{"podcast":{"title":"Citation Needed","slug":"citation-needed-8016","podcast_index_feed_id":8016,"rss_url":"https://citationpod.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://citationpod.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/b/d/7/0/bd700559fc94e371/CitationNeededLogo_1400x1400.png","author":"Citation Needed Media","episode_count":479,"summary":"The podcast where we choose a subject, read a single Wikipedia article about it, and pretend we're experts. Because this is the internet, and that's how it works now.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/citation-needed-8016"},"episode":{"title":"The Fir-Tree - by Hans Christian Andersen","slug":"the-fir-tree-by-hans-christian-andersen","published_at":"2025-12-31T17:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/citation-needed-8016/the-fir-tree-by-hans-christian-andersen","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/citation-needed-8016","url":"https://citationpod.libsyn.com/the-fir-tree-by-hans-christian-andersen","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/35/clrtpod.com/m/arttrk.com/p/ARTS0/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/citationpod/cn455.mp3?dest-id=518557","summary":"\" The Fir-Tree \" ( Danish : Grantræet ) is a literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The tale is about a fir tree so anxious to grow up, so anxious for greater things, that he cannot appreciate living in the moment. The tale was first published 21 December 1844 with \" The Snow Queen \", in New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Second Collection , in Copenhagen, Denmark , by C.A. Reitzel. One scholar (Andersen biographer Jackie Wullschlager [ de ]) indicates that \"The Fir-Tree\" was the first of Andersen's fairy tales to express a deep pessimism. [1]","meta_description":"\" The Fir-Tree \" ( Danish : Grantræet ) is a literary fairy tale by the Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875). The tale is about a fi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2425,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/citation-needed-8016/episodes/the-fir-tree-by-hans-christian-andersen/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/citation-needed-8016/the-fir-tree-by-hans-christian-andersen.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}