{"id":1624,"date":"2023-05-07T09:26:07","date_gmt":"2023-05-07T09:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=1624"},"modified":"2023-05-07T09:26:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-07T09:26:07","slug":"happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-ishiro-honda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/05\/happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-ishiro-honda\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Ishiro Honda!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">May 7, 1911 \u2013 February 28, 1993<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Toho&#8217;s most renowned director of science fiction, Ishiro Honda directed many CDF fan favorites including an amazing 11 Godzilla movies, such as the original GODZILLA (1954), GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964), INVASION OF THE ASTRO-MONSTER (1965), DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (1968), and TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA (1974); as well as the classics MATANGO (1963), DOGORA (1964), FRANKENSTEIN CONQUERS THE WORLD (1965), THE WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS (1966), and SPACE AMOEBA (1970)!<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Mr. Honda, along with film producer Tomoyuki Tanaka and special-effects wizard Eiji Tsuburaya, is most famous as the creator of Godzilla!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1625\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ishiro-Honda_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Ishiro Honda \u2022 May 7, 1911 \u2013 February 28, 1993\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ishiro-Honda_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ishiro-Honda_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ishiro-Honda_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ishiro-Honda_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ishiro-Honda_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 7, 1911 \u2013 February 28, 1993 Toho&#8217;s most renowned director of science fiction, Ishiro Honda directed many CDF fan favorites including an amazing 11 Godzilla movies, such as the original GODZILLA (1954), GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964), INVASION OF THE ASTRO-MONSTER (1965), DESTROY ALL MONSTERS (1968), and TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA (1974); as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[15,7,5,6,27,32,494,36,38],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-godzilla","tag-happybirthday","tag-ishirohonda","tag-kaiju","tag-tokusatsu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Ishiro-Honda_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}