{"id":126852,"date":"2023-05-28T05:59:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T20:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=126852"},"modified":"2023-05-27T12:11:26","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T03:11:26","slug":"the-eye-of-mad-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=126852","title":{"rendered":"The Eye of Mad Scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-126853\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1685066852280-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1685066852280-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1685066852280-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1685066852280-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1685066852280-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1685066852280-696x392.jpg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1685066852280-1068x601.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1685066852280-747x420.jpg 747w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/1685066852280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Right now there is a Super Typhoon spinning towards the Philippines. \u00a0It brings back memories of tracking these typhoons and jumping on a flight to Japan to surf it. \u00a0Now that I look back, it seems crazy to chase these catastrophic storms and put yourself right in the line. \u00a0We would surf the swells as it arrives, and as it passes by. \u00a0In the meantime, we&#8217;d be sitting in wooden houses as the winds felt like the roof will blow off. \u00a0There were a couple of times we were right in the middle of the eye and it suddenly turned calm, sunny, and very hot. \u00a0Then 20 minutes later, you&#8217;re holding on for your life again. \u00a0We as typhoon chasers were like mad scientists. \u00a0Tracking 25 typhoons a year for 20 years, you learn a lot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Right now there is a Super Typhoon spinning towards the Philippines. \u00a0It brings back memories of tracking these typhoons and jumping on a flight to Japan to surf it. \u00a0Now that I look back, it seems crazy to chase these catastrophic storms and put yourself right in the line. \u00a0We would surf the swells as [&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-126852","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\/126852","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=126852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126854,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126852\/revisions\/126854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}