{"id":35822,"date":"2013-06-24T06:02:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T21:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=35822"},"modified":"2013-06-24T06:02:24","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T21:02:24","slug":"heavy-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=35822","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good morning.  jet lag to it&#8217;s finest.  got up at 3am and couldn&#8217;t go back to sleep.  raining hard outside, and just killing time as i leave for the airport soon.  8 hour flight from honolulu to osaka, then another 8 hour flight to bali.  2 days ago, i was riding the harley in the pouring rain kind of bummed i couldn&#8217;t get a flight.  i was so focused on central america.  i made a few calls, and now i&#8217;m going to the other side of the world.  this trip was intended to be a surf\/relax kind of trip, but as soon as i got to Kimura-san&#8217;s house, Atsuko-san gave me 2 bottles of Jack Daniels to take to bali.  then after having a wonderful dinner last night with Naohiro and the wakayama boys, i realized that this trip will no longer be a relax trip, it&#8217;s going to be a crazy trip.  i have so many friends in bali and the bintang beers go down way to easy.  so getting up this morning, i told myself &#8220;oh my gosh, this trip is going to be crazy!&#8221;  then i thought how i&#8217;m very fortunate to have friends all over the world.  so i just told myself &#8220;let the party begin!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-223.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-223.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35818\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nafter a perfect flight, i was the first to get out of the airplane.  i walked down the hall, and the door was closed, and locked.  OMG!  this is the 2nd time this year it&#8217;s happened.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-1-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-1-copy.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1 copy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35817\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe hallway started getting crowded of passengers that were getting off the airplane.  15 minutes later, the staff came to open the door.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-315.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-315.jpg\" alt=\"photo 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35819\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen guess what?  the escalator wasn&#8217;t working.  then an elder japanese man yelled out &#8220;what, noboby works on sundays anymore?&#8221;  everybody started laughing and i was happy to see the good sense of humor in a situation where a lot of people were getting angry.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-414.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-414.jpg\" alt=\"photo 4\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35820\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen i walk out, the Yamari van is waiting.  this time i was alone.  i jumped in, drove out of the airport, and somehow made the 1 hour drive to Yamari.  i have to drive it back soon alone again and i&#8217;m sure learning a lot about how not to drive on the opposite side of the road.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-59-e1372020324710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/photo-59-e1372020324710.jpg\" alt=\"photo 5\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-35821\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIkora has the best okonomiyaki in the world!  if we had one of these in hawaii, there would be a line all night long.  after a long flight, the beers were tasting good.  check out these cool suntory glasses.  i was drinking heavy class but as soon as i got in the car after dinner, i fell asleep.  it was only 10pm here but 3am for me in hawaii time.  i usually sleep at 9:30pm so that was way too late for me.<br \/>\nwell, better get going because the party in bali is waiting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good morning. jet lag to it&#8217;s finest. got up at 3am and couldn&#8217;t go back to sleep. raining hard outside, and just killing time as i leave for the airport soon. 8 hour flight from honolulu to osaka, then another 8 hour flight to bali. 2 days ago, i was riding the harley in the [&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-35822","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\/35822","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=35822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}