{"id":51697,"date":"2014-12-22T05:21:24","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=51697"},"modified":"2014-12-22T05:21:24","modified_gmt":"2014-12-21T20:21:24","slug":"banzai-upsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=51697","title":{"rendered":"Banzai Upsets!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0957-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0957-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0957 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51701\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nstoked to see some major upsets at the pipe masters.  i always cheer for the underdog because i like to see them so happy.  yes, Kelly Slater is said to be unbeatable, but don&#8217;t tell that to Alejo Muniz after catching this winning wave in the last minute of the heat.  the champion killer.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0959-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0959-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0959 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-51698\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nyeah, i bet Alejo couldn&#8217;t believe either he beat the 11x world champion.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0965-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0965-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0965 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51699\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nJohn John was another favorite to win the event.  but it wasn&#8217;t his day.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0984-copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/IMG_0984-copy.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0984 copy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51700\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nnew world champion Gabriel Mendina in fine form.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-shot-2014-12-19-at-3.30.32-PM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-shot-2014-12-19-at-3.30.32-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-12-19 at 3.30.32 PM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51703\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nnow getting back to my evening surf sessions.  empty lineups, no hassling, no noise, blue\/red\/gold\/pink\/orange\/yellow skies as the day comes to an end.  there is no where else in the world i would want to be.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-shot-2014-12-19-at-3.29.33-PM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Screen-shot-2014-12-19-at-3.29.33-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen shot 2014-12-19 at 3.29.33 PM\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-51702\" \/><\/a><br \/>\njust like heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stoked to see some major upsets at the pipe masters. i always cheer for the underdog because i like to see them so happy. yes, Kelly Slater is said to be unbeatable, but don&#8217;t tell that to Alejo Muniz after catching this winning wave in the last minute of the heat. the champion killer. yeah, [&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-51697","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\/51697","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=51697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}