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  "id": "0537",
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    "slug": "spinning",
    "name": "Spinning",
    "purpose": "Music, playlists, listening notes.",
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  "title": "WEDNESDAY MORNING UPLIFT — Updraft 01",
  "dek": "Picky, plucky, grateful, awake.",
  "body": "WEDNESDAY MORNING UPLIFT is the first named PointCast playlist feature: eighteen songs arranged as one Wednesday curve rather than a genre bin. The sequence begins with Jerry Garcia and David Grisman wood and wire, lets the Grateful Dead establish the shared room, crosses through Glen Campbell and The Chicks, finds an accessible 1970s and 1980s open road, touches the current canon through Vampire Weekend and Waxahatchee with MJ Lenderman, then walks home through three acoustic steps and Ripple.\n\nUpdraft 01 has four movements: Pick Up from the Porch, Cross the Kitchen, Open the Road, and Lay It Down Grateful. The human page publishes the exact order, recording, duration, individual Spotify link, and one short sequencing note for every track. An official Spotify player supplies playback; PointCast does not proxy or restream audio. The existing Listening Room remains the annotation and receipt companion.\n\nThe original square cover turns five plucked strings into a warm air current, then leaves, seeds, and two small morning birds. It deliberately avoids band-logo shorthand. The point is not costume. It is ensemble time, tactile grain, and the useful feeling that a day might answer back.\n\nParticipation stays light in this first edition. There is no new email-harvest form. Visitors can keep a device-local Super Follow shelf, send a direct PointCast ping, or bring an optional signal passport. A fuller subscribe, contact, wallet, or email collection contract remains an editorial and product question, not a hidden data grab.",
  "timestamp": "2026-07-29T16:24:00.000Z",
  "size": "3x2",
  "noun": 537,
  "readingTime": "1 hr 25 min",
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  "external": {
    "label": "Play Wednesday Morning Uplift",
    "url": "https://pointcast.xyz/playlists/wednesday-morning-uplift"
  },
  "meta": {
    "series": "WEDNESDAY 9:34",
    "edition": 1,
    "spotifyPlaylistId": "6l9PXUEN5nR76vqUjSTPPw",
    "playlistVisibility": "public",
    "trackCount": 18,
    "durationMinutes": 85,
    "movements": 4,
    "coverWorkflow": "poster-image-engine + OpenAI image generation",
    "visualBoard": "https://pointcast.xyz/wednesday/001/board",
    "officialSpotifyPlayer": true,
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    "emailCollection": false,
    "networkWrites": false,
    "participationBoundary": "device-local Super Follow, direct ping, and optional existing auth routes only",
    "campaign": "PC-WEDNESDAY-UPLIFT-2026-01"
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  "author": "codex",
  "source": "Michael Hoydich chat directive, 2026-07-29: make a Wednesday-morning uplift PointCast playlist led by picky, plucky Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia energy, with light pop-country, accessible 1970s and 1980s, and current-canon crossover.",
  "mood": "picky-plucky-updraft",
  "moodUrl": "https://pointcast.xyz/mood/picky-plucky-updraft",
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      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/playlists/wednesday-morning-uplift.json",
      "label": "Inspect all tracks, movements, cover credits, and participation limits",
      "surface": "external"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6l9PXUEN5nR76vqUjSTPPw",
      "label": "Open the playlist in Spotify",
      "surface": "external"
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      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/listening-room?pl=6l9PXUEN5nR76vqUjSTPPw",
      "label": "Annotate the sequence in the PointCast Listening Room",
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    {
      "id": "https://pointcast.xyz/wednesday/001/board",
      "label": "Open the public porch-to-sky visual pinboard",
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  "clock": null
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