{"id":24905,"date":"2012-10-09T14:03:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T05:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=24905"},"modified":"2012-10-09T14:03:37","modified_gmt":"2012-10-09T05:03:37","slug":"pho-fufu-vog-aokis-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=24905","title":{"rendered":"Pho, Fufu, Vog, Aoki&#039;s, Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>what a fun day today.  the waves look junk from the beach but as soon as we got in the water, it got better and better and there were only a few others out.  lucky!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=24907\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24907\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo-113.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" title=\"photo 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24907\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis is the coolest surf couple.  Kosuke-san and Na-chan, I had a great day with you!  good surfing, good pho, good surfboard shopping, and good surfing again.  Thank you and keep on surfing!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=24908\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24908\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo-210.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" title=\"photo 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-24908\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni have a hard time deciding which pho is the best on the island.  but the combination pho from hale vietnam has to be in my top 2.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=24906\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24906\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/photo-47.jpg\" alt=\"photo 4\" title=\"photo 4\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-24906\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe vog is so bad that you can barely see diamond head.  it&#8217;s hot, it&#8217;s muggy, and it&#8217;s ugly.  hawaii looks like LA.  yikes!  and the sad thing that it&#8217;s going to be like this for a few more days.  and more and more days this winter when the south\/west winds kicks up the volcanic smog from the big island.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=24910\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24910\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Screen-shot-2012-10-09-at-1.21.04-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen shot 2012-10-09 at 1.21.04 AM\" title=\"Screen shot 2012-10-09 at 1.21.04 AM\" width=\"624\" height=\"411\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-24910\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwell, Aoki&#8217;s shave ice will be closing!  a part of old haleiwa will be gone forever.  sad.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=24909\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-24909\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/3a1ea66f-7ff5-4d27-98fc-5b437c73e3be-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"3a1ea66f-7ff5-4d27-98fc-5b437c73e3be\" title=\"3a1ea66f-7ff5-4d27-98fc-5b437c73e3be\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-24909\" \/><\/a><br \/>\na tourist came to hawaii the other day, jumped off this cliff, and died.  well, he&#8217;s not the first one.  i grew up about 5 minutes from here and we use to hang out here a lot.  over the years, people die here all the time.  tourists, locals, and even kids.  when you stand on the top, it looks scary.  then when you jump, it&#8217;s even scarier because you jump into a little bay.  one bad judgement, then you&#8217;ll be sashimi on the rocks.  or if you mis-time the wave, you will hit bottom.  and if you land right, that&#8217;s only the easy part.  you still have to climb back out.  that&#8217;s how the tourist died there the other day.  i jumped here before and when i think back, i&#8217;m lucky to be alive.  will i do it again?  probably.  the adrenaline rush is just too rewarding!  would i recommend it to anybody, heck no!  the odds of dying is just too high at this place.<br \/>\nanyway, big waves on the north shore came today.  i&#8217;m going to crawl under my house tonight and get my north shore guns ready.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what a fun day today. the waves look junk from the beach but as soon as we got in the water, it got better and better and there were only a few others out. lucky! this is the coolest surf couple. Kosuke-san and Na-chan, I had a great day with you! good surfing, good pho, [&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":{"0":"post-24905","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905","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=24905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}