{"id":2336,"date":"2023-10-29T06:00:44","date_gmt":"2023-10-29T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2023-11-04T07:26:20","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T07:26:20","slug":"happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumna-tomoko-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/10\/happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumna-tomoko-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumna Tomoko Ai!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Born: October 29, 1954 in Kanagawa, Japan<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Japanese actress Tomoko Ai has enjoyed roles in <em>Ultraman Leo<\/em> (1974), <em>Bakuhatsu! Boso zoku<\/em> (1975), as well as lending her voice to the animated TV series <em>The Mysterious Cities of Gold<\/em> (1982-1983); <span class=\"s1\">but is best remembered for her role as Katsura Mafune in Toho\u2019s <\/span>1975 kaiju classic and CDF fan favorite \u2013 TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-586\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tomoko-Ai_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Tomoko Ai photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tomoko-Ai_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tomoko-Ai_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tomoko-Ai_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tomoko-Ai_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tomoko-Ai_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born: October 29, 1954 in Kanagawa, Japan Japanese actress Tomoko Ai has enjoyed roles in Ultraman Leo (1974), Bakuhatsu! Boso zoku (1975), as well as lending her voice to the animated TV series The Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982-1983); but is best remembered for her role as Katsura Mafune in Toho\u2019s 1975 kaiju classic and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":586,"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":[15,7,5,6,201,27,32,200,199,55,198],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-cyborg","tag-godzilla","tag-happybirthday","tag-mechagodzilla","tag-titanosaurus","tag-tohostudios","tag-tomokoai"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Tomoko-Ai_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","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=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2337,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}