{"id":8795,"date":"2025-11-05T06:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/?post_type=moa_podcasts&#038;p=8795"},"modified":"2025-11-03T12:57:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:57:30","slug":"great-joy-and-great-sorrow-rits","status":"publish","type":"moa_podcasts","link":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/moa_podcasts\/great-joy-and-great-sorrow-rits\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Joy and Great Sorrow (RITS)"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8795\" class=\"elementor elementor-8795\" data-elementor-post-type=\"moa_podcasts\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-707bd74b e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"707bd74b\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-55c7d06a elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"55c7d06a\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n<p>Motorcycle riding can bring great joy and great sorrow. A close friend of mine, Tom Moffat, recently died from injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident. I\u2019m mourning his loss and examining why we decide to ride with the inherent danger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I interviewed Tom for the podcast last summer, please give a listen to that episode as well to get to know him a little.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe class=\"lazyload\" title=\"Embed Player\" data-src=\"https:\/\/play.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/38895825\/height\/192\/theme\/modern\/size\/large\/thumbnail\/yes\/custom-color\/f06823\/time-start\/00:00:00\/hide-playlist\/yes\/download\/yes\/font-color\/000000\" height=\"192\" width=\"100%\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"true\" mozallowfullscreen=\"true\" oallowfullscreen=\"true\" msallowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Tom-Moffat-RITS-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"404\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8075 lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Tom-Moffat-RITS-crop.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"404\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8075 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Tom-Moffat-RITS-crop.jpg 480w, https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Tom-Moffat-RITS-crop-300x253.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript>\n\n\n<p><em>Riding Into The Sunset<\/em>\u00a0is brought to you by the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmwownersnews.com\/\">BMW Motorcycle Owners of America<\/a>\u00a0and hosted by journalist &amp; author Ed Housewright. Reach us by email at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:podcast@bmwmoa.org?subject=RITS\">podcast@bmwmoa.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motorcycle riding can bring great joy and great sorrow. A close friend of mine, Tom Moffat, recently died from injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident. I\u2019m mourning his loss and examining why we decide to ride with the inherent danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8076,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"podcast":[78],"class_list":["post-8795","moa_podcasts","type-moa_podcasts","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","podcast-riding-into-the-sunset"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/moa_podcasts\/8795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/moa_podcasts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/moa_podcasts"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/moa_podcasts\/8795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"podcast","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bmwmoa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/podcast?post=8795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}