{"id":112393,"date":"2020-07-11T05:44:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T20:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=112393"},"modified":"2020-07-11T05:44:01","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T20:44:01","slug":"choosing-momotaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=112393","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Momotaro\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112395\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_5970.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>sat on the beach in the morning thinking &#8220;um, waves too small to shortboard, tide too low to foil, what should i do? \u00a0then i remembered i have my custom 5&#8217;10 Momotaro that was made for days like this. \u00a0i grabbed it, paddled out, and had one of the best sessions in a while.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112396\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_5971.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>thank you Momotaro for flowing so gracefully. \u00a0if it wasn&#8217;t for you, i&#8217;d still be sitting on the beach wondering what to do. \u00a0haha.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112397\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_5972.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/>Les has been surfing Rockpiles his whole life. \u00a0everyday he will be down there sweeping the parking lot, raking the leaves, and just being a cool local. \u00a0 good to see guys like this giving back to our surf spots&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-112398\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/IMG_5969-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/>saw the news of yet another free diver found dead on the bottom of the ocean. \u00a0this time it was Australian Olympic Snowboarder Alex Pullin. \u00a0only 32 years old and his whole life ahead of him. \u00a0he probably had &#8220;shallow water blackout&#8221; and once again, it makes me really think about the dangers of free diving. \u00a0i know it can happen to me anytime i put my mask on. but i also know that us free divers know the dangers and will be content on when our time is up. \u00a0so maybe that&#8217;s why we live each day like it&#8217;s our last. \u00a0and only a free diver will know that feeling&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>sat on the beach in the morning thinking &#8220;um, waves too small to shortboard, tide too low to foil, what should i do? \u00a0then i remembered i have my custom 5&#8217;10 Momotaro that was made for days like this. \u00a0i grabbed it, paddled out, and had one of the best sessions in a while.\u00a0thank you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-112393","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\/112393","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=112393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}