{"id":125817,"date":"2023-03-21T05:49:02","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T20:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=125817"},"modified":"2023-03-20T07:12:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-19T22:12:36","slug":"backstage-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=125817","title":{"rendered":"Backstage BEGIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last month, Kimura-san told me that BEGIN is going to play live in Wakayama. \u00a0That’s been on my mind the whole time but I wasn’t sure if I could go so I didn’t get excited about it. \u00a0Then a week before, I called him and said “we want to go to BEGIN!” \u00a0He replies, “Sorry, it’s SOLD OUT!” \u00a0OMG!!!! \u00a0I told him “PLEASE find us tickets somehow. \u00a0We will stand in the bathroom if we have to!”\"\"<\/p>\n

Kimura-san wasn’t joking. \u00a0The concert sold out a long time ago. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Then the magic happened. \u00a0We got 6 tickets, including guest tickets to meet the band! \u00a0The power of Kimura-san! \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

I had my camera ready because I wanted to take photos and record vids. \u00a0Then the announcer came on and said no taking photos and videos. \u00a0And since this is Japan, everybody listened, including me. \u00a0I was actually glad I didn’t have my camera out because my full attention was to the music. \u00a0OMG, it was amazing!!!! \u00a0So many chicken skin moments.<\/p>\n

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Then we got to go backstage. \u00a0All 18 of us. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

BEGIN autographed our tickets and CD’s. \u00a0Then we took some photos together. \u00a0These guys are so cool. \u00a0You can feel the aloha island spirit. \u00a0Very humble and typical island boys. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Thank you Kimura-san for making this all happen. \u00a0We were super happy!!!<\/p>\n

After the concert, we had a big happy party. \u00a0Good food, Jack Daniels, games, singing, dancing, laughs and even tears. \u00a0It was all about family, honor, respect, forgiveness, and most of all, LOVE.<\/p>\n

Team Wakayama x Team Okinawa x Team Hawaii!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last month, Kimura-san told me that BEGIN is going to play live in Wakayama. \u00a0That’s been on my mind the whole time but I wasn’t sure if I could go so I didn’t get excited about it. \u00a0Then a week before, I called him and said “we want to go to BEGIN!” \u00a0He replies, “Sorry, […]<\/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-125817","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\/125817","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=125817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125825,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125817\/revisions\/125825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}