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GET /v2/plays/3542797/?format=api
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{
    "id": 3542797,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3542797/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2025-08-21T07:20:40-07:00",
    "show": 64346,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64346/?format=api",
    "image_uri": "https://ia801404.us.archive.org/13/items/mbid-7aa2e984-cbe6-3bc0-b9c7-9de370d87e11/mbid-7aa2e984-cbe6-3bc0-b9c7-9de370d87e11-1587535686_thumb500.jpg",
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    "song": "Born on a Train",
    "track_id": "b1f7e851-8fe6-3057-99b3-631b541bf4d4",
    "recording_id": "6683cf72-698b-46b9-adbc-f0c4f63b80b6",
    "artist": "The Magnetic Fields",
    "artist_ids": [
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    ],
    "album": "The Charm of the Highway Strip",
    "release_id": "7aa2e984-cbe6-3bc0-b9c7-9de370d87e11",
    "release_group_id": "a5db12b8-5db8-3d07-b224-b357bfd66b97",
    "labels": [
        "Merge Records"
    ],
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    ],
    "release_date": "1994-04-18",
    "rotation_status": null,
    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "My dad passed away from peritoneal cancer in 2020, and it’s so wonderful you are doing this today because it would have been his 77th birthday. Ever since his childhood in rural Indiana watching steam trains pass by his backyard, he loved trains and would often stop to watch a whole train go by. Can you please play Born on a Train by Magnetic Fields for him today?\nThank you so much, Sarah on Beacon Hill",
    "location": 1,
    "location_name": "Default",
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}