{"id":3759,"date":"2010-09-03T14:01:15","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T05:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2010\/09\/03\/luck-or-chance\/"},"modified":"2010-09-03T14:01:15","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T05:01:15","slug":"luck-or-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=3759","title":{"rendered":"Luck or Chance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>get this story.  last week sunday, we were surfing down at a river mouth in kochi.  kimura-san hit the bottom and lost a fin.  he came out pretty bummed because he just got the scarfini fins from matchi and it was working really good.  later that day, kimura-san goes back to wakayama, i go back to tokushima.<br \/>\nfast forward 3 days.  new typhoon.  kimura-san goes back to kochi, i drive with matchi early that morning and we meet up.  we all surf a totally different river mouth on a totally different swell.  i walk out of the water after surfing 2 hours, i bend down to take off my leash and see something in the corner of my eye.  a fin?  what?  i pick it up, look at it, and remembered &#8220;shit, this is the fin kimura-san lost down at the other river mouth.&#8221;  i seriously thought somebody was playing a joke on me.  i actually looked around to see if somebody was taking video of my reaction.  it was too freaky.  the fin probably washed up on the beach on the same wave i caught in.  no way, it can&#8217;t be&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/20100902144253.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20100902144253.jpg\" width=\"488\" height=\"650\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nit was.  i walk to the car and told kimura-san i found something.  i pulled out the fin and his eyes popped out in disbelief.  what a trip!!  am i lucky?  i found a bag full of oysters in the ocean the day before, and now i found his fin from 3 days ago?  i was in a daze thinking what were the odds of that happening.<br \/>\nso today, i will book my ticket to las vegas and roll with my luck.  don&#8217;t be surprised if i come back with 100 million dollars&#8230;.<br \/>\n**anyway, have a great evening and see you at the barrels contest and barbecue tomorrow at ikumi!  i wonder what i will find down there&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>get this story. last week sunday, we were surfing down at a river mouth in kochi. kimura-san hit the bottom and lost a fin. he came out pretty bummed because he just got the scarfini fins from matchi and it was working really good. later that day, kimura-san goes back to wakayama, i go back [&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-3759","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\/3759","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=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}