{"id":3519,"date":"2024-08-26T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2024-12-20T14:11:44","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T14:11:44","slug":"happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumna-akiko-wakabayashi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/08\/happy-birthday-to-cdf-alumna-akiko-wakabayashi\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday to CDF alumna Akiko Wakabayashi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Born: August 26th, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Akiko Wakabayashi is a retired Japanese actress who enjoyed a dynamic career on the silver screen between 1958\u20131971. Although she may be best known internationally for her role as Bond girl Aki in the 1967 James Bond movie You Only Live Twice; CDF enthusiasts will certainly recall her roles in the Toho kaiju classics KING KONG VS. GODZILLA (1962), DOGORA, THE SPACE MONSTER (1964), and GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964)!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3520\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Akiko-Wakabayashi_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Happy Birthday to CDF alumna Akiko Wakabayashi!\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Akiko-Wakabayashi_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Akiko-Wakabayashi_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Akiko-Wakabayashi_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Akiko-Wakabayashi_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Akiko-Wakabayashi_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born: August 26th, 1941 in Tokyo, Japan Akiko Wakabayashi is a retired Japanese actress who enjoyed a dynamic career on the silver screen between 1958\u20131971. Although she may be best known internationally for her role as Bond girl Aki in the 1967 James Bond movie You Only Live Twice; CDF enthusiasts will certainly recall her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3520,"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":[636,739,15,7,5,91,27,32,222,34,484,55,738],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-akikowakabayashi","tag-bondgirl","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-ghidorah","tag-godzilla","tag-happybirthday","tag-kingghidorah","tag-kingkong","tag-kingkongvsgodzilla","tag-tohostudios","tag-youonlylivetwice"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/Akiko-Wakabayashi_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","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=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3521,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions\/3521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}