The data I get back does not contain any start date fields in my events objects. Is there any way to obtain the start date using the new REST API functionality that came out in version 4.5 of the Events Calendar?
The API is self-documenting: /wp-json/tribe/events/v1/doc — which you can, in turn, plug into http://petstore.swagger.io/ to give a visual way of exploring it.
Please let me know if you have any follow-up questions on this topic.