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    "slug": "hari-mari-dunes",
    "name": "Hari Mari Dunes",
    "category": "Essentials",
    "blurb": "The first and only flip flops that feel perfect from day one. No break-in period needed. No blisters. The memory-foam toe post is the whole trick. Highly recommended.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/hari-mari-dunes.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "Navy Hari Mari flip flops resting on wet sand with surf breaking behind them",
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      "affiliate": true
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Flip Flops"
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    "slug": "bullet-journal",
    "name": "BuJo Bullet Journal",
    "category": "Practice",
    "blurb": "The official BuJo edition. Numbered pages and a real index are the difference between a notebook and a system I actually keep up with.",
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    "imageAlt": "",
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "BuJo"
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    "slug": "sharon-salzberg",
    "name": "Sharon Salzberg",
    "category": "Teachers",
    "blurb": "Sharon Salzberg has taught me so much about meditation, equanimity, and lovingkindness.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/sharon-salzberg.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "Sharon Salzberg smiling, seated in front of a red and gold shrine",
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      "url": "https://www.sharonsalzberg.com/",
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
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    "slug": "rocket-appartamento",
    "name": "Rocket Appartamento",
    "shortName": "Appartamento",
    "category": "Food & Drink",
    "blurb": "The everyday machine. Small enough to live on the counter.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/rocket-appartamento.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "A Rocket Appartamento espresso machine and Niche grinder on a wooden counter, with a cappuccino in a grey Rocket cup in the foreground",
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      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09V8GF12N",
      "label": "See the Appartamento",
      "affiliate": true
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
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  {
    "slug": "rocket-r58",
    "name": "Rocket R58 Cinquantotto",
    "shortName": "R58",
    "category": "Food & Drink",
    "blurb": "Dual boiler, so espresso and steam never wait on each other. The daily machine.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/rocket-r58.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "Close-up of the polished steel Rocket Espresso Milano R Cinquantotto badge on the machine's cup tray",
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      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B8TDHZKS",
      "label": "See the R58",
      "affiliate": true
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
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    "slug": "niche-coffee-grinder",
    "name": "Niche Zero",
    "category": "Food & Drink",
    "blurb": "Single dose, near-zero retention.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/niche-zero.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "Close-up of a white Niche Zero coffee grinder, its chrome badge reading NICHE, with a portafilter holder beneath the chute",
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      "url": "https://www.nichecoffee.co.uk/products/niche-zero?variant=39263828410499",
      "label": "See the Niche Zero",
      "affiliate": false
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Niche Zero",
    "imagePosition": "50% 40%"
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    "slug": "verve-coffee",
    "name": "Verve Coffee",
    "category": "Food & Drink",
    "blurb": "Where the beans come from. Roasted up the coast in Santa Cruz, and consistent enough that I stopped shopping around.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/verve-coffee.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "A paper Verve Coffee Roasters cup on a beach with the ocean and pier behind it",
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      "url": "https://www.vervecoffee.com/",
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
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    "slug": "meg-mccraken",
    "name": "Meg McCraken",
    "category": "Teachers",
    "blurb": "One of my teachers from yoga teacher training.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/meg-mccraken.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "A wide circle of grey mats and red bolsters set up around a candlelit centrepiece of flowers and stones",
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      "url": "https://www.megmccraken.com/",
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Meg",
    "imagePosition": "50% 50%"
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  {
    "slug": "apple-watch-ultra-2",
    "name": "Apple Watch Ultra 2",
    "category": "Essentials",
    "blurb": "Tracks the swim, steps, and sleep without me thinking about them, and the battery outlasts the trip. The one piece of tech I hardly ever take off.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/apple-watch-ultra-2.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "Apple Watch Ultra 2 with a bright orange Ocean Band, worn on a wrist, showing a watch face with activity rings",
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      "label": "See the Ultra 2",
      "affiliate": true
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
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    "shortName": "Watch"
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  {
    "slug": "swimming",
    "name": "Swimming",
    "category": "Practice",
    "blurb": "You may not believe this, but I did not learn to swim until I was 21. Now, I love the water so much.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/swimming.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "Fins, a pull buoy, a kickboard, hand paddles and a red water bottle laid out on the pool deck beside blue water",
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      "url": "/the-practice",
      "label": "See The Practice",
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Swimming",
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  {
    "slug": "travel",
    "name": "Travel",
    "category": "Practice",
    "blurb": "Travel photos from around the world. See some of my favorite places I've visited.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/travel.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "An illustrated glowing blue planet against a starry sky, cropped from the header art on the Travel Photos page",
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      "url": "/travel-photos",
      "label": "See the map",
      "affiliate": false
    },
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
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    "slug": "human-design",
    "name": "Human Design",
    "category": "Practice",
    "blurb": "A framework that gave me language for how I actually work best. I built a tool for reading your own chart.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/human-design.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "The white Human Design key mark on a warm brown background",
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      "url": "/human-design",
      "label": "Get your chart",
      "affiliate": false
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Human Design"
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    "slug": "airpods-pro-3",
    "name": "AirPods Pro 3",
    "category": "Essentials",
    "blurb": "They still feel magical when you put them on and go for a walk or ride.",
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    "imageAlt": "",
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      "label": "See the AirPods",
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "AirPods"
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    "slug": "iphone-17-pro",
    "name": "iPhone 17 Pro — Cosmic Orange",
    "category": "Essentials",
    "blurb": "The camera always in my pocket and ready to go.",
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    "imageAlt": "",
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      "label": "See the iPhone",
      "affiliate": true
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "iPhone"
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  {
    "slug": "claude",
    "name": "Claude",
    "category": "Toolkit",
    "blurb": "My partner-in-crime that distracts me but helps me build most of this site more quickly than I could code it myself.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/claude.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "The Claude wordmark beside its orange starburst mark",
    "link": {
      "url": "https://claude.ai/",
      "label": "claude.ai",
      "affiliate": false
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Claude",
    "imagePosition": "50% 50%"
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  {
    "slug": "cursor",
    "name": "Cursor",
    "category": "Toolkit",
    "blurb": "The editor I like to write in currently.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/cursor.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "The black Cursor logo on a white background",
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      "url": "https://cursor.com/",
      "label": "cursor.com",
      "affiliate": false
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Cursor"
  },
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    "slug": "ghostty",
    "name": "Ghostty",
    "category": "Toolkit",
    "blurb": "This is my go-to terminal that is fast and gets out of the way.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/ghostty.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "The Ghostty ghost logo drawn in blue ASCII characters on a near-black background",
    "link": {
      "url": "https://ghostty.org/",
      "label": "ghostty.org",
      "affiliate": false
    },
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Ghostty",
    "imagePosition": "50% 50%"
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    "slug": "strava",
    "name": "Strava",
    "category": "Toolkit",
    "blurb": "Where every swim, walk, ride, and yoga practice ends up. If it's not in Strava it didn't happen!",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/strava.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "The Strava logo on the brand's orange",
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      "url": "https://www.strava.com/",
      "label": "strava.com",
      "affiliate": false
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Strava",
    "imagePosition": "50% 50%"
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  {
    "slug": "health-auto-export",
    "name": "Health Auto Export",
    "category": "Toolkit",
    "blurb": "Gets Apple Health data out of the phone and somewhere I can actually use it. It quietly feeds my fitness tracking.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/health-auto-export.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "The Health Auto Export app icon with a heart and export arrow",
    "link": {
      "url": "https://www.healthyapps.dev/",
      "label": "healthyapps.dev",
      "affiliate": false
    },
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Health"
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    "slug": "blue-bottle-craft-matcha",
    "name": "Blue Bottle Craft Matcha",
    "category": "Food & Drink",
    "blurb": "For the afternoons that require a different kind of boost. Grassy and sweet rather than bitter.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/blue-bottle-craft-matcha.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "A tin of Blue Bottle Craft Matcha, ceremonial grade, on a kitchen counter",
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      "url": "https://bluebottlecoffee.com/us/eng/product/craft-matcha",
      "label": "bluebottlecoffee.com",
      "affiliate": false
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Matcha",
    "imagePosition": "50% 45%"
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    "slug": "blue-bottle-giant-steps",
    "name": "Blue Bottle Giant Steps",
    "category": "Food & Drink",
    "blurb": "The fudgy and chocolatey coffee that is perfect for a pour over coffee.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/blue-bottle-giant-steps.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "A Blue Bottle pour-over brewing class, with a V60-style dripper and glass carafe on a scale",
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      "label": "Taste Giant Steps",
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Giant Steps",
    "imagePosition": "50% 35%"
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    "slug": "parkit-eclipse-undertow",
    "name": "Parkit Eclipse — Undertow",
    "category": "Outdoors",
    "blurb": "A chair that packs like a backpack and reclines like furniture. It is the reason a beach afternoon turns into a beach evening.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/parkit-eclipse-undertow.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "The Parkit Eclipse chair in the Undertow colourway",
    "link": {
      "url": "https://parkitmovement.com/products/eclipse-undertow",
      "label": "parkitmovement.com",
      "affiliate": false
    },
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Beach Chair",
    "imagePosition": "50% 50%"
  },
  {
    "slug": "aesop",
    "name": "Aesop",
    "category": "Essentials",
    "blurb": "The products that support my skincare routine.",
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    "imageAlt": "",
    "link": {
      "url": "https://www.aesop.com/",
      "label": "aesop.com",
      "affiliate": false
    },
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Aesop"
  },
  {
    "slug": "code-newsletter",
    "name": "The Code",
    "category": "Toolkit",
    "blurb": "A weekday email on AI that stays useful. One of the few newsletters I actually open the morning it lands.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/code-newsletter.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "The Code newsletter wordmark, with a cursor icon standing in for the O",
    "link": {
      "url": "https://codenewsletter.ai/",
      "label": "codenewsletter.ai",
      "affiliate": false
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Newsletter",
    "imagePosition": "50% 50%"
  },
  {
    "slug": "procreate",
    "name": "Procreate",
    "category": "Toolkit",
    "blurb": "The most important iPad app where most of my digital art actually is created. A one-time purchase that pays for itself the first day.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/procreate.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "The Procreate multicolor brush-stroke logo on a black background",
    "link": {
      "url": "https://procreate.com/",
      "label": "procreate.com",
      "affiliate": false
    },
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Procreate"
  },
  {
    "slug": "art-with-flo",
    "name": "Art with Flo",
    "category": "Teachers",
    "blurb": "Amazing art teacher with free and paid tutorials for Procreate on iPad.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/art-with-flo.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "The Art with Flo leaf logo in green",
    "link": {
      "url": "https://artwithflo.com/",
      "label": "artwithflo.com",
      "affiliate": false
    },
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Art w/ Flo",
    "imagePosition": "50% 50%"
  },
  {
    "slug": "hydro-flask",
    "name": "Hydro Flask",
    "category": "Essentials",
    "blurb": "My favorite water bottle. Actually I have three of them. Ice survives a whole day in the car.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/hydro-flask.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "A red Hydro Flask sitting on poolside concrete next to a swimming pool",
    "link": {
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FJZZCD9Y",
      "label": "See the bottle",
      "affiliate": true
    },
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Hydro Flask"
  },
  {
    "slug": "saunabox-pulse-pro",
    "name": "SaunaBox Pulse Pro",
    "category": "Practice",
    "blurb": "A portable infrared sauna with red light, kept in the corner of the garage. Twenty minutes in it resets a whole day.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/saunabox-pulse-pro.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "A black portable SaunaBox infrared sauna glowing red from its interior red lights, set up in a garage",
    "imagePosition": "50% 40%",
    "link": {
      "url": "https://saunabox.com/products/pulse-pro-portable-ir-sauna-with-redlights",
      "label": "saunabox.com",
      "affiliate": false
    },
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-20",
    "shortName": "Sauna"
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    "slug": "yoga",
    "name": "Yoga",
    "shortName": "Yoga",
    "category": "Practice",
    "blurb": "I completed the 200-hour hatha teacher training at Wanderlust. What a life-changing experience.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/yoga.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "Jason outdoors in sunglasses and a tank top, a rolled yoga mat under his arm, mountain village buildings behind him",
    "link": null,
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-22",
    "imagePosition": "50% 40%"
  },
  {
    "slug": "yoga-nidra",
    "name": "Yoga Nidra",
    "shortName": "Yoga Nidra",
    "category": "Practice",
    "blurb": "Yoga Nidra is the art of conscious deep relaxation. In this state of consciousness the body is asleep but the mind is fully awake and active in the healing process. It can restore the proper flow of energy through the body and lets both body and mind heal themselves.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/yoga-nidra.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "An illustrated lotus of layered violet, rose and gold petals glowing against a deep indigo ground",
    "link": null,
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-22",
    "imagePosition": "50% 50%"
  },
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    "slug": "meditation",
    "name": "Meditation",
    "shortName": "Meditation",
    "category": "Practice",
    "blurb": "This is a daily practice that helps reset everything and shouldn't be skipped.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/meditation.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "Three frosted crystal singing bowls with their strikers, set on the floor within reach",
    "link": null,
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-22",
    "imagePosition": "50% 45%"
  },
  {
    "slug": "agave-attenuata",
    "name": "Agave Attenuata",
    "shortName": "Agave",
    "category": "Outdoors",
    "blurb": "My favorite succulent — I have more of them than I will admit to.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/agave-attenuata.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "Looking down into the centre of an Agave attenuata, its broad grey-green leaves spiralling out from the rosette",
    "imagePosition": "50% 50%",
    "link": null,
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-22"
  },
  {
    "slug": "ooni-koda-16",
    "name": "Ooni Koda 16",
    "shortName": "Ooni",
    "category": "Outdoors",
    "blurb": "Two minutes to a proper stone-baked pizza, in the back yard. There is a learning curve but it's more than worth it.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/ooni-koda-16.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "A freshly baked pizza with mushrooms, onion and spinach on the stone of an Ooni pizza oven",
    "imagePosition": "50% 50%",
    "link": {
      "url": "https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085LGV57D",
      "label": "See the Koda 16",
      "affiliate": true
    },
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-22"
  },
  {
    "slug": "kombucha",
    "name": "Kombucha",
    "shortName": "Kombucha",
    "category": "Food & Drink",
    "blurb": "I like to brew my own.",
    "image": "/assets/favorites/kombucha.jpg",
    "imageAlt": "A large glass brewing vessel of amber kombucha with a spigot, actively fermenting on a kitchen counter",
    "imagePosition": "50% 40%",
    "link": null,
    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-23"
  },
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    "slug": "ipad-pro-13",
    "name": "iPad Pro 13″ + Pencil Pro + Magic Keyboard",
    "shortName": "iPad Pro",
    "category": "Essentials",
    "blurb": "512GB, Cellular, Space Black, standard glass. The iPad, the Apple Pencil Pro, and the Magic Keyboard together are what actually replaced my laptop for most of the day.",
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      "label": "See the iPad Pro",
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    "audio": null,
    "added": "2026-08-24"
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