{"podcast":{"title":"77 Flavors of Chicago","slug":"77-flavors-of-chicago-4030002","podcast_index_feed_id":4030002,"rss_url":"https://rss.buzzsprout.com/2267815.rss","website_url":"https://www.77flavorschi.com","image_url":"https://storage.buzzsprout.com/4zyecjxqdgz35q0juknh0e1l4l2v?.jpg","author":"Sara Faddah & Dario Durham","episode_count":288,"summary":"We've visited all 77 of Chicago's historic community areas and taught you the history and tasted amazing food along the way! Join us, Sara Faddah and Dario Durham, as we continue to tell Chicago's tasteful history. New episodes every Monday. Support this podcast: https://77flavorschi.buzzsprout.com","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/77-flavors-of-chicago-4030002"},"episode":{"title":"A Porter’s Life: Riding the Rails of Black Labor History","slug":"a-porter-s-life-riding-the-rails-of-black-labor-history","published_at":"2026-02-09T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/77-flavors-of-chicago-4030002/a-porter-s-life-riding-the-rails-of-black-labor-history","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/77-flavors-of-chicago-4030002","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2267815/episodes/18645247-a-porter-s-life-riding-the-rails-of-black-labor-history.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2267815/episodes/18645247-a-porter-s-life-riding-the-rails-of-black-labor-history.mp3","summary":"A Porter’s Life: Riding the Rails of Black Labor History The morning of April 6th 1907, Ross Wood decided to fill out the application to become a Pullman Porter. He was 23 years old, and until this point he has only ever worked as a servant; a “houseboy”. Wood was born to parents that were enslaved not too long before he was born. He thought about how if he had been born just 20 years earlier, he too would’ve been a slave. He wanted to be a porter. It was a respected job among his black peers...","meta_description":"A Porter’s Life: Riding the Rails of Black Labor History The morning of April 6th 1907, Ross Wood decided to fill out the application to become a Pullman…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3601,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/77-flavors-of-chicago-4030002/episodes/a-porter-s-life-riding-the-rails-of-black-labor-history/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/77-flavors-of-chicago-4030002/a-porter-s-life-riding-the-rails-of-black-labor-history.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}