{"id":7534,"date":"2011-07-08T14:40:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T05:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=7534"},"modified":"2011-07-08T14:40:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-08T05:40:33","slug":"nsa-3-fire-reef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=7534","title":{"rendered":"NSA 3 &#038; FIRE REEF!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/aanssalicnes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/aanssalicnes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"321\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7535\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ndid you know that in japan you need a license to become an amateur surfer?  well, i took mine and luckily passed on the first try.  i had to take off, bottom turn, and pull out.  i drove 3 hours up north, spent $200, and caught one wave.  every country has it&#8217;s system and because i&#8217;m a foreigner, i can&#8217;t complain.  if you want to become an amateur surfer in hawaii, all you have to do is wake up one morning, and say &#8220;hey, i&#8217;m an amateur surfer from today.&#8221;  and i ain&#8217;t joking.<br \/>\nanyway, this license card is a great memory for me.  and i also needed it to become a professional JPSA surfer the following year.  i&#8217;ll tell you how that happened later.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P4190586.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/P4190586.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7536\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nwhat is fire reef?  well, we don&#8217;t have it in hawaii so most people don&#8217;t know what it is.  fire reef is in some parts of the world.  for example, indonesia.  i take off, i fall, my foot hits the reef very lightly, i get a scratch, my foot is on fire, and doesn&#8217;t heal for 3 months.  the reef in some parts of the world is so alive that tiny organisms live in you for a long time.  i still have a big scar from this little scratch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>did you know that in japan you need a license to become an amateur surfer? well, i took mine and luckily passed on the first try. i had to take off, bottom turn, and pull out. i drove 3 hours up north, spent $200, and caught one wave. every country has it&#8217;s system and because [&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":[51,379,44,190,380],"class_list":{"0":"post-7534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs","7":"tag-contest","8":"tag-fire-reef","9":"tag-japan","10":"tag-jpsa","11":"tag-nsa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534","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=7534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}