{"id":121458,"date":"2022-03-01T05:15:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T20:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=121458"},"modified":"2022-02-28T14:26:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-28T05:26:56","slug":"never-impossible-the-kelia-moniz-foil-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=121458","title":{"rendered":"Never Impossible:  The Kelia Moniz Foil Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i was at the dining table the other night with Kelia and we had a very nice adult talk. \u00a0i was listening to her and i couldn&#8217;t believe how mature she is. \u00a0very smart, very clever, and very ambitious. \u00a0but most of all, very sweet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96835\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_5035-e1558162832626.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<p>looking back at our trip to Bali a few years ago, this was the highlight. \u00a0Kelia said she wanted to foil so we went foiling.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96837\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_5127.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>it was her very first time on a foil but she didn&#8217;t look nervous at all. \u00a0she was riding my board which was way too big for her, but she didn&#8217;t care. \u00a0that was 1000% confidence. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96836\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_5061.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i actually thought she was going to get hurt but on her first wave, she popped up very easily and kept on riding and riding. \u00a0then she said &#8220;take me to the outside and tow me into a wave!!!&#8221; \u00a0what? \u00a0really???<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96838\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-18-at-2.51.06-PM-663x365-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>yes, really! \u00a0us boys were in the channel watching Kelia on her first foil wave on her first try at foiling. \u00a0if you ask any of my foiler friends, none of them will believe because it was impossible for us to do that. \u00a0well, Kelia Moniz doesn&#8217;t believe in the word impossible. \u00a0if you tell her she can&#8217;t do something, she will do it. \u00a0thanks to her 4 brothers pushing her to her limits her entire life&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i was at the dining table the other night with Kelia and we had a very nice adult talk. \u00a0i was listening to her and i couldn&#8217;t believe how mature she is. \u00a0very smart, very clever, and very ambitious. \u00a0but most of all, very sweet. looking back at our trip to Bali a few years [&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-121458","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\/121458","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=121458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121459,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121458\/revisions\/121459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}