{"id":3409,"date":"2010-06-27T13:05:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T04:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2010\/06\/27\/a-family-tradition\/"},"modified":"2010-06-27T13:05:45","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T04:05:45","slug":"a-family-tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=3409","title":{"rendered":"A Family Tradition&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100523064428.jpeg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nsince i was a little boy, every time i left my grandparents house, my grandpa and grandma would put a hawaiian sun juice in a plastic bag for me to take home.  they would do it for my brothers and sister too.  even to this day!!!  i use to refuse taking it home because i didn&#8217;t want my grandparents to have to go out and buy more because it was heavy.  but these days, i take it with a smile on my face.  i know that my grandpa really wants to give it to me, and also wants to keep the family tradition alive.  and that&#8217;s more important to me&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100523064451.jpeg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthis is my last living grandparent.  grandpa fukunaga is 91 years old.  he&#8217;s really energetic and healthy.  grandpa&#8217;s been there for us since we were born and still is.  every time i go to his house, we talk about mt. fuji, japanese culture, WWII, and the hardships they had as second generation japanese\/american citizens.  he has almost a decade of experience and i want to know everything about it.  next time i see grandpa, i&#8217;m going to ask him about my roots.  i&#8217;m going to start by getting my great grandparents names and cities where they were born.  i&#8217;m looking forward to that&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100523064504.jpeg\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nnow days, leaving my grandpa&#8217;s house is hard for me.  i remember looking at the wonderful garden of plants and flowers my grandma planted.  then as i jumped into my car, i remember seeing my grandpa and grandma waving goodbye to me until my car is far down the street.  now it&#8217;s only grandpa waving goodbye and once i turn the corner, i can&#8217;t hold back my tears&#8230;  ahh..  this is too hard, i better stop&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>since i was a little boy, every time i left my grandparents house, my grandpa and grandma would put a hawaiian sun juice in a plastic bag for me to take home. they would do it for my brothers and sister too. even to this day!!! i use to refuse taking it home because i [&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-3409","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\/3409","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=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}