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 `getInitialState()` executes exactly once during the lifecycle of the component and sets up the initial state of the component.
 
 #### Updating state
-When the component is first created, we want to GET some JSON from the server and update the state to reflect the latest data. We're going to use jQuery to make an asynchronous request to the server we started earlier to fetch the data we need. It will look something like this:
+When the component is first created, we want to GET some JSON from the server and update the state to reflect the latest data. We're going to use jQuery to make an asynchronous request to the server we started earlier to fetch the data we need. The data is already included in the server you started (based on the `comments.json` file), so once it's fetched, `this.state.data` will look something like this:
 
 ```json
 [