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GET /v2/plays/3627937/?format=api
HTTP 200 OK
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{
    "id": 3627937,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3627937/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-03-12T01:44:31-07:00",
    "show": 66157,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66157/?format=api",
    "image_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/acf877ef-9d37-49ed-aaa9-f829bfdaae9f/20143521407-500.jpg",
    "thumbnail_uri": "https://coverartarchive.org/release/acf877ef-9d37-49ed-aaa9-f829bfdaae9f/20143521407-250.jpg",
    "song": "Ring the Alarm",
    "track_id": null,
    "recording_id": "ea9796b4-1b8c-40c1-89bc-5fea04e5c760",
    "artist": "Tenor Saw",
    "artist_ids": [
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    ],
    "album": "Ring the Alarm",
    "release_id": null,
    "release_group_id": "ffc78eb9-7ba6-4b13-b52c-e3b5972d3231",
    "labels": [
        "Techniques"
    ],
    "label_ids": [
        "49902de0-8282-4604-a7f2-ca90bd809329"
    ],
    "release_date": "1985-01-01",
    "rotation_status": null,
    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "One of the most important figures in early ragga and dancehall, Tenor Saw (born Clive Bright, 1966, Kingston, Jamaica) is best-known for his 1985 hit \"Ring the Alarm,\" a song based on the then-ubiquitous \"Stalag 17\" rhythm which proved to be one of the biggest -- and catchiest -- hits to come out of reggae's transition into the electronic age.\n--\nBright was struck by an automobile in 1988 and killed when he was just 21 years old.",
    "location": 1,
    "location_name": "Default",
    "play_type": "trackplay"
}