{"id":1634,"date":"2009-01-06T07:37:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T20:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=1634"},"modified":"2010-01-01T06:05:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T19:05:14","slug":"under-the-monsters-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/06\/under-the-monsters-skin\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Monster&#8217;s Skin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Backbrain doesn&#8217;t usually do birthdays, but there was a highly significant one that occurred in 1 January and we missed it! 1 January 2009 was the 80th birthday of <strong>Haruo Nakajima<\/strong>. Don&#8217;t know who he is? Here&#8217;s a clue?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/haruonakajima.jpg\" alt=\"Naruo Nakajima in Mothra vs Godzilla\" width=\"400\" height=\"603\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My co-editor for the <em>Daikaiju! <\/em>books, <strong>Robin Pen<\/strong>, has written <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetvideo.com.au\/blog\/2009\/01\/man-in-a-cool-suit.html\" target=\"_blank\">a tribute on the Planet blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/augustragone.blogspot.com\/2009\/01\/happy-birthday-haruo-nakajima-they.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> is another that takes a different tack by kaiju expert <strong>August Ragone<\/strong> (which is where the above picture comes from).<\/p>\n<p>Happy birthday, Haruo-san &#8212; albeit in retrospect. You are the Man!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Backbrain doesn&#8217;t usually do birthdays, but there was a highly significant one that occurred in 1 January and we missed it! 1 January 2009 was the 80th birthday of Haruo Nakajima. Don&#8217;t know who he is? Here&#8217;s a clue? &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/01\/06\/under-the-monsters-skin\/\">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":[4,44,11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634"}],"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=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5969,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions\/5969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}