{"id":277,"date":"2025-09-02T22:11:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/?p=277"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:11:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T16:41:01","slug":"he-rock-from-buff-to-barely-recognizable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"he Rock: From Buff to Barely Recognizable"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson is blowing up X, and it\u2019s all about his jaw-dropping transformation for his new flick, <em>The Smashing Machine<\/em>. Dude dropped like 60 pounds to play MMA legend Mark Kerr, and folks are shook. One post from the Venice Film Festival shows him tearing up after a 15-minute standing ovation \u2013 Oscar whispers are already starting! But not everyone\u2019s a fan of the new look. A viral side-by-side pic with over 130k views asks, \u201cWhat happened to The Rock?\u201d Some say he\u2019s healthier off the juice, others joke he\u2019s more pebble than rock now. At 53, maybe he\u2019s just playing the long game for his health. Check out this emotional festival moment:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dwayne \u201cThe Rock\u201d Johnson is blowing up X, and it\u2019s all about his jaw-dropping transformation for his new flick, The Smashing Machine. Dude dropped like 60 pounds to play MMA legend Mark Kerr, and folks are shook. One post from the Venice Film Festival shows him tearing up after a 15-minute standing ovation \u2013 Oscar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatisnewis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}