{"id":398,"date":"2022-09-24T12:56:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T12:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=398"},"modified":"2022-09-24T12:56:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T12:56:37","slug":"happy-100th-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-bert-i-gordon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/09\/happy-100th-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-bert-i-gordon\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 100th Birthday to CDF alumnus Bert I. Gordon!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Born September 24, 1922 in Kenosha, Wisconsin<\/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 loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-399\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bert-I-Gordon_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Bert I. Gordon photo collage\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bert-I-Gordon_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bert-I-Gordon_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bert-I-Gordon_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bert-I-Gordon_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bert-I-Gordon_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born September 24, 1922 in Kenosha, Wisconsin 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":399,"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":[128,15,130,5,6,16,129],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-bertigordon","tag-cdfalum","tag-colossalbeast","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-movies","tag-puppetpeople"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Bert-I-Gordon_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","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=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}