{"id":2292,"date":"2010-03-28T10:40:05","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T14:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=2292"},"modified":"2010-03-28T10:40:05","modified_gmt":"2010-03-28T14:40:05","slug":"go-for-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/28\/go-for-it\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Go for it!&#8221;"},"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\/2010\/mar\/032810rocky3.png?resize=475%2C382\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"382\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>March 25, 2010<\/strong>, <strong>USAToday<\/strong> posted a piece showing how movie lines are making their way into the political debates on health care.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s where <strong>Sly<\/strong> comes in&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Then there&#8217;s the money line in Obama&#8217;s speech, his challenge to Republicans who want to repeal the health care bill: &#8220;Go for it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Oval can&#8217;t help but wonder if the president was flashing on the less-than-classic <em><a href=\"http:\/\/movies.yahoo.com\/movie\/1800112664\/info\" target=\"_blank\">Rocky III<\/a><\/em>, released in 1982. Before the big fight, Sylvester Stallone&#8217;s heroic underdog character is confronted by the evil Clubber Lang (played by none other than Mr. T.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to bust you up,&#8221; Clubber says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rocky&#8217;s response: &#8220;Go for it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Needless to say, Rocky triumphs and goes on to another sequel.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/communities\/theoval\/post\/2010\/03\/obama-reaches-for-movie-lines-in-health-care-battle\/1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>read the whole piece here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 25, 2010, USAToday posted a piece showing how movie lines are making their way into the political debates on health care.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s where Sly comes in&#8230; Then there&#8217;s the money line in Obama&#8217;s speech, his challenge to Republicans who want to repeal the health care bill: &#8220;Go for it.&#8221; The Oval can&#8217;t help [&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":[85,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-85","category-rocky-3"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-AY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292","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=2292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2292\/revisions\/2294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}