{"id":36710,"date":"2013-07-21T01:50:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-20T16:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=36710"},"modified":"2013-07-21T01:50:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-20T16:50:34","slug":"heaven-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=36710","title":{"rendered":"Heaven on Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>wow, what a long flight from HNL to SFO.  i get on my united flight and couldn&#8217;t believe how small my seat was.  i was in economy and the flight was full.  no leg room, no elbow room, and no flat seat.  i was so tried and wanted to sleep but couldn&#8217;t.  5 hours later, i&#8217;m getting off the flight with a stiff neck, sore back, and no sleep.  Kyle told me &#8220;welcome back to the real world.&#8221;  haha.  i thought to myself &#8220;i don&#8217;t like the real world anymore.&#8221;  haha.  just joking.  i just don&#8217;t remember the seats being so small.  but here at San Fran airport waiting to get on another small seat to Los Cabo.  hopefully i&#8217;ll get some sleep.<br \/>\ntraveling with a cool Red Sea group.  feeling relaxed, no stress, and everybody anxious to get into the water.  it&#8217;s a long trip there, but once we do our first dive, it will all be worth it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-123.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-123.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36713\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nchecking in is always weird at the airport with a case full of spearguns.  when they ask, never say gun!  say fishing gear.  the lady that checked me in was really nice.  she kept on calling me &#8220;love.&#8221;  and i felt loved.  that&#8217;s the aloha we have here in hawaii.  nowhere else in the world.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-221.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-221.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36711\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand if this is what heaven looks like, i can&#8217;t wait to get there.  nature stuff like this fascinates me.  makes me want to jump out of the airplane.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-317.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/photo-317.jpg\" alt=\"photo 3\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-36712\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwe land in SFO earlier and i watch as one of our spear cases opened on the flight.  hopefully they put it all back.  we shall see.<br \/>\nwell, going to board the flight.  be in mexico in 3 hours.  then a 2 hour drive to where we will stay.  stay tuned for photos!  viva mexico!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wow, what a long flight from HNL to SFO. i get on my united flight and couldn&#8217;t believe how small my seat was. i was in economy and the flight was full. no leg room, no elbow room, and no flat seat. i was so tried and wanted to sleep but couldn&#8217;t. 5 hours later, [&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-36710","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\/36710","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=36710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}