{"id":125020,"date":"2023-02-02T14:08:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=125020"},"modified":"2023-02-02T14:08:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T05:08:58","slug":"a-thick-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=125020","title":{"rendered":"A Thick Crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-125021\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2154-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2154-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2154-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2154-768x576.jpg 768w, 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do both?<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-125022\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2155-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2155-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2155-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2155-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2155-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2155-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2155-1068x801.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2155-1920x1440.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2155-560x420.jpg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2155-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2155-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2155.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The crowd was thick this morning. \u00a0If you weren&#8217;t a local, good luck trying to get a wave at Bowls. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-125027\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2165-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2165-600x450.jpg 600w, 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sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t seen it this crowded since last Summer. \u00a0Everybody was super hungry. \u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-125024\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2193-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2193-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2193-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2193-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2193-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2193-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_2193-1068x801.jpg 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sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now I know why I like to foil. \u00a0I don&#8217;t have to share waves with anyone. \u00a0I can take off on a wave and ride 10 waves all to myself. \u00a0I surely don&#8217;t miss these crowds.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-125026\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1376-600x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1376-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1376-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1376-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1376-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/IMG_1376-696x522.jpg 696w, 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didn&#8217;t want to miss. \u00a0So why not do both? The crowd was thick this morning. \u00a0If you weren&#8217;t a local, good luck trying to get a wave at Bowls. \u00a0 I haven&#8217;t seen [&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-125020","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\/125020","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=125020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125028,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125020\/revisions\/125028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}