{"id":695,"date":"2022-11-17T09:35:32","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T09:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2022-11-17T09:35:32","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T09:35:32","slug":"happy-90th-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-hiroshi-sekita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/11\/happy-90th-birthday-to-cdf-alumnus-hiroshi-sekita\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 90th Birthday to CDF alumnus Hiroshi Sekita!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Born: November 17, 1932 in Tokyo, Japan<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Hiroshi Sekita is a Japanese actor best known for his kaiju roles in such CDF classics as Sanda in WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS, Ebirah in EBIRAH, HORROR OF THE DEEP, Gorosaurus in both KING KONG ESCAPES and DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, as well as Mechani-Kong and Anguirus in both films, respectively, and Godzilla in all of the land scenes in SON OF GODZILLA!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-696\" src=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Hiroshi-Sekita_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg\" alt=\"Hiroshi Sekita photo collage\" width=\"100%\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Hiroshi-Sekita_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Hiroshi-Sekita_Instagram_1080x1080-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Hiroshi-Sekita_Instagram_1080x1080-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Hiroshi-Sekita_Instagram_1080x1080-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Hiroshi-Sekita_Instagram_1080x1080-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born: November 17, 1932 in Tokyo, Japan Hiroshi Sekita is a Japanese actor best known for his kaiju roles in such CDF classics as Sanda in WAR OF THE GARGANTUAS, Ebirah in EBIRAH, HORROR OF THE DEEP, Gorosaurus in both KING KONG ESCAPES and DESTROY ALL MONSTERS, as well as Mechani-Kong and Anguirus in both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":696,"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":[15,7,5,6,254,27,253,32,36,34,252,55,255],"class_list":["post-695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creaturefeature","tag-cdfalum","tag-cdfroundup","tag-creaturedoublefeature","tag-creaturefeature","tag-ebirah","tag-godzilla","tag-gorosaurus","tag-happybirthday","tag-kaiju","tag-kingkong","tag-mechanikong","tag-tohostudios","tag-warofthegargantuas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Hiroshi-Sekita_Instagram_1080x1080.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695","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=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":697,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions\/697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdfroundup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}