{"id":1859,"date":"2009-07-05T14:58:25","date_gmt":"2009-07-05T05:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2009\/07\/05\/the-king-of-sports\/"},"modified":"2009-07-05T14:58:25","modified_gmt":"2009-07-05T05:58:25","slug":"the-king-of-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=1859","title":{"rendered":"The King of Sports&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>happy 4th of july!!!  i tried to surf today but no luck.  absolutely no parking!!!   it seems like the whole island is at ala moana today waiting for the fireworks show tonight.  it&#8217;s going to be an awesome show and i&#8217;ll be there for sure!!!  i might have to ride my skateboard&#8230;.  anyway, happy independence day to you all&#8230;  drive safe and have a great evening&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090705074715.jpeg\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nwe&#8217;ve been shooting for a japanese magazine the past few days.  we do this every year on the south shore and it&#8217;s cool to meet up with everybody and surf together.  i can just sit around and talk story all day.  yesterday, i was watching the waves and talking to kondo-san and shuji kasuya for a couple of hours.  unlike the north shore, the south shore is all about having fun with no pressure of catching the biggest and best wave.  i guess you can call it &#8220;happy surfing&#8221;&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090705075123.jpeg\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nand the south shore is not about only us having fun, it&#8217;s about everybody having fun&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090705075209.jpeg\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ni&#8217;ve been putting on destination deck patches on my small boards recently.  it protects my tail while giving me traction.  this is the new mikala jones pad.  i&#8217;m going to try it tomorrow and hope i can get as many barrels as mikala gets&#8230;&#8230;<br \/>\n<font color=\"red\">**and last, my friend scott countryman lives the dream life in the philippines.  i sent him an email a few weeks ago thanking him for inspiring me back in 2003.  since then, it has been my dream to own a big boat and surf the world just like he does.  i just need a couple more million dollars and i&#8217;ll be there&#8230;  haha..  thanks scott and hope to surf and dive with you this typhoon season in the philippine sea&#8230;<br \/>\n<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>happy 4th of july!!! i tried to surf today but no luck. absolutely no parking!!! it seems like the whole island is at ala moana today waiting for the fireworks show tonight. it&#8217;s going to be an awesome show and i&#8217;ll be there for sure!!! i might have to ride my skateboard&#8230;. anyway, happy independence [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1859","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-go-naminori"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859","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=1859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}