{"id":123136,"date":"2022-09-30T05:38:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T20:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=123136"},"modified":"2022-09-29T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T06:02:48","slug":"chasing-dreams-shikoku-to-honolulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=123136","title":{"rendered":"Chasing Dreams:  Shikoku to Honolulu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101626\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/m1120100403213454.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>about 15 years ago, we did a surf school at Ikumi Beach on the beautiful island of Shikoku. \u00a0it was so cool to see so many kids show up for this event.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123137\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image.png 640w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-600x450.png 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-560x420.png 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-265x198.png 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Matchi, Tony Moniz, Seth Moniz, and i were the coaches.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101628\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/CIMG3579.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>there was this cute little girl that surfed really good. \u00a0she must have been like 7 years old. \u00a0i clearly remembered her because of her cute smile.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101627\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Screen-Shot-2018-02-21-at-3.03.01-PM-800x449.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" \/><\/p>\n<p>fast forward 10 years later. \u00a0i see this girl long boarding at Bowls and surfing really good! \u00a0i knew she was from Shikoku because of the board she was riding. \u00a0we started talking and found out we have a lot of mutual acquaintances. \u00a0her name was Minami Konaka.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123138\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1.png 1280w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1-600x362.png 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1-1024x618.png 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1-768x464.png 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1-696x420.png 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1-1068x645.png 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/image-1-695x420.png 695w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i knew her sponsor, i knew her mentor, and that&#8217;s all i knew about her. \u00a0well, that&#8217;s what i thought&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101625\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/IMG_2592-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>after Minami-chan went back to Japan, she sent me this photo. \u00a0OMG!!!!! \u00a0she was that little cute girl from that day we did the surf school in Shikoku! \u00a0what a small world!!! \u00a0it&#8217;s so cool to see her still chasing her dreams&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>about 15 years ago, we did a surf school at Ikumi Beach on the beautiful island of Shikoku. \u00a0it was so cool to see so many kids show up for this event. &nbsp; Matchi, Tony Moniz, Seth Moniz, and i were the coaches. there was this cute little girl that surfed really good. \u00a0she must [&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-123136","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\/123136","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=123136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123139,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123136\/revisions\/123139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}