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GET /v2/plays/3638196/?format=api
HTTP 200 OK
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{
    "id": 3638196,
    "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3638196/?format=api",
    "airdate": "2026-04-05T13:59:27-07:00",
    "show": 66374,
    "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66374/?format=api",
    "image_uri": "https://dn711301.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-6ab8e549-13bc-39c0-b947-423ada5ee844/mbid-6ab8e549-13bc-39c0-b947-423ada5ee844-29746657102_thumb500.jpg",
    "thumbnail_uri": "https://dn711301.ca.archive.org/0/items/mbid-6ab8e549-13bc-39c0-b947-423ada5ee844/mbid-6ab8e549-13bc-39c0-b947-423ada5ee844-29746657102_thumb250.jpg",
    "song": "The Heart’s a Lonely Hunter",
    "track_id": "bbe4737b-2fb8-371f-90fd-ec28423312ac",
    "recording_id": "855fd3cd-296a-444b-86db-fefbe5e3e4a3",
    "artist": "Thievery Corporation feat. David Byrne",
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    ],
    "album": "The Cosmic Game",
    "release_id": "6ab8e549-13bc-39c0-b947-423ada5ee844",
    "release_group_id": "46a4c350-5d39-39e5-8ce8-d94dda896412",
    "labels": [
        "Eighteenth Street Lounge Music"
    ],
    "label_ids": [
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    ],
    "release_date": "2005-02-22",
    "rotation_status": "Library",
    "is_local": false,
    "is_request": true,
    "is_live": false,
    "comment": "Perhaps this is a reference to the great 1940 novel by Carson McCullers. The phrase actually comes from the poem \"The Lonely Hunter\", published in 1896 by Fiona MacLeod, which was revealed upon his death to have been the pen name of the Scottish writer William Sharp: https://meador.org/2019/05/27/the-heart-is-a-lonely-hunter/\n\nThievery Corporation will be at Mountain Winery in Saratoga on June 5th, the Uptown Theatre in Napa on June 6th, and the FIFA Fan Festival in Vancouver on July 5th.\n\nhttps://thieverycorporation.com/",
    "location": 1,
    "location_name": "Default",
    "play_type": "trackplay"
}