Abby,
Thank you so much for the detailed response.
Looking at my log I see several instances in which the item I am querying has been "updated". Is there any way to get more details on what was updated?
Here is an example for one of these requests:
"/sharing/rest/content/users/aevenpaz_Cadasta/5af53f1fca33476bae843120dde4b9bc/items/dfd35c50be40479faa29cc6fc12d65b0/update"