{"id":649,"date":"2007-04-08T00:22:58","date_gmt":"2007-04-08T05:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/womantalk.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/08\/no-little-marie-its-not-alright\/"},"modified":"2007-04-08T00:22:58","modified_gmt":"2007-04-08T05:22:58","slug":"no-little-marie-its-not-alright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"No, little Marie, it&#039;s not alright!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished watching <strong>Rocky Balboa<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/imdb.com\/title\/tt0479143\/\" target=\"_blank\">7.4\/10 imdb<\/a>) and had to wipe a tear from my eye. I was trying to save it to watch with Bella &#8211; but she wasn&#8217;t interested.<\/p>\n<p>I remember putting on <strong>Rocky I<\/strong> to get pysched for intense long runs along the Potomac when I was in high school. I was working towards my black belt in Tae Kwon Do. Christina Dias and I would do hundreds of sit-ups and jumping jacks and then run our hearts out &#8211; gasping, &#8220;WIMP&#8221; to each other if we started to slow down. I hear she&#8217;s a lawyer in NYC now &#8211; I bet she&#8217;s still bulldog tenacious.<\/p>\n<p>I have to say that when the preview for <strong>Rocky Balboa<\/strong> came on in the theater &#8211; I gagged on my Coke, I was laughing that incredulously.\u00c2\u00a0 But, really, it wasn&#8217;t that bad. In fact, I give it a <strong>B<\/strong> for solid nostalgic entertainment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished watching Rocky Balboa (7.4\/10 imdb) and had to wipe a tear from my eye. I was trying to save it to watch with Bella &#8211; but she wasn&#8217;t interested. I remember putting on Rocky I to get pysched &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/?p=649\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.womantalk.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}