{"id":46064,"date":"2014-06-18T05:46:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-17T20:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=46064"},"modified":"2014-06-18T05:46:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T20:46:26","slug":"tomodachi-in-okinawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=46064","title":{"rendered":"BFF:  Tomodachi in Okinawa!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>my best friend Holli was supposed to visit me in japan back in 1992.  things didn&#8217;t work out then and after 22 years, she finally got the chance to visit japan!  i&#8217;m so stoked for her but bummed out i couldn&#8217;t spend some time there with her.  full okinawan and full on active in the okinawan community in hawaii.  i&#8217;m sure she&#8217;s enjoying herself in her root country and i&#8217;m pretty sure she feels at home.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-118.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-118.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46065\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nhere are some photos she just sent me.  one minute bar?  one minute man?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-217-e1402972520498.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-217-e1402972520498.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46066\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand yes, i&#8217;ve drunk over a thousand in my days in okinawa.  and i still want more.  orion beer is awesome!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-319-e1402972534318.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-319-e1402972534318.jpg\" alt=\"photo 3\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46067\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand the draft beers.  omg!  it reminds me of one time Holli and I had too much orions at a bar in hawaii.  a crazy ending to a crazy night i will never forget.  but nobody got hurt so it&#8217;s all good.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-414.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-414.jpg\" alt=\"photo 4\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46068\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nexperiencing the true okinawan culture.  cool!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-511-e1402972548348.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/photo-511-e1402972548348.jpg\" alt=\"photo 5\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46069\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni&#8217;m so stoked for Holli.  next time i hope to make it to okinawa together with her so i can share my precious friends.  and i know she will love them all.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/P6160020.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/P6160020.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46072\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsurfed with Nanami-san and her 2 kids this morning.  Liam and Gavin surfing in hawaii with mom was cool.  a super cool family from colorado that love the ocean.  we have many more sessions ahead and i&#8217;m looking forward to surfing and improving out skills.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/P6160021.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/P6160021.jpg\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-46073\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nvery active, very smart, and very good.  Nanami-san knows how to surf and have a good time.  thank you and see you guys again on wednesday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>my best friend Holli was supposed to visit me in japan back in 1992. things didn&#8217;t work out then and after 22 years, she finally got the chance to visit japan! i&#8217;m so stoked for her but bummed out i couldn&#8217;t spend some time there with her. full okinawan and full on active in the [&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-46064","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\/46064","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=46064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}