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If I use the API to update a participant (say, to change their status from "Registered" to "Attended"), it seems that the register_date for that participant is changed to show the time of the update.  I'd like to preserve the original register_date, and I can do this by first doing a participant get to store the original register_date, and then passing it as a param in my participant update call.

That requires an extra API call though -- wondering if there is a better way?  Doesn't seem like register_date show be touched on an API update call, unless you explicitly pass a new value in the params.