{"id":2016,"date":"2009-08-06T07:30:58","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T22:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2009\/08\/06\/mensore-means-aloha\/"},"modified":"2009-08-06T07:30:58","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T22:30:58","slug":"mensore-means-aloha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"Mensore Means Aloha!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1000352.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nok, imagine your shoulder going 30KM straight down onto live coral.  i swear i thought my whole right side of my body ripped off.  it all happened in 2 seconds and i&#8217;ll be feeling pain for weeks or months.<br \/>\nafter traveling all these years, as soon as something bad happens like getting hurt, the first thing that comes to my mind is &#8216;i wanna go home&#8221;&#8230;  it&#8217;s nothing about being homesick or anything, it&#8217;s just i feel so comfortable in hawaii with the hospitals and stuff.  so after hitting that hard and shaking up my whole body and soul, i was ready to drop everything and get back to hawaii the fastest way possible&#8230;<br \/>\n<font color=\"red\">BUT&#8230;..<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\ni feel like home here in okinawa.  the people here are so caring and loving&#8230;  people were helping me all night trying to cheer me up and make me feel comfortable.  i&#8217;m really thankful for having such awesome people like that around me.  it&#8217;s the aloha spirit that you won&#8217;t find in too many places&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090805151851.jpeg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nas down as i was, i couldn&#8217;t be happier around such happy people.  this was at hokulea with satoru-san, yumi-chan, and youichi-san.  thanks guys&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090805152134.jpeg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nafter dinner, youichi-san took me over to hard reef to kill the pain.  after 5 corona&#8217;s and 4 jack and cokes, i didn&#8217;t feel anything&#8230; well, except for youichi-san hugging me and squeezing my shoulder, and hitting my back, and stepping on my cut on my foot all night long.  i would be like &#8220;ouch&#8221;,  then he&#8217;d say &#8220;sorry&#8221;, then do the same thing over and over&#8230;..  it hurt but i know youichi didn&#8217;t mean any harm&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090805152501.jpeg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthen kazubo-san stopped by to drop off some sweet okinawan mangos to cheer me up.  it sure did.   i love this place and wanted to thank everybody for making me feel like it&#8217;s my home&#8230;.<br \/>\n**and also wanted to thank the hundreds of emails and phone calls yesterday from people around the world.  i really really appreciate each and every one of you.  doomo arigato gozaimasu&#8230;.  now i  have to make a decision whether to stay in japan and bear the pain for i don&#8217;t know how long, or go back to hawaii and get proper medical care.   the only problem is that it&#8217;s peak summer vacation here and i can&#8217;t get a flight out of anywhere&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ok, imagine your shoulder going 30KM straight down onto live coral. i swear i thought my whole right side of my body ripped off. it all happened in 2 seconds and i&#8217;ll be feeling pain for weeks or months. after traveling all these years, as soon as something bad happens like getting hurt, the first [&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-2016","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\/2016","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=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}