{"id":74857,"date":"2017-01-01T14:11:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T05:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=74857"},"modified":"2017-01-01T14:11:21","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T05:11:21","slug":"legends-fall-and-surfers-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=74857","title":{"rendered":"Legends Fall and Surfers Rise!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/c.jpg\" alt=\"c\" width=\"630\" height=\"420\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74863\" \/><\/p>\n<p>omg, did you see the UFC fight last night?  so sad to watch the legend Ronda Rousey get beaten up so fast and so bad.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/web1_4702343-871b66bc2ad64301aa0a652cb96cc765.jpg\" alt=\"web1_4702343-871b66bc2ad64301aa0a652cb96cc765\" width=\"640\" height=\"433\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74866\" \/><\/p>\n<p>it&#8217;s not that she&#8217;s getting worst, it&#8217;s that everybody else is getting better.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/web1_4702343-adbf04f073c149c0863792b444afdb4b.jpg\" alt=\"web1_4702343-adbf04f073c149c0863792b444afdb4b\" width=\"640\" height=\"501\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74860\" \/><\/p>\n<p>after Ronda&#8217;s previous loss to Holm, she said she considered suicide.  and being that this loss is 5x more embarrassing, i&#8217;m sure a lot of her loved ones are worried.  the champion Amanda Nunes got paid $200,000 for this fight, Ronda got paid $3,000,000.  i don&#8217;t know how anyone can be so sad after winning all that money.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8085.jpg\" alt=\"img_8085\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74862\" \/><\/p>\n<p>spent the last day of 2016 with the Kaneko-san family.  we started off this morning at Haleiwa.  the waves were perfect for all of us!  so lucky!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8088.jpg\" alt=\"img_8088\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74865\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then we went for some hulihuli chicken!  if i go to the north shore on the weekend, i eat here for sure.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8090.jpg\" alt=\"img_8090\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74868\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this time, we ate at the bus stop.  haha.  thank you Kaneko-san, Masaru-san, Ray-kun, Hiyo-kun, and Manami-chan.  i had a great time with you guys!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8091.jpg\" alt=\"img_8091\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74864\" \/><\/p>\n<p>omg, this is the best chicken plate in the world!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8096.jpg\" alt=\"img_8096\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74861\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then we went to the bakery to get snow puffs.  Ray-kun learning how to speak english so he ordered by himself.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8099.jpg\" alt=\"img_8099\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74869\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then Hiyo-kun learning how to speak english too.  this is the same way i learned how to speak japanese.  just go for it!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-01-01-at-11.44.23-AM.jpg\" alt=\"screen-shot-2017-01-01-at-11-44-23-am\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74867\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then we went to surf laniakea after.  the waves were 3x bigger than haleiwa.  so stoked to see Ray-kun catch the wave of the day!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8102.jpg\" alt=\"img_8102\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74858\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then after all the nerves, sleeping on the way home is the best feeling in the world.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/IMG_8108.jpg\" alt=\"img_8108\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"align none size-full wp-image-74859\" \/><\/p>\n<p>as for me, driving home after work on the last day of 2016 made me feel so content.  i was looking at the rainbow and saying to myself &#8220;life is so good!  can&#8217;t wait for 2017!&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>omg, did you see the UFC fight last night? so sad to watch the legend Ronda Rousey get beaten up so fast and so bad. it&#8217;s not that she&#8217;s getting worst, it&#8217;s that everybody else is getting better. after Ronda&#8217;s previous loss to Holm, she said she considered suicide. and being that this loss is [&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-74857","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\/74857","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=74857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}