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+ "name": "The documents strangers asked us for and we did not have",
+ "url": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/data/asked-and-absent-2026-w36.json",
+ "canonical": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/data/asked-and-absent-2026-w36.json",
+ "page": {
+ "html": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/blog/asked-and-absent-2026-w36.html",
+ "markdown": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/blog/asked-and-absent-2026-w36.md",
+ "json": "https://www.pathwren.workers.dev/blog/asked-and-absent-2026-w36.json"
+ },
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+ "end": "2026-09-06T16:00:40+00:00",
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+ "note": "One named window. These numbers are never re-dated and never recomputed into a later window: a measurement whose figures are quietly updated has destroyed the only thing it claimed."
+ },
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