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-The side effect of nnot including hypermedia in our representations is that clients must hard-code URIs to navigate the API. This leads to the same brittle nature that predated the rise of e-commerce on the web. It signifies that our JSON output needs a little help.
+The side effect of not including hypermedia in our representations is that clients must hard-code URIs to navigate the API. This leads to the same brittle nature that predated the rise of e-commerce on the web. It signifies that our JSON output needs a little help.
 
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