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+[
+  {
+    "exercise_name": "staging-intervention",
+    "started_at": 1786674282.275525,
+    "completed_at": 1786674285.710156,
+    "comments": [
+      "You need to unstage all three attendance files for Josh, Adam, and Mary."
+    ],
+    "status": "Incomplete"
+  },
+  {
+    "exercise_name": "staging-intervention",
+    "started_at": 1786674369.631221,
+    "completed_at": 1786674371.325555,
+    "comments": [
+      "Great work! You have successfully fixed the attendance system!"
+    ],
+    "status": "Completed"
+  },
+  {
+    "exercise_name": "link-me",
+    "started_at": 1786882262.228241,
+    "completed_at": 1786882266.193254,
+    "comments": [
+      "Wrong 'upstream' remote URL"
+    ],
+    "status": "Incomplete"
+  },
+  {
+    "exercise_name": "link-me",
+    "started_at": 1786882366.442018,
+    "completed_at": 1786882368.314844,
+    "comments": [
+      "Great work with using git remote to add an upstream remote!"
+    ],
+    "status": "Completed"
+  },
+  {
+    "exercise_name": "ignoring-somethings",
+    "started_at": 1786885300.826395,
+    "completed_at": 1786885309.248897,
+    "comments": [
+      "You are still ignoring many/file22.txt.",
+      "You are still ignoring why_am_i_hidden.txt. Find where the file is and fix that.",
+      "You are not ignoring ignore_me.txt",
+      "You are not ignoring runaway.txt. Find where the file is and fix that.",
+      "You have not committed the relevant changes yet!"
+    ],
+    "status": "Incomplete"
+  }
+]
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