{"id":38837,"date":"2013-10-02T06:46:17","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T21:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=38837"},"modified":"2013-10-02T06:46:17","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T21:46:17","slug":"philippine-culture-chicken-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=38837","title":{"rendered":"Philippine Culture:  Chicken Fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good morning 3am.  gosh, had a great time eating dinner and having a few drinks with the local surfers we met last night.  well, more than a few drinks, more like 4 bottles of great lychee liquor.  the style to drink here is take a shot and pass it around.  after 15 shots, we thought it would be a good time to go back to our hotel and get some much needed sleep.  but yeah, we formed a surfers bond, and today we will surf.  well, i just hope everybody can wake up.  the only reason i&#8217;m up is because a big loud mosquito was harassing me all night long.  i have about 20 bites all over my body so i just gave up and left my room.  sitting the pitch dark in the front lobby doing this getting bit by more mosquitos. haha.  but so glad to have come here.  i just crave to learn different cultures and people watching.  you just see the most interesting things and yesterday sitting in the car going &#8220;wow, OMG, wow, eeh?  OMG, wow!&#8221;  it was just a super amazing drive!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/photo-16.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/photo-16.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38840\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwe drove thru a few big cities and a lot of little villages.  stopped to see a rare chicken fight on tuesday.  entered the arena, my brother placed some bets on 3 fights, he won, and we left.  in hawaii, we&#8217;d all go to jail for being a part of a chicken fight, but in the philippines, it&#8217;s just part of an amazing culture.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/photo-26.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/photo-26.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38838\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthese guys take pride in their chickens.  the raise it like professional fighters.  and it&#8217;s a huge sport here.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/photo-34.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/photo-34.jpg\" alt=\"photo 3\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38839\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand like in any other sport, somebody has to lose.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/photo-44.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/photo-44.jpg\" alt=\"photo 4\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38841\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen we jump in the car and start driving again.  seen a motorcycle transporting pork.  8 big pigs squashed into that cage all going to the butcher for delicious fried pork.  so good!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/photo-52.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/photo-52.jpg\" alt=\"photo 5\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38842\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand last nights dinner local style.  we made come cool friends down here already and i can&#8217;t wait to go surfing with them.<br \/>\ngotta get going.  the security guard just walked in with a gun and asked me what i&#8217;m doing in filipino language.  i told him, &#8220;i don&#8217;t speak filipino.&#8221;  he looked at me, didn&#8217;t say anything, put his gun back in his holster, and walked away.<br \/>\ni&#8217;m going surfing.  have a nice day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good morning 3am. gosh, had a great time eating dinner and having a few drinks with the local surfers we met last night. well, more than a few drinks, more like 4 bottles of great lychee liquor. the style to drink here is take a shot and pass it around. after 15 shots, we thought [&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":["post-38837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirby-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38837","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=38837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}