{"id":951,"date":"2008-09-22T14:49:11","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T05:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori3.sakura.ne.jp\/kirbyfukunaga\/2008\/09\/22\/shimpei-horiguchi-12-years-later\/"},"modified":"2008-09-22T14:49:11","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T05:49:11","slug":"shimpei-horiguchi-12-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=951","title":{"rendered":"Shimpei Horiguchi-  12 years later&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"files\/CIMG1509.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/CIMG1509.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\ni&#8217;ve known shimpei horiguchi since he was a kid.  this photo was taken 12 years ago at kaifu.  back then, he was like 14 years old or so.  mellow super country style kid that had a dream.  a dream to become a pro surfer.  not only now is shimpei a pro surfer, he&#8217;s one of the most respected big wave chargers in the world.  dreams come true, just ask shimpei.  hey, that&#8217;s shimpei on the right ok?  who&#8217;s that young guy on the left?  haha&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/20080909165031.jpeg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20080909165031.jpeg\" width=\"560\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nthis is the other week in okinawa.  12 years later and still surfing together.  surfing keeps people connected and this is a perfect example&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/20080909170215.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/20080909170215.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"363\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nthis was shimpei last year on an okinawan outer island reef break 2 page spread in surf1st.  big wave charger?  i think so&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"files\/Cover_2008-10.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cover_2008-10.jpg\" width=\"331\" height=\"420\" alt=\"\"><\/a><br \/>\nand this months cover boy for surf1st.  i&#8217;d have to say that shimpei&#8217;s the best most all around surfer in japan.  he can surf small waves, big waves, gigantic waves, and  he&#8217;s got the looks that can make a girl melt&#8230;.  now, shimpei had joined the go-naminori offical blog crew&#8230;.  a lot of girls been asking me about shimpei and now you can find out.  welcome to shimpei&#8217;s life&#8230;.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.go-naminori.com\/shimpeihoriguchi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">*** CLICK HERE FOR SHIMPEI BLOG ON GO-NAMINORI.COM&#8230;.<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.go-naminori.com\/interviews\/index11.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">**CLICK HERE FOR SHIMPEI HORIGUCHI INTERVIEW ON GO-NAMINORI.COM&#8230;.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve known shimpei horiguchi since he was a kid. this photo was taken 12 years ago at kaifu. back then, he was like 14 years old or so. mellow super country style kid that had a dream. a dream to become a pro surfer. not only now is shimpei a pro surfer, he&#8217;s one of [&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-951","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\/951","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=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}