{"id":2229,"date":"2023-09-24T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2023-09-24T09:16:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T09:16:06","slug":"happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-bert-i-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/09\/happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-bert-i-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Bert I. Gordon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">September 24, 1922<\/span><span class=\"s2\"> \u2013 <\/span><span class=\"s1\">March 8, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Nicknamed \u201cMr. B.I.G.\u201d \u2013 Bert Ira Gordon is an American filmmaker and visual effects artist best remembered for writing and directing science fiction and horror B-movies such as King Dinosaur (1955), Village of the Giants (1965), Empire of the Ants (1977) as well as the CDF classics THE AMAZING COLOSSAL MAN (1957), EARTH VS. THE SPIDER (1958), WAR OF THE COLOSSAL BEAST (1958), and ATTACK OF THE PUPPET PEOPLE (1958)!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2230\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bert-I-Gordon_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Bert I. Gordon photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bert-I-Gordon_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bert-I-Gordon_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bert-I-Gordon_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bert-I-Gordon_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bert-I-Gordon_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 24, 1922 \u2013 March 8, 2023 Nicknamed \u201cMr. B.I.G.\u201d \u2013 Bert Ira Gordon is an American filmmaker and visual effects artist best remembered for writing and directing science fiction and horror B-movies such as King Dinosaur (1955), Village of the Giants (1965), Empire of the Ants (1977) as well as the CDF classics THE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2230,"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":[553,128,601,15,130,5,162,16,129,353],"class_list":["post-2229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-attackofthepuppetpeople","tag-bertigordon","tag-bmovies","tag-cdfalum","tag-colossalbeast","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-filmmaker","tag-movies","tag-puppetpeople","tag-warofthecolossalbeast"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bert-I-Gordon_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229","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=2229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2231,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2229\/revisions\/2231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}