{"id":42416,"date":"2026-09-04T07:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T11:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42416"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:15:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:15:59","slug":"sly-stallone-as-rocky-balboa-by-rich-conley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42416","title":{"rendered":"Sly Stallone as Rocky Balboa by Rich Conley!\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z090426rockybalboa_rich_conley.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"556\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sly Stallone as Rocky Balboa by Rich Conley!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what Rich had to say about his drawing&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>My latest sketch of Rocky. I feel like this is him at his lowest point. He\u2019s nearly broken by life, and when he says , \u2018it wasn\u2019t supposed to be this hard \u201c I think we\u2019ve all felt that way at some point in our lives. Amazing scene from Rocky Balboa. I wanted to keep this sketch loose and raw like the moment it was capturing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I have to say about his drawing&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nailed it!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;Are you angry because Adrian left you?&#8221; <\/em><strong>&#8211; Paulie<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>&#8220;She didn&#8217;t leave, she died.&#8221;<\/em><strong> &#8211; Rocky<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sly Stallone as Rocky Balboa by Rich Conley! Here&#8217;s what Rich had to say about his drawing&#8230; My latest sketch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,17,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-celebs","category-movies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42416","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=42416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42417,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42416\/revisions\/42417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}