{"id":2141,"date":"2023-08-31T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T07:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=2141"},"modified":"2023-09-07T09:26:16","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T09:26:16","slug":"happy-birthday-katsumi-tezuka-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/08\/happy-birthday-katsumi-tezuka-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Katsumi Tezuka!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Born: August 31, 1912<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Japanese film actor Katsumi Tezuka is best known to CDF fans for portraying kaiju in several Toho science fiction and horror films directed by Ishiro Honda, including Anguirus in GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN (1955), Varan in VARAN (1958), Godzilla* in GODZILLA (1954), KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962), MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA (1964), and GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2142 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Katsumi-Tezuka_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Katsumi Tezuka photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Katsumi-Tezuka_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Katsumi-Tezuka_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Katsumi-Tezuka_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Katsumi-Tezuka_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Katsumi-Tezuka_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born: August 31, 1912 Japanese film actor Katsumi Tezuka is best known to CDF fans for portraying kaiju in several Toho science fiction and horror films directed by Ishiro Honda, including Anguirus in GODZILLA RAIDS AGAIN (1955), Varan in VARAN (1958), Godzilla* in GODZILLA (1954), KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962), MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA (1964), and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2142,"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":[15,7,5,6,91,27,32,34,35,95,55],"class_list":["post-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-ghidorah","tag-godzilla","tag-happybirthday","tag-kingkong","tag-mothra","tag-toho","tag-tohostudios"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Katsumi-Tezuka_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","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=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions\/2143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}