Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/343105/?format=api
{ "id": 343105, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/343105/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-06-18T20:00:49-07:00", "show": 5721, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/5721/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Letter 5 - Going Home", "track_id": "7461fca4-0db6-4ee3-8864-c8f9852d7f0e", "recording_id": null, "artist": "Rahim AlHaj", "artist_ids": [ "4ba66b37-a9dc-45fe-9c56-8db63a6d53e8" ], "album": "Letters from Iraq", "release_id": "63838c08-dad3-467a-a249-7006ebc84e62", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Smithsonian Folkways" ], "label_ids": [ "a1bc50b9-4ef5-409d-9042-594d653f425a" ], "release_date": "2017-01-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "He was repeatedly imprisoned and tortured for speaking out under Saddam Hussein's regime. Alhaj fled his native country in 1991 first going to Jordan, then Syria. He says that he heard that the Iraqi secret police intended to murder him abroad. In 2000, he came to the United States as a refugee, where he was resettled in New Mexico.\n\nRahim Alhaj plays a stringed instrument called the oud the ancient, Middle Eastern precursor to what eventually became the guitar. See Rahim performing live in the KEXP studio. Recorded March 17, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9qmsX4c78Y", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }