{"id":3381,"date":"2011-02-13T09:35:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-13T13:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=3381"},"modified":"2011-02-13T09:35:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-13T13:35:39","slug":"ranking-the-rocky-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/13\/ranking-the-rocky-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Ranking the &#8220;Rocky&#8221; Movies"},"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\/2011\/feb\/021311rocky_balboa.png?resize=475%2C319\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"319\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On <strong>February 9, 2011<\/strong>, <strong>ChicagoNow.com<\/strong> posted <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagonow.com\/blogs\/stump-the-tromp\/2011\/02\/ranking-the-rocky-movies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ranking the Rocky Movies<\/a><\/em><\/strong> by <strong>Kyle Trompeter<\/strong>.\u00a0 While I don&#8217;t agree with\u00a0<strong>Kyle&#8217;s rankings<\/strong>, he does make a good case for each choice&#8230; and there is a surprise or two in his list.<\/p>\n<p>And for the record, here is how I rank them:<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0 <strong><em>Rocky<\/em><\/strong> and <strong><em>Rocky Balboa<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 {Perfect bookends to the series]<br \/>\n2.\u00a0 <strong><em>Rocky III<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>3.\u00a0 <strong><em>Rocky II<\/em><\/strong> [Depending on my mood sometimes I flip positions on II and IV]<br \/>\n4.\u00a0 <strong><em>Rocky IV<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>5.\u00a0 <strong><em>Rocky V<\/em><\/strong> [While many fans really dislike <strong><em>Rocky V<\/em><\/strong>, I am thankful that because of it we got <strong><em>Rocky Balboa<\/em><\/strong>]<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211; Craig<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 9, 2011, ChicagoNow.com posted Ranking the Rocky Movies by Kyle Trompeter.\u00a0 While I don&#8217;t agree with\u00a0Kyle&#8217;s rankings, he does make a good case for each choice&#8230; and there is a surprise or two in his list. And for the record, here is how I rank them: 1.\u00a0 Rocky and Rocky Balboa.\u00a0 {Perfect bookends [&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":[93,9,13,43,55,57,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-93","category-rocky","category-rocky-2","category-rocky-3","category-rocky-4","category-rocky-5","category-rocky-balboa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-Sx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381","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=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3382,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3381\/revisions\/3382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}