Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/3595287/?format=api
{ "id": 3595287, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3595287/?format=api", "airdate": "2025-12-24T08:47:12-08:00", "show": 65463, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/65463/?format=api", "image_uri": "", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "Christmas Wrapping", "track_id": "41a3458d-030d-4dd9-9f72-b04db3e1ff4c", "recording_id": "1152baff-564f-4331-8d06-5dc0cfece8e5", "artist": "The Waitresses", "artist_ids": [ "8acd46ce-3c10-402e-9ede-676b31c837cb" ], "album": "A Christmas Record", "release_id": "62f939f0-6745-4cab-b015-8d6ee3931b3d", "release_group_id": "a5e7339d-a41a-3255-bb5f-b786251654af", "labels": [ "ZE Records" ], "label_ids": [ "9474b0cc-8065-457c-865d-463f2383ce00" ], "release_date": "1981-11-01", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "The first playing of \"Christmas Wrapping\" is the official beginning of the holiday season. Hope you heard it early this year!\n\nSongwriter Chris Butler wrote the song in August of 1981, assembling it from assorted unused riffs. He finished the lyrics in a taxi cab on the way to the recording studio. The lyrics came from Butler's hatred of Christmas: \"Everybody I knew in New York was running around like a bunch of fiends. It wasn't about joy. It was something to cope with.\"", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }