{"id":120918,"date":"2021-12-24T11:01:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T02:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=120918"},"modified":"2021-12-24T06:12:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T21:12:39","slug":"crazy-gaijin-in-shonan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=120918","title":{"rendered":"Crazy Gaijin in Shonan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-95245\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_9530-800x468.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>another beautiful morning here at Ala Moana. \u00a0lovely off shore breezes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-95247\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/IMG_9531-800x487.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"487\" \/><\/p>\n<p>if you have the right board, you can have a lot of fun. \u00a0walking on water is like a dream&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-95246\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/photo-6-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>back in 1992, i moved to Japan. \u00a0i spoke no Japanese, and i had no friends. \u00a0there was no internet, no cellular phones, and definitely no google maps. \u00a0i lived in Shonan so i use to drive this mini car every morning to the beach. \u00a0i would look for surf up and down the coast getting lost everywhere i went. \u00a0it took me 3 months to figure out that Shonan is a bay. \u00a0so when it&#8217;s flat, it&#8217;s totally flat. \u00a0 i didn&#8217;t give up searching for waves every single day and when i found it, i would illegally park the car on the main road, grab my surfboard, and run screaming to the beach. \u00a0people must have thought i was crazy. \u00a0and for a guy that surfed everyday in his life to go without waves for weeks, i was literally crazy. \u00a0haha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>another beautiful morning here at Ala Moana. \u00a0lovely off shore breezes&#8230; if you have the right board, you can have a lot of fun. \u00a0walking on water is like a dream&#8230; back in 1992, i moved to Japan. \u00a0i spoke no Japanese, and i had no friends. \u00a0there was no internet, no cellular phones, and [&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":{"0":"post-120918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirbyblog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120918","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=120918"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120919,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120918\/revisions\/120919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}