{"id":210,"date":"2010-01-29T20:31:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simmonsmuseum.wordpress.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2010-01-29T20:31:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T20:31:31","slug":"endangered-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"endangered species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I (re)started my interest for Simmons drums back in 2003, I immediately found a white and shiny 5 piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/?area=pads&amp;view=details&amp;id=1&amp;page=&amp;orderby=\">SDSV<\/a> kit  on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\">Ebay<\/a>, located in Switzerland. Although I did not win the auction, I was not too disappointed as Simmons drums regularly appeared there from time to time. Since then I daily check Simmons offers on Ebay in several key areas such as US, UK and of course Germany as well as several websites providing small adds and I must say that the offers became less and less over the years, those ones that I found are mostly very expensive and\/or in poor condition. So sometimes I think that I started to collect at a better period of time. Those of you who are still desperately waiting for an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/?area=pads&amp;view=details&amp;id=1&amp;page=&amp;orderby=\">SDSV<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simmonsmuseum.com\/?area=pads&amp;view=details&amp;id=5&amp;page=&amp;orderby=\">SDX<\/a> need much more patience and &#8230; money. One more reason to keep the remaining gear and all the docs and gossip alive. Simmons, an endangered species&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I (re)started my interest for Simmons drums back in 2003, I immediately found a white and shiny 5 piece SDSV kit on Ebay, located in Switzerland. Although I did not win the auction, I was not too disappointed as Simmons drums regularly appeared there from time to time. Since then I daily check Simmons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.simmonsmuseum.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}