{"id":2275,"date":"2012-06-20T20:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T00:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=2275"},"modified":"2024-12-03T16:58:05","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T21:58:05","slug":"2275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/?p=2275","title":{"rendered":"Me and the Duke at the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Kayla Shumate, age 10, traveling with grandmother, posting from Honolulu, Hawaii<\/em> \u2013G mom and I went to the beach today. It was the first day of summer and\u00a0a bright sunny day. When I got there I was so excited to play. When we found the spot we were going to stay I had to put my sunscreen on and take my bucket out of my pack. Then I went out to the wet sand and started to push the sand forward. I started to make a wall with the sand to block the big warm water waves from hitting my spot. When I was making my big castle there were children playing in the water all over the place. There were also surfers that were surfing in the big waves passing by. I finished the big wall and made my castle inside. When I was making my castle G mom came up and asked \u201cWhat is the name of this castle?\u201d I thought for a little bit and said King Hut. That was the first name that popped in my head. Then G mom said about 10 more minutes because I have been out for 1 hour. Then I washed myself at the shower. I got my towel and dried myself and then G mom and I saw a statue that was near where I played. It was the Duke statue!\u00a0 <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Let me tell you about Duke. He was born in August 24 1890. He was raised in Waikiki, Hawaii. He was a full Hawaiian. The best part is he was an Olympic champion. He was the world\u2019s fastest swimmer. Between 1912 and 1932 Duke earned 3 gold metals, 2 silver metals and a bronze medal in four Olympic Games. He was known as father of international surfing. He showed surfing to the eastern seaboard of America, Europe, and Australia. He was a hero when he saved 8 lives with his surfboard when a ship turned over. On the statue it says he has honored his name, he has honored his race, he has honored his state, and he has honored us all.<\/p>\n

Statue of Duke Paoa Kahanamoku (1890-1968)\u00a0is in Kuhio Beach Park, Waikiki Beach.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kayla Shumate, age 10, traveling with grandmother, posting from Honolulu, Hawaii \u2013G mom and I went to the beach today. It was the first day of summer and\u00a0a bright sunny day. When I got there I was so excited to play. When we found the spot we were going to stay I had to put […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4586,669],"tags":[703,1444,676,3066,1449,1450,1447,1446,1445,1448,771],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2278,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions\/2278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalcitiesusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}