{"id":279,"date":"2015-11-06T13:01:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-06T13:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/?page_id=279"},"modified":"2015-11-06T13:22:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T13:22:48","slug":"drums-and-bands","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/?page_id=279","title":{"rendered":"Drums and Bands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wedding_cheshire038.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-313 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wedding_cheshire038-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"wedding_cheshire038\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wedding_cheshire038-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/wedding_cheshire038-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve owned sets of drums since I was 12 years old, when my father in a fit of madness bought me a *very* budget kit one\u00a0Christmas. &#8220;It&#8217;ll be in the attic by Easter&#8221; he told my mother. How wrong he was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Tommy-Hawk-72-Xmas-4_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-311\" src=\"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Tommy-Hawk-72-Xmas-4_2-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"Tommy Hawk 72 Xmas 4_2\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Tommy-Hawk-72-Xmas-4_2-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Tommy-Hawk-72-Xmas-4_2.jpg 989w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since then I&#8217;ve played in many bands and gradually worked my way up to pub drummer grade (this operates\u00a0somewhere outside the conventional musical grading system in the same way that pub drummers operate somewhere outside anything approaching music).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCF0843.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-300\" src=\"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCF0843-300x271.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF0843\" width=\"300\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCF0843-300x271.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/DSCF0843-1024x925.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I love drums and for the fun of it will be posting photos of my kits over the years here. This is very likely for my entertainment alone but will remind me of all the fun I have had, sitting in my favourite &#8216;office&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0952.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-301\" src=\"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0952-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0952\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0952-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_0952-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve owned sets of drums since I was 12 years old, when my father in a fit of madness bought me a *very* budget kit one\u00a0Christmas. &#8220;It&#8217;ll be in the attic by Easter&#8221; he told my mother. How wrong he was. Since then I&#8217;ve played in many bands and gradually worked my way up to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/?page_id=279\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drums and Bands<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-279","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/279\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}