{"id":10837,"date":"2011-10-18T04:02:42","date_gmt":"2011-10-17T19:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=10837"},"modified":"2011-10-18T04:02:42","modified_gmt":"2011-10-17T19:02:42","slug":"two-countries-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=10837","title":{"rendered":"Two Countries = ONE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ever since we started Go-Naminori, i&#8217;ve met the coolest people in the world.  some old friends, some new friends, and some strangers.  it&#8217;s pretty cool when people walk up to you and say &#8220;hey, your the go-naminori guy, or hey, your the you tube guy.&#8221;  it&#8217;s also kind of funny because some of these people i&#8217;ve never met before in my life know more than me than i do.  i&#8217;ve always wanted to build a bridge between Hawaii and Japan and i think it&#8217;s happening.  two countries i love becoming ONE.  if your from hawaii, you will love japan.  and if your from japan, you will love hawaii.  and until you find that out, i will help you understand why.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/takeda.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/takeda.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10838\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nas i was walking up to my airplane at narita airport, this guy approached me and asked to take a photo.  takeda-san is a hard core Go-Naminori\/YouTube fan.  he was kind, smiling, and so excited to go to hawaii.<br \/>\nTakeda-san,<br \/>\nThank you for checking out my blog and youtube vids.<br \/>\nIt was really nice meeting you at the airport.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m sorry we couldn&#8217;t talk more.<br \/>\nI hope you had a great time in Hawaii.<br \/>\nToo bad we couldn&#8217;t meet in the water.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m glad you got to meet Local Motion Maki-san.<br \/>\nMaybe next time we can all surf together and I can put you on the youtube too.<br \/>\nThanks for the photo as it will help me remember the nice guy i met in japan.<br \/>\nKeep on Surfing and always SURF YOUR DREAM!!!!<br \/>\nGo-Naminori Forever!<br \/>\nAloha,<br \/>\nKirby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ever since we started Go-Naminori, i&#8217;ve met the coolest people in the world. some old friends, some new friends, and some strangers. it&#8217;s pretty cool when people walk up to you and say &#8220;hey, your the go-naminori guy, or hey, your the you tube guy.&#8221; it&#8217;s also kind of funny because some of these people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837","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=10837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}