Play Public Instance
Information about plays
list: List of plays
retrieve: Information about a specific play by ID
GET /v2/plays/382925/?format=api
{ "id": 382925, "uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/382925/?format=api", "airdate": "2019-09-19T10:52:53-07:00", "show": 6371, "show_uri": "https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/6371/?format=api", "image_uri": "http://coverartarchive.org/release/0622f867-2f28-38eb-a295-7c20fd2b2292/7915360989-250.jpg", "thumbnail_uri": "", "song": "What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?", "track_id": "27f04bb4-fed1-30b7-8527-38057e99f0f2", "recording_id": null, "artist": "R.E.M.", "artist_ids": [ "ea4dfa26-f633-4da6-a52a-f49ea4897b58" ], "album": "Monster", "release_id": "0622f867-2f28-38eb-a295-7c20fd2b2292", "release_group_id": null, "labels": [ "Warner Bros. Records" ], "label_ids": [ "c595c289-47ce-4fba-b999-b87503e8cb71" ], "release_date": "1994-09-27", "rotation_status": "Library", "is_local": false, "is_request": false, "is_live": false, "comment": "\"This song is about an incident that took place on October 4, 1986, when the CBS news anchor Dan Rather was attacked on a New York City sidewalk by a crazed man yelling \"Kenneth, what is the frequency.\" The man turned out to be William Tager, who was caught after he killed a stagehand outside of the Today show studios on August 31, 1994. Tager, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison, said he was convinced the media was beaming signals into his head, and he was on a mission to determine their frequencies. <br> <br> When Michael Stipe wrote the lyrics, Tager had not yet been identified as Rather's assailant. He wrote the song after becoming intrigued by the case and the media reaction to it, calling it \"The premier unsolved American surrealist act of the 20th century.\" <br> <br> Tager got out of jail in 2010.\" https://bit.ly/2koa5Lm", "location": 1, "location_name": "Default", "play_type": "trackplay" }