{"id":416,"date":"2007-10-14T10:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-14T14:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=416"},"modified":"2007-10-14T10:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-14T14:07:00","slug":"ew-the-things-they-carried","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/14\/ew-the-things-they-carried\/","title":{"rendered":"EW: The Things They Carried"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2007\/Oct\/101907ew_gloves.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stallonezone.com\/imgs\/news\/2007\/Oct\/101907ew_gloves.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">October 19, 2007<\/span> issue of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Entertainment Weekly<\/span> has a piece by <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tom Schierlitz<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Josh Rottenberg<\/span> entitled <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;The Things They Carried&#8221;<\/span>.  It looks at some of the great props from motion pictures.  The article leads with a two page spread of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sly&#8217;s boxing gloves<\/span> from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/span>.  Here&#8217;s what they have to say:<\/span>  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;font-family:arial;\" ><\/p>\n<p>Rocky<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:arial;\">Boxing Gloves<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:arial;\">The sleeper hit of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1976 <\/span>and a surprise <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Best Picture winner<\/span>, the underdog-palooka fable kick-started the career of writer-director-star <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sylvester Stallone<\/span>, launched a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">six-film franchise<\/span>, and roused untold millions of couch potatoes with dreams of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Eye of the Tiger&#8221;<\/span> glory.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stallone<\/span> donated the gloves from <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Rocky II&#8221;<\/span> to the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Smithsonian<\/span>, but he wore these gloves in the first <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8220;Rocky&#8221;<\/span>, where he duked it out for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">15 rounds<\/span> with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Apollo Creed<\/span>.  This pair clearly has a strong sentimental appeal for him &#8211; it has remained in his private collection for more than <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">30 years<\/span>.<br \/>&#8212;&#8211;<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">&#8211; Craig<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The October 19, 2007 issue of Entertainment Weekly has a piece by Tom Schierlitz and Josh Rottenberg entitled &#8220;The Things They Carried&#8221;. It looks at some of the great props from motion pictures. The article leads with a two page spread of Sly&#8217;s boxing gloves from &#8220;Rocky&#8221;. Here&#8217;s what they have to say: Rocky Boxing [&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":[21,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21","category-rocky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-6I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416","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=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}