{"id":3030,"date":"2024-04-29T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T05:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2024-05-09T09:53:55","modified_gmt":"2024-05-09T09:53:55","slug":"happy-birthday-akira-takarada-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/04\/happy-birthday-akira-takarada-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumnus Akira Takarada!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">April 29, 1934 \u2013 March 14, 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Japanese film actor Akira Takarada is best known for his many roles in the Godzilla film series, including GODZILLA (1954), MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA (1964), INVASION OF THE ASTRO-MONSTER (1965), GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER (1966), KING KONG ESCAPES (1967), GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA (1992) and GODZILLA: FINAL WARS (2004)!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1576\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Akira-Takarada_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Akira Takarada \u2022 April 29, 1934 \u2013 March 14, 2022\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Akira-Takarada_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Akira-Takarada_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Akira-Takarada_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Akira-Takarada_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Akira-Takarada_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 29, 1934 \u2013 March 14, 2022 Japanese film actor Akira Takarada is best known for his many roles in the Godzilla film series, including GODZILLA (1954), MOTHRA VS. GODZILLA (1964), INVASION OF THE ASTRO-MONSTER (1965), GODZILLA VS. THE SEA MONSTER (1966), KING KONG ESCAPES (1967), GODZILLA VS. MOTHRA (1992) and GODZILLA: FINAL WARS (2004)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1576,"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":[89,237,7,5,27,32,692,36,35,38],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-actor","tag-akiratakarada","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-godzilla","tag-happybirthday","tag-inmemoriam","tag-kaiju","tag-mothra","tag-tokusatsu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Akira-Takarada_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","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=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3031,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions\/3031"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}