Looking for some help with cookie auth

Hello!

I am building a little plugin to teach myself about the API, and I’m getting stuck when it comes to authentication.

I am doing localize script:

$nonce = wp_create_nonce( 'wp_json' );
...
$params = array(
...
    'nonce' => $nonce,
);
wp_localize_script( 'sjf_tjra', 'sjf_tjra', $params );

And then in my JS:

nonce   = sjf_tjra.nonce;

// Send the data to the server.
var ajaxData = {
        ...
	nonce:   nonce
};

// Make the ajax call.
$.get( sjf_tjra.ajaxurl, ajaxData, function( ajaxResult ) {
        ...
}

And then back in my php, in my ajax callback function, I am doing

$nonce = $_REQUEST[ 'nonce' ];

...
$headers = array(
	'X-WP-Nonce' => $nonce,
);

$args = array(
	...
        'headers' => $headers,
);
$request = wp_remote_request( $url, $args );

If I var dump args, there, I get

array(3) {
[“method”]=> string(4) “POST”
[“body”]=> array(1) {
[“data”]=> object(stdClass)#31 (2) {
[“title”]=> string(9) “hello 124”
[“content_raw”]=> string(19) “this is the content”
}
}
[“headers”]=> array(1) {
[“X-WP-Nonce”]=> string(10) “2c43c116bb”
}
}
0

But my response from the API is

[{“code”:”json_cannot_create”,”message”:”Sorry, you are not allowed to post on this site.”}]

Sorry if this is hard to follow. I”m trying really hard to obey the docs at https://wp-api.org/guides/authentication.html#cookie-authentication but I must be missing something.

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