{"id":67165,"date":"2016-05-06T05:36:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=67165"},"modified":"2016-05-06T05:36:04","modified_gmt":"2016-05-05T20:36:04","slug":"father-and-son-surfing-day-in-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=67165","title":{"rendered":"Father and Son Surfing Day in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-05-at-11.42.39-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-05 at 11.42.39 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67170\" \/><br \/>\nyesterday afternoon was so fun!  got to take a 6 year old kid named &#8220;Shuta-kun&#8221; surfing for his first time.  as we were paddling out, he was kind of nervous.  but, i started singing the &#8220;ABC&#8217;s Song&#8221; with him and he loosened up a little.  such a cutie.  imagine the two of us singing &#8220;A,B,C,D,E&#8230;&#8221; on the way out. haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-05-at-11.44.20-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-05 at 11.44.20 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67175\" \/><br \/>\nthen i tell him &#8220;paddle!&#8221;  he starts paddling his hardest and as we caught the wave, check out his expression.  this is pure stoke!!!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-05-at-11.44.38-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-05 at 11.44.38 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67167\" \/><br \/>\ni yell &#8220;stand up!&#8221;  Shuta-kun stands up and surfs the wave perfectly!!!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-05-at-11.44.27-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-05 at 11.44.27 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67166\" \/><br \/>\nwe rode it for so long and he was so stoked!!!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-05-at-11.42.31-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-05 at 11.42.31 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67171\" \/><br \/>\none thing about kids i love is their pureness.  you can&#8217;t fake a smile like this in the ocean.  it comes out naturally.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-05-at-11.45.27-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-05 at 11.45.27 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67173\" \/><br \/>\nthen Shuta-kun just being a kid and sticking out his tongue at the camera.  haha.  i still do this at my age so it&#8217;s ok.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-05-at-11.42.10-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-05 at 11.42.10 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67169\" \/><br \/>\nShuta-kun&#8217;s father surfed for the first time too!  a very athletic and energetic man.  i was surprised on his paddling power and his ability to catch and stand up on his very first wave of his life.  it was absolutely perfect!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-05-at-11.41.48-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-05 at 11.41.48 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67174\" \/><br \/>\nKuruhara-san caught another one, another one, and more, and more.  so much energy and so much stoke.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-05-at-11.41.19-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-05 at 11.41.19 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"359\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67172\" \/><br \/>\nsurfing brings out the pureness in adults too.  i usually take photos when nobody knows.  so this smile is simply describing the way Kuruhara-san feels at this very moment.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-05-at-11.45.35-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-05 at 11.45.35 AM\" width=\"640\" height=\"405\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-67176\" \/><br \/>\nthank you boys for the wonderful surf session!  5 minutes before i picked you guys up, it was raining and raining.  then 5 minutes after i dropped you guys off, it started raining and raining again.  we were so lucky to surf with Mr. Sun!!!  hope to surf with you guys again!  aloha. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yesterday afternoon was so fun! got to take a 6 year old kid named &#8220;Shuta-kun&#8221; surfing for his first time. as we were paddling out, he was kind of nervous. but, i started singing the &#8220;ABC&#8217;s Song&#8221; with him and he loosened up a little. such a cutie. imagine the two of us singing &#8220;A,B,C,D,E&#8230;&#8221; [&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-67165","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\/67165","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=67165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}