{"id":17815,"date":"2012-05-11T14:11:32","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T05:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=17815"},"modified":"2012-05-11T14:11:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T05:11:32","slug":"17815","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=17815","title":{"rendered":"Vespa, Ticket, Mangos, Harley, Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=17817\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17817\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/photo-22.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17817\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ntoday was such a beautiful day.  jumped on the vespa this morning and headed to waikiki for a swim.  swam out past canoes and back. it was picture perfect.  then rode over to bowls to check the waves.  the waves looked super fun but i&#8217;ve been surfing too much so decided to take a break today.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=17816\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17816\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/photo-16.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-17816\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nafter i came out of the water in waikiki, one of the beach boys yelled to me &#8220;hey kirby, how&#8217;s your mango tree?&#8221;  what?  i hardly know this guy?  and he&#8217;s asking me about a mango tree i don&#8217;t even have?  so i yell back &#8220;what?  i don&#8217;t have a mango tree.&#8221;  then he walks toward me, opens a bag, and pulls out 2 big ripe mangos.  he said &#8220;this is for you.&#8221;  wow!  i was so happy.  this is the spirit of aloha, and this is why i love hawaii!  as i was walking back to the vespa with my mask, fins, and 2 ripe mangos.  a couple of tourist come up to me and said &#8220;how was the snorkeling?&#8221;  i told them, &#8220;the water is so clean and look what i found&#8221;  as i held up the mangos.  they said &#8220;really?&#8221;  i said, &#8220;really.&#8221;  haha.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=17819\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17819\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/photo-43.jpg\" alt=\"photo 4\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-17819\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen i get back to my vespa and guess what?????  a fricken parking ticket!!!!  OMG!  why?  everybody tells me that i can park that thing anywhere and don&#8217;t have to pay the meter.  so i park it between 2 cars on the street like everybody else.  then i come back and see a ticket?  what?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=17820\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17820\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/photo-52.jpg\" alt=\"photo 5\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-17820\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n$35 dollars.  i was super pissed.  but the beach boy that gave me the mangos made my day.  $35 is just money, but getting a mango with aloha is priceless.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=17818\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17818\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/photo-33.jpg\" alt=\"photo 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-17818\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen i jumped on the harley and headed to sandy beach.  haven&#8217;t been out there in a while and every time i go there without my surfboard, the waves are good!  it was sunny, warm, overhead, and only 4 surfers out.  what a beautiful place!<br \/>\ntoday was my day off so i just took everything as it came.  went to visit my nephews, went to visit my grandpa, and rode around hawaii enjoying the perfect weather and clean air.  i have a few days off so i&#8217;m online searching for a place to go, or for something to do.  what?  when?  where?  how?  i don&#8217;t know.  i&#8217;m just going with the flow and where ever the flow takes me, i&#8217;m there.  have a great evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today was such a beautiful day. jumped on the vespa this morning and headed to waikiki for a swim. swam out past canoes and back. it was picture perfect. then rode over to bowls to check the waves. the waves looked super fun but i&#8217;ve been surfing too much so decided to take a break [&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-17815","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\/17815","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=17815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}