{"id":19583,"date":"2017-12-28T05:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=19583"},"modified":"2021-03-23T15:55:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T19:55:23","slug":"how-gonna-fly-now-made-it-into-rocky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=19583","title":{"rendered":"How &#8220;Gonna Fly Now&#8221; Made It Into &#8220;Rocky&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2017\/z122817storyofthe_rockytheme.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rocky&#8217;s theme,<em> Gonna Fly Now<\/em> by Bill Conti, Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins is arguably one of the greatest movie songs of all-time.\u00a0 Over 40 years later,\u00a0<em>Gonna Fly Now<\/em> is still instantly recognizable by folks of all ages, is used at sporting events of all kinds and remains a popular (and inspirational) workout song.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Surprisingly, another song was set to be Rocky&#8217;s Theme!\u00a0 (One of the lyrics: &#8220;He has a Sunday punch that will knock you in to Monday!&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check out the short video below to learn how <em>Gonna Fly Now<\/em> made into into <em>Rocky<\/em> and film\/music history.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MpJTQFHJScw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rocky&#8217;s theme, Gonna Fly Now by Bill Conti, Carol Connors and Ayn Robbins is arguably one of the greatest movie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[54,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19583"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27111,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19583\/revisions\/27111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}