{"id":65690,"date":"2016-03-20T14:45:12","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T05:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=65690"},"modified":"2016-03-20T14:45:12","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T05:45:12","slug":"happy-birthday-young-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=65690","title":{"rendered":"Happy Birthday Young Man!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>first of all, i&#8217;d like to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Asayama-san!!!  today&#8217;s his 67th birthday and we had a full day of fun!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-20-at-12.01.00-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-20 at 12.01.00 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65702\" \/><br \/>\ni&#8217;m teaching Asayama-san how to slow down.  just take it easy and live the hawaiian lifestyle.  this is his first wave on his 67th birthday and he was so stoked!  i could hear him yelling when he was taking the drop.  paddling back out and saying &#8220;this is so fun!&#8221;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-20-at-12.01.45-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-20 at 12.01.45 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"377\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65691\" \/><br \/>\nAsayama-san only gets to surf once a week in japan so this trip is pretty different for him.  surfing everyday for 14 days will make you so confident, strong, and very happy.  so far, so good!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_7570.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7570\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65696\" \/><br \/>\ngosh, we are totally comfortable with each other already.  making jokes, laughing, and just having a great time.  Asayama-san Would Go!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_7577.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7577\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65695\" \/><br \/>\nsurfing everyday, you meet the coolest people.  they become your friends, they become your surf mates, and they become close to you.  we were all having a fun time in the water and decided to all eat lunch together.  so instead of the 2 of us, there was the six of us.  the more, the merrier!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_7584-e1458444470671.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7584\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65697\" \/><br \/>\nthis is by far the biggest and cheapest steak in hawaii.  Asayama-san loves steak and wanted to try here.  can you believe he ate the whole thing?  omg!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_7572-e1458444415969.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7572\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65694\" \/><br \/>\nAoi-kun ate the whole thing too.  and so did his mom Chifumi-san.  unbelievable!  in fact, we all finished it all!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_7620.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7620\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65693\" \/><br \/>\nthen it was time to say our bye bye&#8217;s.  but the ocean looked way too inviting so we went out for a ride.  went out to the deep blue sea, seen a whale jumping, snorkeled, and had an amazing time.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_7588.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7588\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65698\" \/><br \/>\nAsayama-san checks my blog a lot so he knows who Aoi-kun is.  now, he doesn&#8217;t know the digital Aoi-kun, he knows the real Aoi-kun.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_7610.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7610\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65700\" \/><br \/>\ni just love to teach the kids new things.  i don&#8217;t ask &#8220;do you want to drive?&#8221;  i just say &#8220;hey, you drive.&#8221;  learning by experience.  that&#8217;s the best way.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_7621.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7621\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65699\" \/><br \/>\nmaybe one day when i get too old and can&#8217;t take out Mayuki by myself, one of the kids can take me out.  that would be a dream to me.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Screen-Shot-2016-03-20-at-12.08.28-PM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-03-20 at 12.08.28 PM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-65692\" \/><br \/>\nheaded to my secret turtle spot.  and yes, they were all home.  one even came up to with Asayama-san a happy birthday!  he was so surprised!  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_7636.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_7636\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-65701\" \/><br \/>\nwhen we were driving home, Asayama-san told me &#8220;today was an amazing birthday.&#8221;  catching good waves, making friends, eating good food, free diving, and enjoying nature.  yes, it was an amazing day for all of us!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>first of all, i&#8217;d like to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Asayama-san!!! today&#8217;s his 67th birthday and we had a full day of fun! i&#8217;m teaching Asayama-san how to slow down. just take it easy and live the hawaiian lifestyle. this is his first wave on his 67th birthday and he was so stoked! i could [&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-65690","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\/65690","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=65690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}