{"podcast":{"title":"American Diplomat","slug":"american-diplomat-9204","podcast_index_feed_id":9204,"rss_url":"https://americandiplomat.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"https://ldns.asu.edu/american-diplomat-podcast","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/a/4/b/da4bea43850d0cace5bbc093207a2619/213294_American_Diplomat_Podcast_Logo_FINAL.png","author":"Dan Rosenblum and Laura Bennett","episode_count":466,"summary":"American Diplomat goes behind the scenes to hear real stories from diplomats who lived newsworthy events overseas. Experience the Cuban revolution, Central American insurgencies, the end of apartheid and more through the eyes of those who were there. A project of Arizona State University.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-07T18:19:18.776093+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/american-diplomat-9204"},"episode":{"title":"A Diplomatic Holiday To You!","slug":"a-diplomatic-holiday-to-you","published_at":"2025-12-25T11:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/american-diplomat-9204/a-diplomatic-holiday-to-you","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/american-diplomat-9204","url":"https://americandiplomat.libsyn.com/a-diplomatic-holiday-to-you","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/americandiplomat/Christmas_2025_Stories_part_one.mp3?dest-id=590599","summary":"For the holidays, we asked diplomats to share their tales. We have Ken Quinn whose young kids' Christmas in Austria was saved by a team including the Chattanooga Choo Choo, a muslim Santa and a temporary North Korean \"daugther\". We have Peter Pham who, on his way home for the holidays from his post in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was diverted to Paris due to the US government shutdown, which turn of events led him to ensure the safety return of a recent Congolese Nobel Prize winner. And we have Kent Logsdon who shares a moving tale of singing in an ambassadors' version of a barbershop quartet the song War Is Over , when indeed, war had only just ended in that country. Have a lovely holiday season, everyone!","meta_description":"For the holidays, we asked diplomats to share their tales. We have Ken Quinn whose young kids' Christmas in Austria was saved by a team including the Chat…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1577,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/american-diplomat-9204/episodes/a-diplomatic-holiday-to-you/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/american-diplomat-9204/a-diplomatic-holiday-to-you.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}