{"id":22540,"date":"2019-08-31T17:59:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T21:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=22540"},"modified":"2021-05-22T09:49:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-22T13:49:54","slug":"rip-franco-columbu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=22540","title":{"rendered":"RIP &#8211; Franco Columbu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2019\/z083119fracocolumbu_rip.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Franco Columbu died yesterday of an unspecified illness.\u00a0 He was 78.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Columbu was a boxer, weightlifter, bodybuilding champion, actor and chiropractor.\u00a0 Franco met Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1960s and they became lifelong friends, with Columbu serving as Arnold&#8217;s best man when he married Maria Shriver in 1986.\u00a0 Columbu is a two-time Mr. Olympia Bodybuilding Champion.\u00a0 He also appeared in<em> Stay Hungry, Pumping Iron, The Terminator, Conan the Barbarian, The Running Man, Big Top Pee-wee<\/em>, as well as other movies and television shows.\u00a0 In addition, Franco trained many celebrities (including helping Sly Stallone get in shape for Rambo and other films).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Our thoughts and prayers go out to Franco Columbu&#8217;s family, friends and fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Franco Columbu died yesterday of an unspecified illness.\u00a0 He was 78. Columbu was a boxer, weightlifter, bodybuilding champion, actor and<\/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":[17,54,57,49,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-movies","category-rip","category-sports","category-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22540","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=22540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22541,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22540\/revisions\/22541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}