{"id":13436,"date":"2013-12-20T15:20:33","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T04:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=13436"},"modified":"2013-12-20T15:27:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T04:27:07","slug":"godzilla-king-of-the-sexagenarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/20\/godzilla-king-of-the-sexagenarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Godzilla, King of the Sexagenarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, Godzilla &#8212; the iconic progenitor of the entire <em>daikaiju eiga<\/em> subgenre, if not giant monster films as a whole &#8212; not only gets a new American re-boot, but officially turns 60 &#8212; his first film being <em>Gojira<\/em> from 1954 (dir. Ishiro Honda).<\/p>\n<p>It seems, though, that Toho &#8212; the Japanese film studio that first introduced Godzilla to the world and kept him going for <a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/movielists\/giant-monster-film-list\/#godzillaoriginal\" target=\"_blank\">a total of 28 films<\/a> &#8212; has decided to embrace the US re-boot and to throw themselves into the occasion via a new website that kaiju newshound Avery Guerra has stumbled upon.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment it&#8217;s basically a one-page affair, but it has some cool features:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Godzilla-60th.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13438\" alt=\"Godzilla-60th\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Godzilla-60th-1024x824.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Godzilla-60th-1024x824.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Godzilla-60th-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/Godzilla-60th.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll see when you go there, you can make Godzilla trampled the cityscape but also release another surprise if you can work out which key to hit. I got it first go, so it&#8217;s not hard to guess!<\/p>\n<p>Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/godzilla.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/godzilla.jp\/<\/a> and check it out! I look forward to whatever surprises await as we plunge into 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, Godzilla &#8212; the iconic progenitor of the entire daikaiju eiga subgenre, if not giant monster films as a whole &#8212; not only gets a new American re-boot, but officially turns 60 &#8212; his first film being Gojira from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/20\/godzilla-king-of-the-sexagenarians\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,44,11,54,3],"tags":[1419,426,1286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13440,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436\/revisions\/13440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}