{"id":2743,"date":"2011-04-06T09:26:58","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T13:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=2743"},"modified":"2011-04-06T09:26:58","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T13:26:58","slug":"nick-mason-signed-cymbal-helps-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2011\/04\/nick-mason-signed-cymbal-helps-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Mason-signed cymbal helps charity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd drummer <strong>Nick Mason <\/strong>has donated a piece of his drum kit \u2014 and his signature \u2014 to help raise money for a U.K. charity.<\/p>\n<p>When you make a donation to sponsor drummer <strong>Mike Dolbear<\/strong>&#8216;s run in the Halstead &amp; Essex Half Marathon May 8, you&#8217;ll get a chance at winning a Paiste 2000 Reflections 14-inch thin crash cymbal used by Mason on Floyd&#8217;s 1987 album &#8220;A Momentary Lapse of Reason&#8221; and signed by Mason.<\/p>\n<p>Dolbear, co-founder of drummers&#8217; Web site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikedolbear.com\">mikedolbear.com<\/a>, will run just more than 26 miles to benefit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teenagecancertrust.org\"><strong>Teenage Cancer Trust<\/strong><\/a>, devoted to improving the lives of children and young adults with cancer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Every \u00a32.50 of sponsorship will earn one chance to win, so \u00a325 will earn 10 chances,&#8221; Dolbear explains. &#8220;There no maximum donation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you have made a donation, please send an email to charityrun@mikedolbear.com with your name, contact details and the amount that you have donated. When I have completed the run, Nick Mason will pull a name out of the hat and the lucky winner will receive the cymbal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The winner will also receive a certificate of authenticity and a copy of &#8220;Momentary Lapse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As of this writing, Dolbear has raised \u00a3390.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/Mike-Dolbear\">Make your donation online<\/a>. And <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mikedolbear\">follow Dolbear on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason has donated a piece of his drum kit \u2014 and his signature \u2014 to help raise money for a U.K. charity. When you make a donation to sponsor drummer Mike Dolbear&#8216;s run in the Halstead &amp; Essex Half Marathon May 8, you&#8217;ll get a chance at winning a Paiste 2000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nick-mason","category-personnel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2743"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2749,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2743\/revisions\/2749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}