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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def _send_api_message(self, message):
 """Send a Slack message via the chat.postMessage api. :param message: a dict of kwargs to be passed to slacker. """


        self.slack.chat.post_message(**message)
        self.log.debug("sent api message %r", message)