{"id":773,"date":"2015-05-11T13:32:48","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T13:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/?p=773"},"modified":"2025-01-19T01:28:31","modified_gmt":"2025-01-19T01:28:31","slug":"ghost-rider-travels-on-the-healing-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/?p=773","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend in my hotel in El Paso Illinois, I finished reading Neil Peart&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Ghost-Rider-Travels-Healing-Road\/dp\/1550225480\/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8\">Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road<\/a>. I should make it clear up front that I am not a huge Rush fan. I like Rush just fine, but am not an avid fan who looks for deep meanings in every word and time change. I am a huge fan of motorcycles though and when I discovered this book existed I wanted to read it.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the books that took me a long time to read, over a year. Not because the book is bad, not at all. Simply put, this book is <em>amazing<\/em>. But this is a story that is written, at least in the beginning, by a shattered man. Neil lost his 19 year old daughter to a car accident and then his common law wife of 22 years a mere 14 months later. He writes in the probably the most honest voice I&#8217;ve ever read and it brings the pain that is associated with true honesty. I found the emotion conveyed by Neil&#8217;s writing to be so raw and painful, I took breaks in between reading sessions. That&#8217;s not to say the entire book is one big festival of sadness. Healing Road is part of the title after all. And I will say the last chapter made me grin like a fool.<\/p>\n<p>I debated on how much to say about this book and decided on &#8220;not much.&#8221; I just want you to know it exists. I want you to know it should be read. It is a book of incredible sadness and incredible happiness.<\/p>\n<p>It should not be missed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past weekend in my hotel in El Paso Illinois, I finished reading Neil Peart&#8217;s Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road. I should make it clear up front that I am not a huge Rush fan. I like Rush just fine, but am not an avid fan who looks for deep meanings in every&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more navbutton\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/?p=773\">Read More<i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=773"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":803,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773\/revisions\/803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.iowabiker.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}