{"id":121447,"date":"2022-02-27T05:55:21","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T20:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=121447"},"modified":"2022-02-26T14:10:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T05:10:03","slug":"women-of-the-sea-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=121447","title":{"rendered":"Women of the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96802\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-shot-2014-10-11-at-1.59.40-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"653\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ever since i went to Japan 32 years ago, i&#8217;ve always been fascinated with the Amasan. \u00a0i saw photos of how they use to dive like this for abalone and it was my dream to dive with them someday. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96803\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_5454-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>25 year later, my dream came true. \u00a0the only thing different is that wetsuits were invented. \u00a0so it meant being warmer and being able to stay in the ocean longer. \u00a0i dove with these Amasan ladies that were in their 80&#8217;s. \u00a0they used 30lbs of weight, they had no fins, no snorkel, and they could stay down longer than me. \u00a0and these ladies kept on going up and down and up and down all morning long. \u00a0i&#8217;m not sure how long more Amasan&#8217;s will be around, but this is one of the highlights of my life.\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96800\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_5611.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then i found the Amasan&#8217;s of South Korea. \u00a0working hard along the ocean side for decades. \u00a0this is their life, and this is their place. \u00a0i couldn&#8217;t understand their language, but i could understand their connection to the ocean. \u00a0it showed in their smiles&#8230;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96801\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/20100201044256.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>it took me 25 years for this dream to come true. \u00a0and when that day came, it was well worth the wait. \u00a0once again, this was one of the happiest days of my life. \u00a0thank you to the &#8220;Women of the Sea.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ever since i went to Japan 32 years ago, i&#8217;ve always been fascinated with the Amasan. \u00a0i saw photos of how they use to dive like this for abalone and it was my dream to dive with them someday. \u00a0 25 year later, my dream came true. \u00a0the only thing different is that wetsuits were [&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-121447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirbyblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121447","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=121447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121448,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121447\/revisions\/121448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}