{"id":123497,"date":"2022-10-29T13:39:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T04:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=123497"},"modified":"2022-10-29T13:39:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T04:39:03","slug":"wonderful-roots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=123497","title":{"rendered":"Wonderful Roots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-123498\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0360.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0360-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0360-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0360-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0360-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0360-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0360-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0360-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/IMG_0360-265x198.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>12 years ago, i decided to search for my family roots. \u00a0i asked my Grandpa Fukunaga and he told me he had a younger sister that lived in Yokohama. \u00a0so i called her up, went to her house, and met her for the very first time. \u00a0we had a really nice talk about our family history. \u00a0we ate sushi, drank a beer, and laughed a lot. \u00a0Aunty was very positive and talked about her big family. \u00a0i even met a cousin that i didn&#8217;t know i had at her house too. \u00a0 when i was leaving, i gave Aunty a hug and told her &#8220;i&#8217;m so happy to have met you. \u00a0you have a good life.&#8221; \u00a0she replied &#8220;no, i have a wonderful life!&#8221; \u00a0i haven&#8217;t used the word wonderful up until that day, but ever since, i use &#8220;wonderful&#8221; every single day. \u00a0because she was right, life isn&#8217;t only good, life is wonderful! \u00a0Aunty passed away a few years after that visit but her words of wisdom still lives deep in my heart&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 years ago, i decided to search for my family roots. \u00a0i asked my Grandpa Fukunaga and he told me he had a younger sister that lived in Yokohama. \u00a0so i called her up, went to her house, and met her for the very first time. \u00a0we had a really nice talk about our family [&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-123497","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\/123497","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=123497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123499,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123497\/revisions\/123499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}