{"id":96447,"date":"2018-11-29T05:42:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=96447"},"modified":"2018-11-29T05:42:40","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:42:40","slug":"time-stands-still","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=96447","title":{"rendered":"Time Stands Still"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0113.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1188\" height=\"890\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96453\" \/><br \/>\ni woke up at 5:30am and didn&#8217;t want to miss the sunrise.  so i jump off the boat into 5&#8242; muddy river water.  rinse off with the outdoor shower and wake everybody up.  by 6am, i was wide awake and ready for a very long day ahead.  in Molokai, days go by really slow as time stands still&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/cache_Messagep97299.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96451\" \/><br \/>\nthen back to the beach front house for brunch before riding the 50&#8242; swells home.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0111.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1188\" height=\"890\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96448\" \/><br \/>\ni can sit for hours listing to my cousins stories and knowledge.  Dino doesn&#8217;t need Google to find answers about the ocean or Molokai.  he knows everything and it&#8217;s all from personal experience.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0106.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1188\" height=\"890\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96449\" \/><br \/>\na true Hawaiian with the most &#8220;aloha&#8221; you will ever find in a person.  and the cool thing is Dino embraces every single person i take to Molokai like his own family member.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0108.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1188\" height=\"890\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96452\" \/><br \/>\nit was so funny because before we eat, we usually say &#8220;itadakimasu.&#8221;  but this time, we were saying &#8220;this might be our last meal of our life.&#8221;  everybody was worried about the huge waves we were about to face crossing the channel but i kept on saying &#8220;it&#8217;s going to be a great experience.&#8221;  haha&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1188\" height=\"890\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96450\" \/><br \/>\nmedium rare is the best way to eat a Hawaiian steak!  just like this&#8230;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_0110.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1188\" height=\"890\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96454\" \/><br \/>\nIsaiah told me before we left &#8220;Uncle, i trust you.&#8221;  Takahashi-san told me before we left &#8220;Kirby, you&#8217;re crazy.&#8221;  and Dino told me before we left &#8220;Kirby, be safe.&#8221;  and i told myself before we left &#8220;Kirby, keep calm and enjoy the ride.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>this morning i went to the yacht club to wash Mayuki.  i told a boater friend that we crossed the channel yesterday back to Oahu.  he looked at me and said &#8220;Kirby, you&#8217;re fucken crazy!&#8221; and he said &#8220;i bet you were the only boat in the channel right?&#8221;  i said &#8220;yes.&#8221;  then he said &#8220;because nobody else in Hawaii is more crazy than you!&#8221;  i was actually happy to hear that.  haha&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p>oh, in no way i&#8217;m trying to disrespect the ocean.  in fact, i trust the ocean.  i trust my instinct and felt like we could make it.  some people believe in me, some don&#8217;t.  we charged it, and we learned from it.  one of the big factors of challenging myself is i trust Mayuki 100%.  she is the best in the world.  i take care of her and she takes care of me.  and having Isaiah with me was another factor.  Isaiah&#8217;s a waterman and knows how to save lives.  so yeah, i had a lot of confidence that we would make it back&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>photos by Takahashi-san&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i woke up at 5:30am and didn&#8217;t want to miss the sunrise. so i jump off the boat into 5&#8242; muddy river water. rinse off with the outdoor shower and wake everybody up. by 6am, i was wide awake and ready for a very long day ahead. in Molokai, days go by really slow as [&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-96447","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\/96447","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=96447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}