{"id":1077,"date":"2008-11-10T15:52:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T06:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2008\/11\/10\/what-if\/"},"modified":"2008-11-10T15:52:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T06:52:56","slug":"what-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=1077","title":{"rendered":"What if…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\ni went to japan in 1992 to persue a career as a salary man. i had my college degree, resume, and drive to make it. till this day, some people think i was joking but i wasn’t. i went to liberty house(now macy’s) and spent a thousand dollars on 2 suits a week before i left to japan. i sold everything i owned in hawaii including my car, tv, and even gave my prized pet fish to my friend. as for those suits, i tried it on once at my house before i left and that was the last time i ever took it off the hanger. now that i think back, what would have ever happened if i took the road of a salaryman in japan? i know i wouldn’t be as happy as i am now but i’m a little curious. would i be all white? would i be an alcoholic? would i be successful? would i be just a weekend surfer? or would i have quit my job and went back to surfing? yeah, probably that. but at least i tried. now that i think about it, i took the chance and found the right road. through surfing, i got to see the world that i would have never been able to see. it made me a lot smarter, and much more appreciative of what i have. i don’t need a rolex watch, i don’t need a mercedes, and i don’t need a million dollar house. i’m happy with what i have, and the friends i made around this world. i wouldn’t trade it for anything. but from time to time, i always sit down and wonder, “what if”….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

i went to japan in 1992 to persue a career as a salary man. i had my college degree, resume, and drive to make it. till this day, some people think i was joking but i wasn’t. i went to liberty house(now macy’s) and spent a thousand dollars on 2 suits a week before i […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-go-naminori"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}