In early Spring of 2019, I had a moment of clarity. Not only was I going to be working on a decoupled Drupal project, but we were going to be fulfilling one of the promises of a decoupled architecture. Our team was going to be replacing a back-end system consisting of Drupal 7, Java, and MongoDB with a single Drupal 8 site. The React website at universalkids.com (and the only consumer of this API, now and in the future) was only going to change by changing its base API URL.