{"id":12767,"date":"2012-02-11T05:37:50","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T20:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=12767"},"modified":"2012-02-11T05:37:50","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T20:37:50","slug":"champions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=12767","title":{"rendered":"Champions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/kelly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/kelly.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"304\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12769\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nheard that Sports Illustrated magazine is letting the people decide the next &#8220;SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR&#8221; cover shot.  kelly slater is one of the nominees and if he gets the most votes, it will be the first time in history that a surfer will be on the cover.  kelly&#8217;s got the odds against him because he will be competing against world class athletes.  i&#8217;m just hoping that 11 world titles will do him justice and he will pull it off.  you can go to sports illustrated facebook page to vote.  sorry kelly, i don&#8217;t have facebook so i can&#8217;t vote but i&#8217;m hoping you get the prestigious sports illustrated cover!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pipe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/pipe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"630\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12770\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKieren Perrow?  who&#8217;s that?  Kieren was the dark horse who wasn&#8217;t supposed to win the pipe masters.  not too many people know about kieren, but i seen this guy out every morning i dawn patrolled pipe\/backdoor for the past 2 years.  last year, he got second place, this year, he won the dam thing!  so here&#8217;s my message to the kids that want to win a pipe contest someday.  get out there and practice everyday!  the good days, and the shitty days.  john john florence did, jamie o&#8217;brian did, and kieren perrow did.  now they are all pipeline masters champions!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/aaaa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/aaaa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"973\" height=\"748\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12768\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis is mar ohno&#8217;s heat at the vans world cup at sunset.  the first 2 contests of the triple crown, i stayed home and watched it on my computer.  why?  because it&#8217;s better.  on the beach at haleiwa and sunset, it&#8217;s just too far from the action.  but pipeline was different.  watching it front row on the beach was awesome.  i haven&#8217;t missed one in the past 20 years, and never will. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>heard that Sports Illustrated magazine is letting the people decide the next &#8220;SPORTSMAN OF THE YEAR&#8221; cover shot. kelly slater is one of the nominees and if he gets the most votes, it will be the first time in history that a surfer will be on the cover. kelly&#8217;s got the odds against him because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12767","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767","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=12767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}