{"id":55825,"date":"2015-05-09T05:35:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T20:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=55825"},"modified":"2015-05-09T05:35:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T20:35:35","slug":"young-surfer-the-smile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=55825","title":{"rendered":"Young Surfer:  The Smile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-10.59.05-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-10.59.05-AM-640x359.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-08 at 10.59.05 AM\" class=\"align none size-medium wp-image-55833\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ngosh, i just love taking kids surfing for the first time in their life.  i know that the first time is the most important because they will either love it, or hate it.  and i&#8217;ll do anything i can to make them love it.  the first initial take off is classic because a little kids face don&#8217;t lie.  look how nervous 12 year old Renta-kun is when he starts to ride his first ever wave.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-10.59.13-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-10.59.13-AM-640x362.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-08 at 10.59.13 AM\" class=\"align none size-medium wp-image-55834\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen once he gets going, the feeling is just too hard to explain.  much better than any ride at disneyland.  look at his face.  so stoked!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-10.59.45-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-10.59.45-AM-640x362.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-08 at 10.59.45 AM\" class=\"align none size-medium wp-image-55826\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen as he&#8217;s about to stand up on his own, i&#8217;m sure he is thinking to himself &#8220;wow, this is fun!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-11.00.50-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-11.00.50-AM-640x362.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-08 at 11.00.50 AM\" class=\"align none size-medium wp-image-55829\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nRenta-kun&#8217;s first surf and did it very well.  after i took him in, he was waiting on the beach for me and said he wanted to surf again.  two sessions for this cool kid!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-11.01.51-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-11.01.51-AM-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-08 at 11.01.51 AM\" class=\"align none size-medium wp-image-55835\" \/><\/a><br \/>\na smile that i love to see.  good job Renta-kun!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-11.02.52-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-11.02.52-AM-640x362.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-08 at 11.02.52 AM\" class=\"align none size-medium wp-image-55827\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen it was Saori-san&#8217;s turn.  second time surfing and rode it perfectly.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-11.07.48-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-11.07.48-AM-640x359.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-08 at 11.07.48 AM\" class=\"align none size-medium wp-image-55830\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthen Oshima-san wanted to surf a big wave so i took him to the outside.  some sets were head high but he wanted to try.  so stoked watching him ride some super clean big waves.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-11.08.40-AM.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Screen-Shot-2015-05-08-at-11.08.40-AM-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-05-08 at 11.08.40 AM\" class=\"align none size-medium wp-image-55831\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsuch a funny and cool guy.  thank you Oshima-san.  glad you are hooked on surfing!  see you again next week for some big waves again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gosh, i just love taking kids surfing for the first time in their life. i know that the first time is the most important because they will either love it, or hate it. and i&#8217;ll do anything i can to make them love it. the first initial take off is classic because a little kids [&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-55825","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\/55825","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=55825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}