{"id":119261,"date":"2021-07-19T05:13:58","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T20:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=119261"},"modified":"2021-07-18T14:14:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T05:14:42","slug":"silent-night-tuna-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=119261","title":{"rendered":"Silent Night Tuna Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119265\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2747.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2747.jpg 640w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2747-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2747-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2747-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2747-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i really miss the days of traveling around the world. \u00a0meeting such happy people and eating delicious street food. \u00a0in this case, let&#8217;s go back to Mexico 2015!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119267\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-27-at-11.51.41-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"959\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-27-at-11.51.41-AM.png 959w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-27-at-11.51.41-AM-300x162.png 300w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-27-at-11.51.41-AM-768x416.png 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-27-at-11.51.41-AM-696x377.png 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-27-at-11.51.41-AM-776x420.png 776w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 959px) 100vw, 959px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>as a free diver, my dream was always to spear a yellowfin tuna. \u00a0i spent thousands of dollars on trips and equipment trying to make that happen, and i wasn&#8217;t going to give up until it did. \u00a0airplane transits, long car drives, and even longer boat rides, i found myself in the middle of the Pacific Ocean off Baja Mexico.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119262\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_3106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_3106.jpg 640w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_3106-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>when hunting tuna, you may or may not even see a single fish on the whole trip. \u00a0but when you do see a huge monster fish swimming in the deepest dark blue sea, you better keep calm. \u00a0everything has to be precise, and you better be able to seize the moment because that moment may never come again in your lifetime. \u00a0in this case, i was singing &#8220;silent night&#8221; in my head because nothing gets me more happier and calmer than Christmas!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119263\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-27-at-9.52.12-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"742\" height=\"447\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-27-at-9.52.12-AM.png 742w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-27-at-9.52.12-AM-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-27-at-9.52.12-AM-696x419.png 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-11-27-at-9.52.12-AM-697x420.png 697w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>spearing the fish is the easy part, getting it on the boat is the challenge. \u00a0you have to kill it, you have to make sure it doesn&#8217;t kill you, and you have to make sure the sharks don&#8217;t eat it, or eat you. \u00a0so you can&#8217;t celebrate until it&#8217;s on the boat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119264\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2639-e1448423802432.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2639-e1448423802432.jpg 480w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2639-e1448423802432-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2639-e1448423802432-315x420.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>after i shot a hole in one on the golf course, i stopped golfing. \u00a0and after shot this prized yellowfin tuna, i stopped hunting for tuna. \u00a0a big box checked off my &#8220;bucket list.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-119266\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2880.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2880.jpg 640w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2880-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2880-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2880-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_2880-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i brought most of that tuna home and ate sashimi every night for a week. \u00a0no fish tastes better than the fish you hunted. \u00a0i relive that moment many times, especially when i&#8217;m singing &#8220;Silent Night&#8221; at Christmas. \u00a0haha&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i really miss the days of traveling around the world. \u00a0meeting such happy people and eating delicious street food. \u00a0in this case, let&#8217;s go back to Mexico 2015! as a free diver, my dream was always to spear a yellowfin tuna. \u00a0i spent thousands of dollars on trips and equipment trying to make that happen, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirbyblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119261","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=119261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119268,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119261\/revisions\/119268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}