{"id":86326,"date":"2017-12-30T16:24:17","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T07:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=86326"},"modified":"2017-12-30T16:24:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-30T07:24:17","slug":"longboard-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=86326","title":{"rendered":"Longboard Challenge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-1.49.16-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"723\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86327\" \/><\/p>\n<p>took Kanai-san surfing early this morning.  she&#8217;s a long boarder so we went long boarding.  i know this girl is always up for the challenge so i asked her if she wanted to try something different.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-1.51.38-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86330\" \/><\/p>\n<p>a girl that challenges herself never turns down a challenge.  so i give her my shortboard and things got interesting.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-1.55.34-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"725\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86329\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kanai-san surfed it perfectly from her first wave.  it was the perfect fit!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-1.54.45-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"725\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86331\" \/><\/p>\n<p>bigger challenge, bigger smile.  simple.  and can&#8217;t go wrong with a rainbow in the back.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-1.52.25-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"822\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86328\" \/><\/p>\n<p>say good bye to long boarding because i don&#8217;t think this girl will ever longboard again.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0715.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>got a snack from Kanai-san so i came home and opened it up.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0716.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86335\" \/><\/p>\n<p>omg, i love chestnuts!  thank you so much.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-2.01.10-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"721\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>went surfing this afternoon, then again this evening.  surfed 3 rounds and spent 6 hours in the water.  don&#8217;t know how i had the energy to do turns this evening.  but hey, it felt wonderful!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Screen-Shot-2017-12-30-at-2.00.36-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"718\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86332\" \/><\/p>\n<p>everyday the sunset has been so different.  today&#8217;s was like a spotlight in the ocean.  so calm, and so beautiful.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0719.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>drove through Waikiki on the way home.  hundreds of people lining up for the golden moment.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0713.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>want to thank Shirato-san for the classic Canon camera present!  it came out the  year i was born so this is pretty old, just like me.  haha.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_0714.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1478\" height=\"999\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and thank you Yumi-chan for the drawing.  so cute!!!  miss you Okinawan girls!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>took Kanai-san surfing early this morning. she&#8217;s a long boarder so we went long boarding. i know this girl is always up for the challenge so i asked her if she wanted to try something different. a girl that challenges herself never turns down a challenge. so i give her my shortboard and things got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86326","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\/86326","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=86326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}