{"id":26772,"date":"2012-11-27T05:36:22","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T20:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=26772"},"modified":"2012-11-27T05:36:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T20:36:22","slug":"kelia-is-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=26772","title":{"rendered":"Kelia Moniz is World Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, November 25, 2012<br \/>\n11:49am Argentina time<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=26778\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26778\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/moniz_SGPC12_Poullenot_0577-640x426.jpg\" alt=\"Swatch Girl Pro China 2012\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26778\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nkelia was 13 years old and i already knew she was going to be champion in something.  by having 4 completive brothers to push her in anything and everything she does, it&#8217;s only a matter of time.  well, she did it!  not only being roxy internationals main image girl, she is now the ASP World Champion!  when takami-san sent me the news this morning, i was crying tears of joy!  to see my beautiful niece on the top of the surfing world made me a proud uncle.  throughout her professional career, she didn&#8217;t take things serious.  i remember her telling me how it sucked to surf against her best friends.  but the last time i seen her a few weeks ago, she told me &#8220;uncle, i want this.&#8221;  that&#8217;s all i had to hear from her.  she wanted it, and she got it.  focus and you can achieve anything you want in life, just ask kelia moniz.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=26773\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26773\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/FREEWAY-FLOODING-02-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"FREEWAY-FLOODING-02-jpg\" width=\"477\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-26773\" \/><\/a><br \/>\njust checked the news in hawaii and it&#8217;s been raining hard. look at the flooding on the freeway.  omg!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=26775\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26775\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/HAIL-01-Angelyne-Loiselle-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"HAIL-01-Angelyne-Loiselle-jpg\" width=\"477\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-26775\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nhail?  omg!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=26774\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26774\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/LIGHTNING-01-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"LIGHTNING-01-jpg\" width=\"477\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-26774\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nlightning?  omg!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=26777\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26777\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/HAIL-01-Brent-Takushi-jpg.jpg\" alt=\"HAIL-01-Brent-Takushi-jpg\" width=\"477\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-26777\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nimagine these balls of ice falling on your head.  ouch! i hope the weather gets better soon because i&#8217;ll be back home in a few days.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?attachment_id=26776\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26776\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/photo-2-copy-21.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2 copy 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium alignnone size-medium wp-image-26776\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni find south america very interesting.  been going through the super markets and local stores.  i can walk down isle by isle fascinated.  just weird stuff in weird packaging.<br \/>\nwell, the time here is 12 hours behind japan and 7 hours ahead of hawaii.  i know some jet lag will hit me at some point.  i finally got to wash some clothes in my sink, do some yoga, exercise, stretching, pushups, eat a good breakfast, and slept super well.  i feel as fresh as can be.  gonna enjoy the last moments here in this beautiful country of argentina!  have a wonderful day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, November 25, 2012 11:49am Argentina time kelia was 13 years old and i already knew she was going to be champion in something. by having 4 completive brothers to push her in anything and everything she does, it&#8217;s only a matter of time. well, she did it! not only being roxy internationals main image [&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-26772","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\/26772","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=26772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}