{"id":2217,"date":"2009-09-07T19:23:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T10:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2009\/09\/07\/a-surfers-smile\/"},"modified":"2009-09-07T19:23:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T10:23:58","slug":"a-surfers-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=2217","title":{"rendered":"A Surfers Smile&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4078.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthere are so many kids now days surfing here in japan.  it&#8217;s a pretty awesome feeling watching them grow and progress.  i just wish my nephew&#8217;s and niece were here sharing the waves, making friends, and pushing each other to another level.  i&#8217;m living in the dream world now and i would love to see my nephews and niece do the same thing.  so here is a message for them:<br \/>\n<font color=\"blue\">&#8220;get your asses over here!  stop wasting your money on jamba juice smoothies and ipods.  save your money for a ticket and come to japan for an experience of a lifetime.  yeah, kewalo&#8217;s is a great wave but nothing compared to this.  DO SOMETHING!!&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4124.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthis is reika noro, kairi&#8217;s older sister.  i took her surfing one day at 3&#8242; velzyland 2 years ago.  i&#8217;m pretty sure she was crying inside when i was yelling &#8220;go!&#8221;  she was really scared.  since then, her level of surfing improved so much that i was surprised to see her charging this past weekend.  but at the same time, i was happy.   she&#8217;s only 14 years old and has dreams of championships&#8230;.  go reika!!!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4232.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ni&#8217;ve been seeing this kid everyday here.  i don&#8217;t know his name but i can see his smile from miles away. this kid has a radiant smile that just beams.  if you have a great smile, you will have a great future in what ever you do.  this kid will go far in the surfing world for sure.  how&#8217;s his little barrel yesterday off the left?  sick!!!  good luck kid.  and keep on smiling&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>there are so many kids now days surfing here in japan. it&#8217;s a pretty awesome feeling watching them grow and progress. i just wish my nephew&#8217;s and niece were here sharing the waves, making friends, and pushing each other to another level. i&#8217;m living in the dream world now and i would love to see [&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-2217","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\/2217","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=2217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}