{"id":2677,"date":"2010-07-04T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=2677"},"modified":"2010-07-04T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T18:49:00","slug":"rocky-balboa-is-the-american-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2010\/07\/04\/rocky-balboa-is-the-american-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Balboa IS the American Spirit"},"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\/july\/070410rocky.png?resize=475%2C242\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"242\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In honor of <strong>Independence Day<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Cinema Blend<\/strong><\/a> posted their choices for the <em><strong>Ten Movie Heroes Who Make Us Proud to be Americans<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 Making the list were: <strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Scarlett <\/strong>(<em>Gone with the Wind<\/em>)<strong> O&#8217;Hara<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>President James <\/strong><em>(Air Force One)<\/em><strong> Marshall<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Captain John H. <\/strong><em>(Saving Private Ryan) <\/em><strong>Miller<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>John<\/strong><em> (Die Hard series)<\/em><strong> McClane<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Atticus <\/strong><em>(To Kill a Mockingbird)<\/em><strong> Finch<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jason <\/strong><em>(The Bourne trilogy)<\/em><strong> Bourne<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Will <\/strong><em>(High Noon)<\/em><strong> Kane<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sarah <\/strong><em>(Terminator series) <\/em><strong>Connor<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bryan <\/strong><em>(Taken)<\/em><strong> Mills<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rocky <\/strong><em>(Rocky series) <\/em><strong>Balboa<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some of what they had to say about<strong> Rocky&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"intelliTxt\">Everyone loves an underdog, and that\u2019s the reason why <strong>Sylvester Stallone\u2019s Rocky Balboa<\/strong> is such a great character<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"intelliTxt\"> <strong>Balboa<\/strong> is a hero because of the inspiration he provides,<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span id=\"intelliTxt\"><strong>Rocky Balboa<\/strong> IS the <strong>American<\/strong> spirit. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/new\/Ten-Movie-Heroes-Who-Make-Us-Proud-To-Be-Americans-19394.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here to read the full piece.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Independence Day, Cinema Blend posted their choices for the Ten Movie Heroes Who Make Us Proud to be Americans.\u00a0 Making the list were: Scarlett (Gone with the Wind) O&#8217;Hara President James (Air Force One) Marshall Captain John H. (Saving Private Ryan) Miller John (Die Hard series) McClane Atticus (To Kill a Mockingbird) [&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":[85,28,9,13,43,55,57,79,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-85","category-honors","category-rocky","category-rocky-2","category-rocky-3","category-rocky-4","category-rocky-5","category-rocky-6","category-rocky-balboa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-Hb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677","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=2677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2678,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2677\/revisions\/2678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}