{"id":86946,"date":"2018-01-19T06:08:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T21:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=86946"},"modified":"2018-01-19T06:08:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-18T21:08:01","slug":"2018-new-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=86946","title":{"rendered":"2018 New Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1303-e1516301668496.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86948\" \/><\/p>\n<p>yesterday, we paddled out at dark and was the first ones in the ocean.  the 5 of us pretty much caught every single wave that came through.  it was like a dream morning session with the ocean to ourselves.  came in at 8:15, dropped off the Okinawa girls and boys, then went home to grab my backpack.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1304-e1516301682547.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86956\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then at 10:30am, i was on an international flight.  don&#8217;t ask me how i made it, but somehow i managed to.  sat back, watched a movie, and enjoyed my dessert.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1305.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86947\" \/><\/p>\n<p>arrived in Japan at 4pm, and couldn&#8217;t believe the sun was setting already?  really?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1306.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86950\" \/><\/p>\n<p>there&#8217;s a deadly flu going around so i have to protect myself.  this is the best way.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1316.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86951\" \/><\/p>\n<p>arrived in Tokyo at 5:30pm.  Inaida-san was finishing up his massage, then Katsura-san went to work on my tired body.  in just 5 minutes, i was feeling 10 years younger.  oh, it hurts so good!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1319.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86954\" \/><\/p>\n<p>at 6pm, we were sitting front row at the best sushi bar in the world.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1337.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86953\" \/><\/p>\n<p>the o-toro or fatty tuna is my favorite.  when i put this in my mouth, it made my long journey worth every minute.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1341.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86955\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and always having lots of laughs with Inaida-san and Yuki-san.  it&#8217;s amazing how we have to much to talk about.  there&#8217;s never a dull moment&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1345.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86952\" \/><\/p>\n<p>came back home and started the fire.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/IMG_1347.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-86949\" \/><\/p>\n<p>sipped on fine whisky, had a fine talk, and ended a fine day.  thank you Inaida-san for the fine Memories!  <\/p>\n<p>as for the start of 2018, it&#8217;s going right on track.  work hard, and play harder is still my motto.  life is short so may as well enjoy it while i can.  the rest of this year will be kind of like this, making more Memories.  anyway, i woke up at 2:30am but so what?  i&#8217;m enjoying this jet lag to the fullest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>yesterday, we paddled out at dark and was the first ones in the ocean. the 5 of us pretty much caught every single wave that came through. it was like a dream morning session with the ocean to ourselves. came in at 8:15, dropped off the Okinawa girls and boys, then went home to grab [&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-86946","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\/86946","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=86946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}