{"id":74685,"date":"2016-12-27T05:15:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T20:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=74685"},"modified":"2016-12-27T05:15:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T20:15:45","slug":"the-perfect-present","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=74685","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Present!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-26-at-6.02.54-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-26-at-6-02-54-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74686\" \/><\/p>\n<p>went surfing early yesterday morning and had a great time!   the sun was golden, the water was warm, and the waves were fun.  this is how i spent my christmas!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-26-at-6.04.41-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-26-at-6-04-41-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74689\" \/><\/p>\n<p>teaching somebody to surf is pretty easy. teaching somebody to have confidence is hard.  it takes time but once you have somebody believing in themselves, the sky is the limit.  i will yell at you, i will laugh at you, and i will tease you.  i will do anything to make you believe in yourself.  right Asayama-san?  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-26-at-6.05.33-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-26-at-6-05-33-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74691\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and once you believe in yourself, your whole life will be a better place.  and you will also catch bigger waves!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_7792.jpg\" alt=\"img_7792\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74690\" \/><\/p>\n<p>our old transmission needed work so my brother took it out.  i asked him &#8220;how long will it take for them to fix it?&#8221;  he said 2 weeks.  what??  no way 2 weeks!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_7804.jpg\" alt=\"img_7804\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74688\" \/><\/p>\n<p>so instead, we bought a christmas present for ourselves.  a brand new top of the line transmission.  my brother put it back in and it was ready the next day.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_7925.jpg\" alt=\"img_7925\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-74687\" \/><\/p>\n<p>one day, a motorcycle pulled up to the side of me when i was at the stoplight.  he revved his motor and wanted to race me.  i looked at him and laughed.  back in high school, i would have raced him right there.  but now, i turn away, and drive down the street with a big smile on my face.  gosh, silence is so golden!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>went surfing early yesterday morning and had a great time! the sun was golden, the water was warm, and the waves were fun. this is how i spent my christmas! teaching somebody to surf is pretty easy. teaching somebody to have confidence is hard. it takes time but once you have somebody believing in themselves, [&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-74685","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\/74685","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=74685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}