{"id":90560,"date":"2018-05-16T07:36:56","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T22:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=90560"},"modified":"2018-05-16T07:36:56","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T22:36:56","slug":"precious-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=90560","title":{"rendered":"Precious Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>when i first came to Japan 28 years ago almost to this day, i fell in love with the kind people and the deep culture.  everything fascinated me then, and everything still fascinates me now.  i fell in love with a county where some of my deepest roots came from.  my great great Grandparents brought this culture back to Hawaii, and i was born right into it. now i get to live in the real thing.  i get to taste the best food, i get to meet some best friends, and get to live out the best experiences.  for that, i&#8217;m very thankful&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_4745.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90561\" \/><\/p>\n<p>just the sight of kimonos makes me so happy.  the first thing that comes to my mind is my Grandma Osaki.  i was very young when she passed away so i don&#8217;t remember a lot about her.  but one thing i remember so well is her playing the Koto in her kimono at home.  strumming the song &#8220;sakura&#8221; so gracefully as it still plays in my mind till this day&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/IMG_4750.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90562\" \/><\/p>\n<p>people come from all over Japan to this temple to make wishes.  i have a wish too.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;please keep healthy, please keep happy, and please enjoy each precious breath of your life.  never take anything for granted.  love your family, love your friends, and love your life&#8230;&#8221;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when i first came to Japan 28 years ago almost to this day, i fell in love with the kind people and the deep culture. everything fascinated me then, and everything still fascinates me now. i fell in love with a county where some of my deepest roots came from. my great great Grandparents brought [&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-90560","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\/90560","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=90560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}