{"id":89,"date":"2007-09-23T08:37:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T23:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2007\/09\/23\/philippines-national-champion\/"},"modified":"2007-09-23T08:37:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T23:37:28","slug":"philippines-national-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Philippines National Champion&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>good evening,  mabuhai from the philippines.  gosh, it&#8217;s like paradise here.  woke up this morning and the waves were small.  in fact, it&#8217;s been small here for the past 10 days.  some of the traveling surfers staying here for a while look pretty disappointed, you can just see it in their eyes.  wake up, check the waves, it&#8217;s flat, go back sleep, pray for tomorrow.  but it&#8217;s ok for us because we just go here but i know that feeling of waking up to flat waves for 2 weeks straight when i went to tonga.  i understand that the waves aren&#8217;t epic everyday here so i&#8217;ve prepared myself before i got here.  i just think like this, &#8220;if i score, i&#8217;m lucky&#8221;.  that&#8217;s the cool thing about trips because it&#8217;s not only about the waves, it&#8217;s about the people you meet, and the experiences you have.  i&#8217;m so fortunate to come to the philippines to shoot the contest for a japanese magazine.  now i get to show people images of this beautiful country through my eyes.  i can&#8217;t post any photos taken off my canon camera.  you have to wait until one of the upcoming Surfing World magazine.  but i snapped some off my small dig. camera so check these out.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG2882.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nthis is the stage for the contest.  when the contest is on, there will be thousands of people here.  i actually got scared the last time because i thought the stage was going to break.  it&#8217;s parked like sardines&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG2883.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nyes, this is where tokura-san, hayato, and i stay.  see that coconuts?  i ate one this afternoon and it was the sweetest coconuts i&#8217;ve ever eaten&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG2884.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\nohayo gozaimasu.  i took this photo lying down in my queen size bed.  cloud 9 is right between the coconut trees.  i jumped in for a morning session.  it was only knee high but i was out there all by myself so it was so relaxing.  got a couple and went in.  the water is so warm and crystal clear&#8230;.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG2885.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\ncheck out this poster.  it&#8217;s a national beer drinking contest sponsored by san miguel.  the winner gets 500,000 pesos or $11,000 usd.  shit, i&#8217;m going to get my entry in.  so now you guys know the real reason i came here.  yes, to become the filipino national beer drinking champion.  haha[:?????????:][:?????????:][:?????????:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>good evening, mabuhai from the philippines. gosh, it&#8217;s like paradise here. woke up this morning and the waves were small. in fact, it&#8217;s been small here for the past 10 days. some of the traveling surfers staying here for a while look pretty disappointed, you can just see it in their eyes. wake up, check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-go-naminori"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","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=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}