{"podcast":{"title":"Civics 101","slug":"civics-101-54793","podcast_index_feed_id":54793,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/TPG3969164236","website_url":"https://www.siriusxm.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/d683a36a-cf9e-11f0-89fc-433c0f9951eb/image/733a4d6d2b12ac514d244b79a0318b90.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"NHPR","episode_count":362,"summary":"How do landmark Supreme Court decisions affect our lives? What does the 2nd Amendment really say? Why does the Senate have so much power? Civics 101 is the podcast about how our democracy works…or is supposed to work, anyway.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/civics-101-54793"},"episode":{"title":"How making people wait sparked the American Revolution","slug":"how-making-people-wait-sparked-the-american-revolution","published_at":"2026-05-19T17:22:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/civics-101-54793/how-making-people-wait-sparked-the-american-revolution","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/civics-101-54793","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/tcQd6Q6C0RUUlOHq1Ytj/mgln.ai/e/51/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG1742877591.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/tracking.swap.fm/track/tcQd6Q6C0RUUlOHq1Ytj/mgln.ai/e/51/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/TPG1742877591.mp3","summary":"Once upon a time, American British colonists were separated from power, decision-making, culture and information by thousands of miles and many weeks. As Helena Yoo-Roth puts it, time flowed evenly outward from the homeland. This is the story of waiting, longing and realizing that time might just be on our side as we approached the American Revolutionary War. Helena Yoo-Roth is the author of the forthcoming American Timelines: Imperial Communications, Colonial Time-Consciousness, and the Coming of the American Revolution. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","meta_description":"Once upon a time, American British colonists were separated from power, decision-making, culture and information by thousands of miles and many weeks. As…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2621,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/civics-101-54793/episodes/how-making-people-wait-sparked-the-american-revolution/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/civics-101-54793/how-making-people-wait-sparked-the-american-revolution.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}