{"id":145034,"date":"2026-11-05T05:26:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=145034"},"modified":"2026-11-05T13:47:19","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T04:47:19","slug":"love-the-philippines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=145034","title":{"rendered":"Love the Philippines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-145035\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1234.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1234.jpeg 2016w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1234-800x600.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1234-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1234-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1234-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1234-696x522.jpeg 696w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1234-1068x801.jpeg 1068w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1234-1920x1440.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1234-560x420.jpeg 560w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1234-80x60.jpeg 80w, https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_1234-265x198.jpeg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2016px) 100vw, 2016px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m so proud of my nephew Seth. \u00a0He won Tahiti, then got 5th place in Portugal, and another 5th place in the Philippines. \u00a0Next is Pipeline and a win there would be the icing on the cake.<\/p>\n<p>Well, I had mixed feelings when watching the Cloud 9 contest. \u00a0I surfed there with practically nobody about 25 years ago when the world never knew about Siargao. \u00a0It was so pure back then. \u00a0Dirt roads, local people, and just pure nature. \u00a0The lineup at Cloud 9 was empty. \u00a0Just a handful of surfers that traveled days just to get there. \u00a0It kind of reminded me of how Canggu use to be before tourism ruined it. \u00a0Anyway, Siargao is still growing fast and is becoming the next Canggu. \u00a0I just hope people can go there respectfully because the people in the Philippines are some of the nicest people in the world. \u00a0So welcoming and so friendly. \u00a0And since it was Seth&#8217;s first time there, I can&#8217;t wait to hear the his stories. \u00a0I&#8217;m pretty sure he loved everything about it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m so proud of my nephew Seth. \u00a0He won Tahiti, then got 5th place in Portugal, and another 5th place in the Philippines. \u00a0Next is Pipeline and a win there would be the icing on the cake. Well, I had mixed feelings when watching the Cloud 9 contest. \u00a0I surfed there with practically nobody about [&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":["post-145034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirbyblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145034","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=145034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145050,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145034\/revisions\/145050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}