{"id":122682,"date":"2022-08-06T14:15:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T05:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=122682"},"modified":"2022-08-06T14:15:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-06T05:15:50","slug":"flashback-followed-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=122682","title":{"rendered":"Flashback:  Followed Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100449\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_8040.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1512\" height=\"2016\" \/><\/p>\n<p>here are a couple paragraphs of an article of an interview published in a surfing magazine back in 1989. \u00a0it&#8217;s pretty funny because those exact words i said 33 years ago still apply to my life today. \u00a0i explained how i don&#8217;t have a local surf spot because i surfed all over, \u00a0&#8220;i don&#8217;t care, i just drive around looking for waves! \u00a0and i also explained how i liked to surf alone, &#8220;i can go where i want whenever i want and don&#8217;t have to wait for someone to find a leash or wax their board.&#8221; \u00a0that was 33 years ago and i still feel the exact same. \u00a0looking back, i was only 21 years old and kind of had an idea of my future. \u00a0i just knew that i loved surfing and if i could make a living off it, wonderful. \u00a0but if that career didn&#8217;t work out, i wanted to make sure to take my Grandpa Osaki&#8217;s advice of getting a good education. \u00a0so that&#8217;s what i did&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-100450\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/IMG_4240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i just found a couple of my report cards and although not everybody believed me throughout these years, i actually graduated from the College of Business at the University of Hawaii. \u00a0honestly, i still don&#8217;t believe it myself. \u00a0haha. \u00a0i played hard, surfed harder, and studied the hardest. \u00a0my goal when i entered UH was to graduate with ALL perfect grades. \u00a0i did that for myself, but did it more for my Grandpa. \u00a04.0GPA Grandpa! \u00a0thank you for supporting and believing in me. \u00a0i miss you so much&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>here are a couple paragraphs of an article of an interview published in a surfing magazine back in 1989. \u00a0it&#8217;s pretty funny because those exact words i said 33 years ago still apply to my life today. \u00a0i explained how i don&#8217;t have a local surf spot because i surfed all over, \u00a0&#8220;i don&#8217;t care, [&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-122682","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\/122682","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=122682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122683,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122682\/revisions\/122683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}