{"id":3636,"date":"2017-06-07T06:51:22","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T06:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/?p=3636"},"modified":"2021-02-17T15:14:50","modified_gmt":"2021-02-17T15:14:50","slug":"between-the-rock-and-a-hard-place-by-jake-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/between-the-rock-and-a-hard-place-by-jake-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rock and a hard place"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-excerpt\">\n    <p>It takes a certain level of faith to get through the pain of seeing your sporting dreams slip from your grasp, only to reinvent yourself as one of the greatest professional wrestlers in history. To then leave the ring and conquer Hollywood \u2013 well, it seems only Dwayne Johnson could manage that with such endearing panache and effortless cool.<\/p>\n<p>But if it hadn\u2019t been for Johnson\u2019s incredible strength of spirit, things could have turned out very different for The Rock \u2013 the People\u2019s Champion who became the film industry\u2019s undisputed leading man.<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s the biggest male star in Hollywood right now? Brad Pitt; George Clooney; Johnny Depp? Think again. The answer to that question must surely be Dwayne Johnson, and that\u2019s not just because he\u2019s six foot five and has arms like tree trunks. No, the man who made his name as one of the most iconic WWE wrestlers of all time is now worth a staggering $64m a year \u2013 and that means he ranks higher than any of those silver screen stalwarts, no matter...<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <h2 style=\"text-align: center\">Continue Reading<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Subscribe to one of our subscription packages<br \/>\nto get digital access to our articles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Unlimited digital access.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"headerbutton1\" href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/subscriptions\/\">Start a Subscription Now<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Already a subscriber? <a href=\"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/login-member\/\">Login<\/a><\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It takes a certain level of faith to get through the pain of seeing your sporting dreams slip from your grasp, only to reinvent yourself as one of the greatest professional wrestlers in history. To then leave the ring and conquer Hollywood \u2013 well, it seems only Dwayne Johnson could manage that with such endearing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,23],"tags":[184,731,732,733,734,735,736,737],"class_list":["post-3636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-content","category-portfolio","tag-hollywood","tag-dwayne-johnson","tag-george-clooney","tag-johnny-depp","tag-rocky-johnson","tag-the-rock","tag-tinseltowm","tag-wwf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3636"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7623,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3636\/revisions\/7623"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runyourownwebsite.uk\/sorteddev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}