{"id":123213,"date":"2022-10-10T05:36:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T20:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=123213"},"modified":"2022-10-09T14:47:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T05:47:38","slug":"barefoot-coconuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=123213","title":{"rendered":"Barefoot Coconuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101819\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_3277-663x442-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"663\" height=\"442\" \/><\/p>\n<p>over 10 years ago, i walked by the Billabong store in Waikiki and saw this advertisement of Seth Moniz. \u00a0back then, nobody in the world knew who this kid was. \u00a0that was just the beginning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101821\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_8693-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then yesterday i was at the Billabong store looking for some warm clothes for Japan. \u00a0when i went to try it on&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101823\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_8683-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>in the dressing room was this big photo of Josh Moniz.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101822\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_8685-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>so i had to peak my head into the other dressing room and guess what? \u00a0yes, there was a big photo of Seth Moniz. \u00a0i was so stoked! \u00a0now these 2 kids are worldwide superstars!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101824\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/P9271044-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>February is a good month to travel to the Philippines. \u00a0it&#8217;s the monsoon season where the North winds blow the waves down the coastline. \u00a0my friend owns a very secluded island where he built a house right in front of his private surf break. \u00a0he always send me videos and it&#8217;s a dream wave. \u00a0the only thing is getting there takes 2 days. \u00a0ummm, i&#8217;m still thinking about it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101820\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_4755-533x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Philippines is one of the friendliest countries in the world. \u00a0super nice people that would climb a 100&#8242; tree barefoot to get you a fresh coconut. \u00a0and for free!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-101818\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_1652-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and the kids are so happy. \u00a0i don&#8217;t see iPhones or iPads, but these kids are some of the happiest i&#8217;ve ever seen. \u00a0always smiling and eager to interact with tourists like me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>over 10 years ago, i walked by the Billabong store in Waikiki and saw this advertisement of Seth Moniz. \u00a0back then, nobody in the world knew who this kid was. \u00a0that was just the beginning&#8230; then yesterday i was at the Billabong store looking for some warm clothes for Japan. \u00a0when i went to try [&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-123213","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\/123213","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=123213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123214,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123213\/revisions\/123214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}