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GET /v2/plays/3636769/?format=api
HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 3636769,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3636769/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-04-02T06:23:34-07:00",
    "show": 66343,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66343/?format=api",
    "image_uri": "https://dn711102.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-346f82ce-7fd7-49dd-a3e9-5f940d72156f/mbid-346f82ce-7fd7-49dd-a3e9-5f940d72156f-20588536632_thumb500.jpg",
    "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711102.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-346f82ce-7fd7-49dd-a3e9-5f940d72156f/mbid-346f82ce-7fd7-49dd-a3e9-5f940d72156f-20588536632_thumb250.jpg",
    "song": "Space (I Believe In)",
    "track_id": "e9955174-ad17-3b2d-bd78-685f7baf5f2d",
    "recording_id": "f9bfba5f-3c8f-4539-bf99-68d78c89d435",
    "artist": "Pixies",
    "artist_ids": [
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    ],
    "album": "Trompe le Monde",
    "release_id": "346f82ce-7fd7-49dd-a3e9-5f940d72156f",
    "release_group_id": "ac9b0a0c-0da6-387f-8c09-65783187346a",
    "labels": [
        "4AD",
        "Elektra"
    ],
    "label_ids": [
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        "873f9f75-af68-4872-98e2-431058e4c9a9"
    ],
    "release_date": "1991-10-08",
    "rotation_status": null,
    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": false,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "“We have a beautiful moonrise and we’re headed right at it,” Reid Wiseman, the Artemis II mission commander, said from the spacecraft as it ascended atop the rocket. -- \"Now it occurred to me as he drove away D equals R times T...\" Did you know that you could learn physics from the Pixies?: https://genius.com/Pixies-space-i-believe-in-lyrics",
    "location": 1,
    "location_name": "Default",
    "play_type": "trackplay"
}