{"id":40149,"date":"2013-11-18T05:23:05","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T20:23:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=40149"},"modified":"2013-11-18T05:23:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T20:23:05","slug":"rob-machado-menchies-kaori-sunset-surfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=40149","title":{"rendered":"Rob Machado, Menchies, Kaori, Sunset Surfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_10431.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_10431.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1043\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40152\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni seen Rob Machado yesterday at the beach and because Furuya-san is a fan of his, i asked him if he could take a photo.  i&#8217;ve known Rob for 23 years ever since i met him at the world contest in japan.  he&#8217;s always been really nice to me and always takes the time out to say hi and chat.  yesterday i told him that it was such a cool thing for him to go to sendai and do that great film about the tree house for kids.  i asked him what he thought about the progress in tohoku and he said &#8220;some places good, others still the same.&#8221;  if there is anybody that could totally relate to him, that would be me.  he started to share his past trip to sendai to me and i could see in his face he was getting emotional.  we couldn&#8217;t talk for too long but i&#8217;m sure the next time i see him, we will surely catch up on the things he experienced.  Rob Machado is a very inspirational surfer and i&#8217;m so happy that he went to tohoku so he could spread the word to the rest of the world.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1044.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_1044.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1044\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40153\" \/><\/a><br \/>\non the way back to bowls for our afternoon session, Furuya-san and i stopped by Menchies at Ward.  it happened to be the 5th year anniversary so they had a $5 all you can fit in your bowl special.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_10461.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_10461.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1046\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-40150\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis was mine.  it was so good!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_10471.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_10471.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1047\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40151\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand this was Furuya-san&#8217;s.  can you believe we ate it all?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_10491.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/IMG_10491.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1049\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40154\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen i get out of the water for round 2 at bowls.  i bump into Mr. and Mrs. Destiny!  somebody should write a love novel about this lovely couple.  nice to see you again Kaori-chan and Ryouta!  keep the dream alive!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/GOPR0510.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/GOPR0510.jpg\" alt=\"DCIM100GOPRO\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40155\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen round 3 right before dark session.  an awesome group with big hearts.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/GOPR0540.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/GOPR0540.jpg\" alt=\"DCIM100GOPRO\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-40156\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni got Matsu taking off on his last wave.  it felt so good riding the waves in the pink clouds!<br \/>\nit was another long day and today will be one too.  i&#8217;m trying to get a flight out of hawaii on tuesday.  but tuesday is tuesday and today is today.  i&#8217;m taking things as they come and for now, the waves are here, my friends are here, and i am here.  i&#8217;ve been so busy this past year that i don&#8217;t even know how i keep up with myself.  a part of me is telling me to slow down, and another part is telling me to go faster!!!  gotta go!  haha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i seen Rob Machado yesterday at the beach and because Furuya-san is a fan of his, i asked him if he could take a photo. i&#8217;ve known Rob for 23 years ever since i met him at the world contest in japan. he&#8217;s always been really nice to me and always takes the time out [&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-40149","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\/40149","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=40149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}