{"podcast":{"title":"Minnesota Today","slug":"minnesota-today-413993","podcast_index_feed_id":413993,"rss_url":"https://feeds.publicradio.org/public_feeds/mpr-news-update","website_url":"https://www.mprnews.org/","image_url":"https://img.apmcdn.org/1f56da009a58910c3568f259c9aa670783c09471/square/12e558-20220913-minnesota-today-podcast-art-2000.jpg","author":"Minnesota Public Radio","episode_count":100,"summary":"Minnesota Today from MPR News brings you the most important stories from around the state. All on your schedule. Get updated on the latest news in about five minutes, every weekday morning and evening.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T20:19:24.782595+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/minnesota-today-413993"},"episode":{"title":"Minnesota wildfires continue, creating record high air quality readings","slug":"minnesota-wildfires-continue-creating-record-high-air-quality-readings","published_at":"2026-07-17T20:51:45+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/minnesota-today-413993/minnesota-wildfires-continue-creating-record-high-air-quality-readings","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/minnesota-today-413993","url":"https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2026/07/17/minnesota-wildfires-continue-creating-record-high-air-quality-readings","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/mgln.ai/e/5/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/play.publicradio.org/podcast/o/minnesota/podcasts/minnesota_today/2026/07/17/mntoday_V1_ryan_20260717_64.mp3?awCollectionId=apm-MNTdy&awEpisodeId=01KXRXJY2A4AK0DK8325W72E1K","summary":"The wildfires burning in the northern regions of the state are incredibly destructive, but experts say they're a natural and important part of Minnesota's ecosystem. They say the focus shouldn't be on eliminating wildfires but instead on preventing them from turning catastrophic. And air quality readings are breaking state record after state record, due to the wildfire smoke. Those stories and more in today’s evening update from MPR News. Hosted by Elena See. Music by Gary Meister.","meta_description":"The wildfires burning in the northern regions of the state are incredibly destructive, but experts say they're a natural and important part of Minnesota's…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":327,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/minnesota-today-413993/episodes/minnesota-wildfires-continue-creating-record-high-air-quality-readings/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/minnesota-today-413993/minnesota-wildfires-continue-creating-record-high-air-quality-readings.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}