{"id":1526,"date":"2008-12-02T22:06:19","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T11:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2008-12-02T22:06:19","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T11:06:19","slug":"the-rocks-thanksgiving-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/02\/the-rocks-thanksgiving-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rock&#8217;s Thanksgiving Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving Day, which was celebrated on November 27 in the US, was also a special day for legendary Chicago no-budget filmmaker, David &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Nelson. It was, in fact, his 52nd birthday.<\/p>\n<p>On that day, Nelson appeared on Chicago&#8217;s WGNTV &#8212; who seem to have adopted him &#8212; in order to present his latest turkey&#8230; um, film: <em>The Turkey Monster<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AoggvrirpRA\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AoggvrirpRA\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Happy [belated] birthday, David, from the Undead Backbrain!<\/p>\n<p>Nelson followed this up with a special all-in competition match against none other than legendary Deadite slayer, Bruce &#8220;Evil Dead&#8221; Campbell &#8212; an event honoured by &#8220;The Rock&#8221;&#8216;s friends from Chicago All-Star Wrestling (who produced this poster).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dave_the_rock_nelson_vs_bruce_campbell-760x571.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1527\" title=\"dave_the_rock_nelson_vs_bruce_campbell-760x571\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dave_the_rock_nelson_vs_bruce_campbell-760x571.jpg\" alt=\"\\&quot;The Rock\\&quot; vs Bruce Campbell\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dave_the_rock_nelson_vs_bruce_campbell-760x571.jpg 760w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/dave_the_rock_nelson_vs_bruce_campbell-760x571-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kwBlZWroXFM\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kwBlZWroXFM\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And a special &#8220;Hi!&#8221; from Kaiju Search-Robot Avery, who directed me to all this stuff!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving Day, which was celebrated on November 27 in the US, was also a special day for legendary Chicago no-budget filmmaker, David &#8220;The Rock&#8221; Nelson. It was, in fact, his 52nd birthday. On that day, Nelson appeared on Chicago&#8217;s WGNTV &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/12\/02\/the-rocks-thanksgiving-turkey\/\">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":[],"categories":[4,75,59,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}