{"id":121869,"date":"2022-04-24T13:32:33","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T04:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=121869"},"modified":"2022-04-24T13:32:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T04:32:33","slug":"hawaiian-lifestyle-boy-to-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=121869","title":{"rendered":"Hawaiian Lifestyle:  Boy to Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97992\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-shot-2014-08-05-at-1.19.06-PM-640x342-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p>8 years ago i took this little kid surfing for the first time in his life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97995\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4050-800x431.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"431\" \/><\/p>\n<p>8 years later, i took this big kid surfing for the second time in his life.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97991\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Screen-shot-2014-08-05-at-1.19.49-PM-640x399-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" \/><\/p>\n<p>smiling at 9 years old.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97994\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4048-800x429.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"429\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and smiling at 17 years old.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97996\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4052-800x467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"467\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i couldn&#8217;t believe Yuto-kun stood up on his first wave today and rode every one after perfectly! \u00a0he didn&#8217;t forget anything!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97997\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4049-800x434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"434\" \/><\/p>\n<p>as a coach, this is probably the best reward ever. \u00a0to see a little kid grow into a happy fine young man. \u00a0Yuto-kun remembered everything that happened 8 years ago and i&#8217;m sure he will remember everything today. \u00a0we had so much fun in the ocean and i hope we can do this forever!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-97993\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/IMG_4053-800x468.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>at 8 years ago, Yuto-kun had a dream which was to live in Hawaii. \u00a0well, he&#8217;s going to high school here and has been living his dream. \u00a0now he speaks English, now he has more friends, and now he&#8217;s grown into a fine young man. \u00a0this Hawaii experience is going to teach this kid priceless things in life. \u00a0i&#8217;m so excited for his future! \u00a0thank you Yuto-kun for the wonderful morning, and thank you Yagi-san for letting me experience these precious memories with your son. \u00a0i&#8217;m so happy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>8 years ago i took this little kid surfing for the first time in his life. 8 years later, i took this big kid surfing for the second time in his life. smiling at 9 years old. and smiling at 17 years old. i couldn&#8217;t believe Yuto-kun stood up on his first wave today 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-121869","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\/121869","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=121869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121870,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121869\/revisions\/121870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}