{"id":1871,"date":"2009-11-15T13:06:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2009-11-15T13:06:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T17:06:10","slug":"meeting-frank-stallone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/15\/meeting-frank-stallone\/","title":{"rendered":"Meeting Frank Stallone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2009\/nov\/111509frank_cityline.jpg?resize=475%2C423\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"423\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>Sunday, November 8, 2009, Frank Stallone<\/strong> dropped by <strong>City Line Pizza<\/strong> in <strong>Edgewater, Florida<\/strong>.  Since the store co-owner,<strong> Joe V<\/strong>, is a <strong>SZoner<\/strong>, I was given advance notice and made plans to be there.  Talk about a cool experience.  <strong>Frank<\/strong> was totally down to earth and spent the time talking with fans, signing autographs and CDs.\u00a0 <strong>Frank<\/strong> has a new reality tv show in the works.\u00a0 Of course we&#8217;ll keep you updated as it moves closer to production.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2009\/nov\/111509frank.jpg?resize=475%2C356\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although <strong>Frank<\/strong> and I had exchanged e-mails over the years, it was my first time meeting him in person.  <strong>Frank<\/strong> was very gracious and thanked me for my efforts with the <strong>StalloneZone<\/strong>.  He explained that <strong>Sly<\/strong> doesn&#8217;t mess around on computers much and at first had reservations about someone using his name and creating a website about him.  <strong>Frank <\/strong>explained to <strong>Sly<\/strong> that &#8220;<strong>Craig <\/strong>is one of the good guys&#8221; and the <strong>StalloneZone<\/strong> is a positive place for <strong>Stallone<\/strong> fans to gather.  <strong>Frank<\/strong> also wanted to make sure that all <strong>SZoners<\/strong> knew how much he and<strong> Sly<\/strong> appreciated our support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2009\/nov\/111509frank_stephen.jpg?resize=475%2C356\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I also met a couple of other fans at <strong>Frank&#8217;s appearance<\/strong>.  The first, <strong>Stephen Isaia<\/strong>, is a huge <strong>Frank Stallone \/ StalloneZone<\/strong> fan.  <strong>Stephen<\/strong> flew down to <strong>Florida<\/strong> to attend a <strong>Frank Stallone<\/strong> concert and come to the store appearance.  It was a pleasure meeting <strong>Stephen<\/strong>.  I also met <strong>Mike Tourney<\/strong> who collects autographs and guitar pics.  <strong>Mike<\/strong> had an original <strong>Valentine<\/strong> record album for <strong>Frank<\/strong> to sign. <strong> Valentine<\/strong> was <strong>Frank&#8217;s band<\/strong> back in the <strong>pre-Rocky <\/strong>days.  Talk about rare!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll post more on<strong> Frank&#8217;s visit<\/strong> next weekend along with a few more photos.  The pictures today come to us from <strong>Stephen Isaia<\/strong>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, November 8, 2009, Frank Stallone dropped by City Line Pizza in Edgewater, Florida. Since the store co-owner, Joe V, is a SZoner, I was given advance notice and made plans to be there. Talk about a cool experience. Frank was totally down to earth and spent the time talking with fans, signing autographs [&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":[53,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-53","category-frank-stallone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-ub","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","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=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}