{"id":42949,"date":"2026-10-29T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42949"},"modified":"2026-09-28T13:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:37:15","slug":"rocky-balboa-by-randy-martin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42949","title":{"rendered":"Rocky Balboa by Randy Martin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z102926rocky_randymartin.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"705\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Randy Martin and his his wife, Laura were one of the first people that I knew who had an art themed collection.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicartfans.com\/gallerydetail.asp?gcat=2069\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Theirs is Edward Scissorhands<\/a>.\u00a0 Anyway, I was at one of the first (maybe even the first) conventions when I started getting Sylvester Stallone character sketches.\u00a0 Randy (who is a collector, not a professional artist) said he had an idea for a Stallone sketch.\u00a0 I said (in my best Rocky III voice), &#8220;Go for it!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The result is a, pardon the expression, knockout!\u00a0 It still brings a smile to my face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Randy Martin and his his wife, Laura were one of the first people that I knew who had an art<\/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":[58,56,63,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-humor","category-movies"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42949","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=42949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42950,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42949\/revisions\/42950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}