* intern
* start
* move
* common caching
* use constant for slep
* works
* add gating back
* clean up
* more
* match cache logic
* hate this circular
* not needed since sync
* no need for lock?
* even qt had something like _load_initial_state for tests, keep
* clean up
* clean up
* clean up
* loading json as string works, else it will fail to parse json, catch that and log, and next api call will overwrite
* move over firehose
* clean up
* fix test
* no
* flip
* more
* match qt
* consistent
* clean up
* cmt
* fix test!