{"id":2031,"date":"2009-12-13T03:06:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T07:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=2031"},"modified":"2009-12-13T08:50:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T12:50:51","slug":"the-expendables-makes-the-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2009\/12\/13\/the-expendables-makes-the-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Expendables&#8221; Makes the Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><\/strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2009\/oct\/101309expendables.jpg?resize=475%2C260\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>December 9, 2009<\/strong>, <strong>Canada.com<\/strong> posted a list of <strong>Ten Films for 2010<\/strong>.\u00a0 It included the <strong>ten films<\/strong> that critic <strong>Jay Stone<\/strong> is most looking forward to seeing next year and included: <strong>&#8220;The Book of Eli&#8221;, &#8220;Shutter Island&#8221;, &#8220;Iron Man 2&#8221;, &#8220;Toy Story 3&#8221;, &#8220;The Expendables&#8221;<\/strong> and more.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what he had to say about <strong>&#8220;The Expendables&#8221;<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Expendables: A bunch of mercenaries take on a job in South America, and if Stallone and company aren&#8217;t enough, it also features Bruce Willis, Mickey Rourke, and Arnold Schwarzenegger (hey, who&#8217;s managing the California budget overrun?) This could be a classic of its type, and if they weren&#8217;t all in such good shape, we&#8217;d be tempted to call it The Expandables. But we can&#8217;t. (Aug. 20)<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/entertainment\/movie-guide\/Look+ahead+films+2010\/2320999\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>You can read the full piece here.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On December 9, 2009, Canada.com posted a list of Ten Films for 2010.\u00a0 It included the ten films that critic Jay Stone is most looking forward to seeing next year and included: &#8220;The Book of Eli&#8221;, &#8220;Shutter Island&#8221;, &#8220;Iron Man 2&#8221;, &#8220;Toy Story 3&#8221;, &#8220;The Expendables&#8221; and more.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what he had to say about [&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":[53,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-53","category-expendables"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-wL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031","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=2031"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2033,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2031\/revisions\/2033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}