Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a touching little article at <strong>CaliforniaChronicle.com<\/strong> that ran on <strong>August 24, 2009<\/strong>.\u00a0 It concerns a poor little hamlet in <strong>Serbia<\/strong> where the town folk decided to erect a statue of <strong>Rocky\u00a0Balboa<\/strong> in\u00a0tribute to the ultimate underdog.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Film maker<strong> Barry Avrich<\/strong> went to the village and planned to make a <strong>&#8220;Borat&#8221;-style<\/strong> documentary making fun of the whole thing.\u00a0\u00a0However, once he arrived he was moved by how sincere the villagers were.\u00a0\u00a0 The statue was made of cement because they couldn&#8217;t afford bronze.\u00a0 <strong>Avrich&#8217;s film<\/strong> took a whole new direction.\u00a0 He was even able to interview <strong>Sylvester Stallone<\/strong> who in turn was so moved by the villagers that he taped a special message that played\u00a0for the\u00a0huge crowds that turned out during the three day celebration leading up to the unveiling of the statue.\u00a0<strong> Barry Avrich&#8217;s<\/strong> documentary, <strong>&#8220;American Idol&#8221; <\/strong>is now on the festival circuit and has qualified for the <strong>Oscars<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full article, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiachronicle.com\/articles\/yb\/134496548\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a touching little article at CaliforniaChronicle.com that ran on August 24, 2009.\u00a0 It concerns a poor little hamlet in Serbia where the town folk decided to erect a statue of Rocky\u00a0Balboa in\u00a0tribute to the ultimate underdog.\u00a0 Film maker Barry Avrich went to the village and planned to make a &#8220;Borat&#8221;-style documentary making fun of [&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":[53,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-53","category-rocky-balboa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-q2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614","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=1614"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1615,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1614\/revisions\/1615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}