{"id":93860,"date":"2018-08-29T14:19:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T05:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=93860"},"modified":"2018-08-29T14:19:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T05:19:46","slug":"molokai-popper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=93860","title":{"rendered":"Molokai Popper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-29-at-1.18.48-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93864\" \/><br \/>\nsuper lucky to surf Rockpiles with nobody out!  Tani-san and i had it to ourselves this morning for 2 hours!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-29-at-1.20.19-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93862\" \/><br \/>\nyeah, i&#8217;d be smiling too.  haha.  waves came up so we just took turns riding wave after wave.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-29-at-1.20.33-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"723\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93866\" \/><br \/>\nand turn after turn&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-29-at-1.18.05-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"722\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93867\" \/><br \/>\nafter 3 days of surfing, Tani-san&#8217;s level went way up.  so smooth and so controlled.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-29-at-1.18.33-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"719\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93865\" \/><br \/>\ncutback after cutback, this is the way to surf!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-29-at-1.20.53-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"722\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93863\" \/><br \/>\nhot pho for lunch.  thank you Tani-san for the last 3 lucky surf sessions!  hope to surf with you in Shikoku someday!!!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Screen-Shot-2018-08-29-at-1.24.53-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"722\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93861\" \/><br \/>\nthen picked up the girls for the afternoon session.  more good waves, and amazing long rides&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7983.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93868\" \/><br \/>\nwhenever i go traveling, i always buy something.  it&#8217;s just a way of supporting their economy, and it&#8217;s just a way of remembering that specific trip.  so when i walked into a small shop in Molokai, this fisherman was selling fishing lures he custom made.  this one was made out of koa wood and was so beautiful.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_7984.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-93869\" \/><br \/>\nit&#8217;s called a popper and when i reel in my big Ulua with it, i will email Natog the photo.  but for now, i keep it on my desk because it makes me want to go back there soon&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>super lucky to surf Rockpiles with nobody out! Tani-san and i had it to ourselves this morning for 2 hours! yeah, i&#8217;d be smiling too. haha. waves came up so we just took turns riding wave after wave. and turn after turn&#8230; after 3 days of surfing, Tani-san&#8217;s level went way up. so smooth and [&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":[1422,1423,1424,1425],"class_list":["post-93860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirby-blogs","tag-fishing-lures","tag-koa-lures","tag-molokai-fishing","tag-natog-lures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93860","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=93860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}