{"id":23944,"date":"2012-09-19T14:02:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T05:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=23944"},"modified":"2012-09-19T14:02:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T05:02:14","slug":"newborn-surfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=23944","title":{"rendered":"Newborn Surfers!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i can&#8217;t believe it!!!  i was hoping for flat waves in okinawa so i can finally go diving.  then i get an email from takami-san saying another typhoon is coming?  really?  gosh, i&#8217;m so over surfed and needed a week of relaxing, diving, and hanging out with friends.  now with the next typhoon coming, it&#8217;s going to be another busy trip for me.  if there&#8217;s waves, i must surf.  that&#8217;s just in my blood.  anyway, i leave tomorrow and my endless summer continues.  can&#8217;t complain right?<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=23945\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23945\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_4472-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4472 copy\" title=\"IMG_4472 copy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23945\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nInaida-san and i surfed probably over 100 times already.  each time progressing, each time relaxing, each time getting stronger, and each time laughing.  i&#8217;ve seen his body change over the past year ever since he started surfing.  stronger, and much healthier.  it makes me happy to see the positive changes surfing can do for a person.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=23946\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23946\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_4447-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4447 copy\" title=\"IMG_4447 copy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-23946\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nInaida-san riding a 9&#8217;6 now.  9&#8217;4 in the making.  and i&#8217;m hoping to get him down to a 9&#8217;0 in the near future.  then it&#8217;s hang 5 time!  then it&#8217;s tube time!  then it&#8217;s mentawai time!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=23948\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23948\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_4489-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4489 copy\" title=\"IMG_4489 copy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-23948\" \/><\/a><br \/>\neverybody out in the water notices Yuki-san&#8217;s progress.  she gets better and better by the wave.  the first time we went surfing, she was a little nervous and scared of the waves.  now?  when she wipes out on a big wave, she comes up and laughs.  it&#8217;s cool how the ocean can bring out the best smiles in anyone.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=23947\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23947\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/IMG_4581-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4581 copy\" title=\"IMG_4581 copy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-23947\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nYuki-san&#8217;s on a 9&#8217;1 in this photo, now she&#8217;s on a 7&#8217;0.  next will be a 6&#8217;4 and watch this girl doing off the lips!<br \/>\nwe enjoy surfing everyday in hawaii.  and we enjoy hawaiian style life.  i haven&#8217;t met 2 people before that have a better life than mine.  and the cool thing about it is they just begun the hawaiian surfing dream last year.  something that will last a lifetime.  like karen carpenter sings &#8220;We&#8217;ve Only Just Begun.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i can&#8217;t believe it!!! i was hoping for flat waves in okinawa so i can finally go diving. then i get an email from takami-san saying another typhoon is coming? really? gosh, i&#8217;m so over surfed and needed a week of relaxing, diving, and hanging out with friends. now with the next typhoon coming, it&#8217;s [&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":["post-23944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirby-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944","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=23944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}