{"id":491,"date":"2008-01-20T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T14:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/?p=491"},"modified":"2008-01-20T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T14:32:00","slug":"rambos-essence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/2008\/01\/20\/rambos-essence\/","title":{"rendered":"Rambo&#8217;s Essence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><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\/2008\/Jan\/012008rambo.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><span style=\"font-family: arial;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Michael Price<\/span> for the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">January 21, 2008<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Fort Worth Business Press<\/span> says that &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">\u2018Rambo<\/span>\u2019 restores <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stallone\u2019s signature character<\/span> to a near-original essence.&#8221;  Here are a few excerpts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">*  \u201cThe thing you gotta remember about <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sly<\/span>,\u201d a lifelong pal and fellow actor named <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Joe Spinell<\/span> (1936\u20131989) said of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stallone<\/span> during the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1980s<\/span>, \u201cis that he ain\u2019t who he plays. He\u2019s an artist of calculating intelligence and good humor, and a lot of the violence that the audiences take at face-value in these <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Rambo<\/span> pictures \u2014 that\u2019s <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sly\u2019s<\/span> satirical response to the excessive tastes of the marketplace.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">*  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Stallone<\/span> invests the role with a realistic acceptance of the aging process, and with traces reminiscent of <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Humphrey Bogart<\/span> in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1951\u2019s The African Queen<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Clint Eastwood<\/span> in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">1992\u2019s Unforgiven<\/span>&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial;\">You can read the full article <\/span><a style=\"font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fwbusinesspress.com\/display.php?id=6936\">HERE<\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial; font-weight: bold;\">. &#8211; Craig<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Price for the January 21, 2008 Fort Worth Business Press says that &#8220;\u2018Rambo\u2019 restores Stallone\u2019s signature character to a near-original essence.&#8221; Here are a few excerpts: * \u201cThe thing you gotta remember about Sly,\u201d a lifelong pal and fellow actor named Joe Spinell (1936\u20131989) said of Stallone during the 1980s, \u201cis that he ain\u2019t [&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":[5,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5","category-john-rambo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3r2Pe-7V","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stallonezone.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}