{"id":136456,"date":"2025-04-25T05:20:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T20:20:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=136456"},"modified":"2025-04-24T15:13:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T06:13:46","slug":"field-of-nightmares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=136456","title":{"rendered":"Field of Nightmares"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I was Mateus’s age, I played in the same little league he’s in now. \u00a0I played at this exact same baseball field. \u00a0Going back there brought back good memories, and bad nightmares. \u00a0Good memories include seeing my Grandpa coming to watch me. \u00a0Bad memories include remembering how my coach physically and mentally abused us. \u00a0At 12 years old, he literally use to beat us up with the baseball bat, throw the baseball at our heads, and yell at us until we cried. \u00a0If there were cameras back then, he would be in jail for the rest of his life. \u00a0But that wasn’t the case so we had to live with that trauma for the rest of our lives. \u00a0 46 years later, I still remember everything so clearly. \u00a0I hope my other teammates are ok.<\/p>\n

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This was the age when I use to get abused. \u00a0I was a little kid trying to have fun playing baseball. \u00a0It turned into such a stressful time in my life. \u00a0If I played bad or stuck out, I would get a bat or a ball to my head the next day at practice. \u00a0I was terrified of my coach, I didn’t tell anybody, and I still clearly remember those days like it happened yesterday. \u00a0I quit baseball shortly after because I was scared to get abused. \u00a0One of my teammates is a local surfer at Bowls and we always talk about it. \u00a0We both don’t understand how our coach didn’t go to jail. \u00a0Pretty crazy times…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I was Mateus’s age, I played in the same little league he’s in now. \u00a0I played at this exact same baseball field. \u00a0Going back there brought back good memories, and bad nightmares. \u00a0Good memories include seeing my Grandpa coming to watch me. \u00a0Bad memories include remembering how my coach physically and mentally abused us. […]<\/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-136456","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\/136456","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=136456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137307,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136456\/revisions\/137307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}