{"id":57980,"date":"2015-07-20T07:40:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-19T22:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=57980"},"modified":"2015-07-20T07:40:04","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T22:40:04","slug":"lucky-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=57980","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>so i get a text from Bobby late last night.  &#8220;MICK GOT ATTACKED!!&#8221;  i was dazed?  attacked?  what?  by someone?  so i turn on the live streaming web for the contest in south africa and watch the action.  freaking unbelievable!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.16.41-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.16.41-AM-640x351.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-07-20 at 6.16.41 AM\" class=\"align none size-medium wp-image-57985\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nto see someone you know and see surfing every year on the north shore, it kind of hits harder than usual.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.16.47-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.16.47-AM-640x307.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-07-20 at 6.16.47 AM\" class=\"align none size-medium wp-image-57981\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthe shark pretty much attacked him.  luckily Mick&#8217;s in one piece and it&#8217;s unbelievable that he survived it without a scratch.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.17.41-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.17.41-AM-640x314.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-07-20 at 6.17.41 AM\" class=\"align none size-medium wp-image-57982\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwhat do you do after you look death in the eyes?  thank god.  i&#8217;m sure Mick knows how lucky he is.  i&#8217;m just not sure if he will ever surf Jeffrey&#8217;s Bay ever again.  i surely wont.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/84364425_wsl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/84364425_wsl.jpg\" alt=\"_84364425_wsl\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-57983\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nand i give his competitor Julian Wilson credit for paddling over to Mick to try to help him.  that&#8217;s pretty dam brave of him to do that.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.19.02-AM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-20-at-6.19.02-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-07-20 at 6.19.02 AM\" class=\"align none size-medium wp-image-57984\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthey ended up canceling the contest and splitting the prize money and points between Mick and Julian.  good call.<br \/>\n[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jtzu9Vgb_zE[\/youtube]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>so i get a text from Bobby late last night. &#8220;MICK GOT ATTACKED!!&#8221; i was dazed? attacked? what? by someone? so i turn on the live streaming web for the contest in south africa and watch the action. freaking unbelievable! to see someone you know and see surfing every year on the north shore, it [&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-57980","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\/57980","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=57980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}