{"id":3361,"date":"2010-06-13T23:31:58","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T14:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2010\/06\/13\/true-waterman-keoni-watson\/"},"modified":"2010-06-13T23:31:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-13T14:31:58","slug":"true-waterman-keoni-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=3361","title":{"rendered":"True Waterman:  Keoni Watson&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good sunday morning.  4 am and today is going to be another productive day.  no, i&#8217;m not surfing.  no, i&#8217;m not touching my computer.  and no, i&#8217;m not answering any phone calls.  today, i&#8217;m going to do something really spiritual.  something that helps my surfing,  something that helps my work, and something that helps me be nice to people.  if i didn&#8217;t do it, i&#8217;d surf shitty, i couldn&#8217;t work, and i&#8217;d be an asshole.<br \/>\n<font color=\"red\">I&#8217;M GOING DIVING!!!!  YEAH!!!<br \/>\n<\/font><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1079.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nwhen i was at sandy beach the other day, a truck pulled up early in the morning with a paddle board on the racks.  it was keoni watson.  keoni and i go way back.  we use to surf contests back in the 80&#8217;s.  keoni is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet.  it was good to see him still loving the ocean&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1082.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ngreat surfer, great paddler, great guy, and great waterman.  and for those of you who don&#8217;t know keoni, he&#8217;s a big player in Billabong Hawaii, and Vertra Suncare.  also a big wave surfer.  but most of all, just a pure happy nice guy&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1088.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nit was the first time i seen a paddle board up close.  i bet these things are expensive.  i wonder how much it costs for one?  look how shinny the bottom is.  i bet that thing is fast!  hey keoni, i like try?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1093.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ni wonder if he paddled to molokai?  as i was driving home, i was wondering how i could test out a paddleboard.  when i saw keoni jump in the water and paddle out past the lineup in seconds, i got a little excited.  oh no, i better stop dreaming before you see me with one tomorrow.  haha..    but really, if anyone has one i can try out, please let me know&#8230;.<br \/>\np.s.  aren&#8217;t these photos cool?  here is a friend of mine i knew for 25 years.  after a quarter of a century, this is the first photo i have of keoni.  i&#8217;m going to keep it forever because this is the happy face keoni i know.  a guy that&#8217;s always smiling&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good sunday morning. 4 am and today is going to be another productive day. no, i&#8217;m not surfing. no, i&#8217;m not touching my computer. and no, i&#8217;m not answering any phone calls. today, i&#8217;m going to do something really spiritual. something that helps my surfing, something that helps my work, and something that helps me [&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-3361","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\/3361","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=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}