{"id":45483,"date":"2022-06-17T08:03:59","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/17\/i-want-to-do-it-again-japans-octogenarian-sailor-on-the-joy-of-crossing-the-pacific-solo"},"modified":"2022-06-17T08:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T23:03:59","slug":"i-want-to-do-it-again-japans-octogenarian-sailor-on-the-joy-of-crossing-the-pacific-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45483","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I want to do it again\u2019: Japan\u2019s octogenarian sailor on the joy of crossing the Pacific solo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This month Kenichi Horie, 83, became the oldest person to cross the world\u2019s largest ocean alone. He reflects on his passion and a desire to do it again<\/p>\n<p>Kenichi Horie has completed so many epic voyages across the world\u2019s oceans that he initially struggles to remember the exact number.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt must be about 10,\u201d he tells the Guardian in an interview at his home port, Shin Nishinomiya yacht harbour, near the western Japanese city of Kobe.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/17\/i-want-to-do-it-again-japans-octogenarian-sailor-on-the-joy-of-crossing-the-pacific-solo\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This month Kenichi Horie, 83, became the oldest person to cross the world\u2019s largest ocean alone. He reflects on his passion and a desire to do it againKenichi Horie has completed so many epic voyages across the world\u2019s oceans that he initially struggle&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,1109,1090,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-sailing","category-water-transport","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45484,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45483\/revisions\/45484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}