I keep getting this error Objects are not valid as a React child {} If you meant to render a collection of children, use an array instead

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This is currently how my code looks

import React from 'react';
import './App.css';

class App extends React.Component {
 
  state = {
  apiData: []
  }
 
  render() {   
    
  console.log('api data is')
    return (
      <div>
        <center>
        <h1 id="title">hello something</h1></center>
        <h1 id="date">{this.state.apiData.title}</h1>
      </div>
    )
  }
 
  componentDidMount() {
    fetch('http://www.mocky.io/v2/5dece3d333000052002b9037')
      .then(response => response.json())
      .then(data => {
        this.setState({
          apiData: data
        })
      })        
      console.log("component fetched data")
  }
}
 
export default App

I get this error when I try access something that has a value but when I do this

     <h1 id="date">{this.state.apiData.date}</h1>

It works

not too sure how to fix as everything I have seen thus far is for data they have created through a const or let as opposed to fetching data from an API

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