{"podcast":{"title":"Vital Voices","slug":"vital-voices-6695622","podcast_index_feed_id":6695622,"rss_url":"https://www.wets.org/podcast/vital-voices/rss.xml","website_url":"https://www.wets.org/podcast/vital-voices","image_url":"https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/ea7e13e/2147483647/strip/false/crop/3000x3000+0+0/resize/2000x2000!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4c%2Fb9%2Fb0cb2ceb4ecd9367b9decfa6ff82%2Fwets-vital-voices-graphic-3000x3000.jpg","author":"Fred Sauceman (895wets@gmail.com)","episode_count":20,"summary":"Vital Voices features interviews with a wide variety of people talking about the subjects they are most passionate about in life.","last_synced_at":"2026-06-19T14:17:29.874503+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vital-voices-6695622"},"episode":{"title":"Alex Fraga","slug":"alex-fraga","published_at":"2026-03-25T15:51:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vital-voices-6695622/alex-fraga","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vital-voices-6695622","url":"https://www.wets.org/podcast/vital-voices/2026-03-26/alex-fraga","audio_url":"https://cpa.ds.npr.org/s374/audio/2026/03/vitalvoicespodcastepisode130.mp3","summary":"With recent reports of power blackouts in Cuba, we revisit an interview we did last year with Alex Fraga, owner of Hemingway's Cuba in Asheville, North Carolina. His father, the late Tony Fraga, was forced to flee Cuba because of the policies of dictator Fidel Castro.","meta_description":"With recent reports of power blackouts in Cuba, we revisit an interview we did last year with Alex Fraga, owner of Hemingway's Cuba in Asheville, North Ca…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1080,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/vital-voices-6695622/episodes/alex-fraga/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/vital-voices-6695622/alex-fraga.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}