{"id":45525,"date":"2014-05-28T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T04:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=45525"},"modified":"2014-05-28T13:30:45","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T04:30:45","slug":"lantern-floating-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=45525","title":{"rendered":"Lantern Floating Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOMG, welcome back summer! the blue sky, the warm water, and the cool trade winds. it was a perfect day! so happy to be back to normal here in hawaii and as for the weather for the past 10 days? i don’t know what that was!!! but for the next 10 days, it will be looking super good for now!
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\ni was down at ala moana park yesteday watching everybody starting to line up for the floating lantern ceremony. it got too crowded so i came home and watched it on tv. omg, i couldn’t believe how many people were down there!
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\ni’m not a religious kind of guy so watching this ceremony on tv was a learning experience. each lantern was a symbol of a loved one that passed away. it was kind of sad watching the people light the candle and setting the lantern on the water.
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\nthis woman is the top of the top in buddhism. her name is Her Holiness Shinso Ito.
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\nand yes, ala moana beach park looked amazing once the sun set. such a beautiful japanese ceremony bringing people from all walks of life together. at each and every memorial day, i always remember my Grandpa and Grandma Osaki, and my Grandma Fukunaga. they are the reason i breathe the air do today. and i am very thankful for that. maybe next year i’ll place a lantern in their memory. and if i do, i know i will cry. it’s sad even thinking about it.
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\nwatching someone play the Koto brings me chicken skin. i can still clearly hear the songs my grandma use to play for us when i was a little kid. Sa—Ku—Ra—
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\nwell, the waves were awesome! uncrowded surf all day long. had fun surfing with Akudo-san this morning, then had fun surfing with Eriko-san this afternoon. more surfing all day every day all week. going to be a busy week, but a very happy one too. see you in the water. goodnight for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OMG, welcome back summer! the blue sky, the warm water, and the cool trade winds. it was a perfect day! so happy to be back to normal here in hawaii and as for the weather for the past 10 days? i don’t know what that was!!! but for the next 10 days, it will be […]<\/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":[1127,1128,1129,1130,1131],"class_list":{"0":"post-45525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs","7":"tag-hawaii-lantern-ceremony","8":"tag-her-holiness-shinso-ito","9":"tag-lantern-ceremony","10":"tag-lantern-floating-ceremony-hawaii","11":"tag-shinso-ito"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45525","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=45525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}