{"id":2342,"date":"2009-09-26T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T09:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2009\/09\/26\/another-world-champion\/"},"modified":"2009-09-26T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T09:52:07","slug":"another-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=2342","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER WORLD CHAMPION?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good evening.  it&#8217;s getting cold here in japan.  last night i was freezing riding my bike back from the train station.  i don&#8217;t know how people ride bikes in the winter here.  and i also didn&#8217;t know you can get drunk driving riding a bicycle here.  crazy yeah?  anyway, i&#8217;m almost done with work so i&#8217;m packing up my bags and hopefully going home soon.  this typhoon season has been a great one for me.  i surfed good waves, got barreled, dove good spots, caught a lot of fish, took cool photos, explored, and had experiences that will last a lifetime.  i&#8217;m tired, but happy!!!  have a great evening&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_4146.jpg\" width=\"427\" height=\"640\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ni was in shikoku watching the waves when this grandpa photographer pulled up next to me.  he kept on talking and talking to me and i was just saying &#8220;hai, hai&#8221;&#8230;.  i understood maybe 20% of what he was saying.  i still don&#8217;t understand the different types of japanese and it confuses me.  i guess it&#8217;s impossible for me to understand every dialect because i don&#8217;t think your regular japanese guy from tokyo would understand it either&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/P1000943.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ni was taking a nap under this bridge in koichi prefecture waiting for matchi to come in from surfing.  then i saw a fisherman so i went to talk to him.  this time, i think i only understood 5% of what he was saying.  then i remembered something.  15 years ago, i borrowed matchi&#8217;s car and drove 3 hours into the country by myself.  i couldn&#8217;t understand japanese back then so when i got lost, i got lost.  i thought i&#8217;d never make my way back to his house.  it was fun, but i got scared when it started to get dark&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20090926104603.jpeg\" width=\"269\" height=\"358\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nand last, wanted to congratulate jeff hubbard for winning the bb contest!!!  another world champion?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.go-naminori.com\/jeffhubbard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">**CLICK HERE TO FOLLOW JEFF HUBBARD TO ANOTHER WORLD CHAMPION&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good evening. it&#8217;s getting cold here in japan. last night i was freezing riding my bike back from the train station. i don&#8217;t know how people ride bikes in the winter here. and i also didn&#8217;t know you can get drunk driving riding a bicycle here. crazy yeah? anyway, i&#8217;m almost done with work so [&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-2342","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\/2342","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=2342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}